GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET 



OUR SMALLEST WINTER GUEST 



{Figs. 62, 63) 



E think It wonderful that the Hum- 

 mingbird, our smallest bird, should 

 go as far south as Central 

 America to spend the winter. But 

 is it not equally wonderful that 

 the Golden-crowned Kinglet, next 

 smallest in size, should brave the winters of New 

 England? 



He has a body no larger than the end of your 

 thumb, but it is covered with so thick a coat of 

 feathers that Golden-crown is doubtless warm and 

 comfortable sleeeping in the depths of an evergreen 

 even when the thermometer registers below zero. 



Golden-crown belongs to a small but hardy group 

 of birds, all of which live in the more northern 

 parts of the world. Golden-crown himself is not 

 found in summer south of northern New England, 

 except on the higher, colder parts of the Alleghe- 

 nies, on which he is found as far south as North 



Carolina. 



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