WESTERN BIRDS Kinglet 



GENUS REGULUS : GOLDEN- 

 CROWNED KINGLET. (Eastern.) 



Golden-crowned Kinglet: Regulus satrapa satrapa. 



FAMILY— KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS. 



SUBFAMILY— REGULIN.E: KINGLETS. 



The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a beautiful little bird, 

 scarcely four inches long, which occurs in eastern North 

 America, breeding from north of the United States south 

 in the Rocky Mountains to northern Arizona and New 

 Mexico, and to Michigan, New York, and mountains 

 of Massachusetts, and in the higher Alleghenies south 

 to North Carolina; wintering from Iowa, Ontario and 

 New Brunswick to northern Florida, Tamaulipas, and 

 northeastern Mexico. 



In its olive upper parts and dingy white unders it 

 resembles the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, but the brilliantly 

 striped crown is a distinctive marking. The center of 

 the crown is a bright cadmium orange, bordered by a 

 yellow stripe, which is in turn bordered by a black 

 stripe which goes across the front, forming a letter U on 

 the crown. In front of this black U is a white stripe 

 which extends across the forehead and over each eye. 

 A short black mark runs back from each eye; the wings 

 have two whitish bars. The female lacks the central 

 orange stripe, it being all yellow between the black U. 

 The immature birds are without the crown patch, or 

 black stripe. 



In most parts of the east this bird is a migrant. 

 Banded together in sociable flocks they rove about dur- 

 ing the fall and winter months, sometimes in company 

 with Titmice, Nuthatches, and other small species, going 



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