BIRDS <»K NORTH AND MIDDLK A.MKRICA. 705 



than the middle toe, covered uiiteriorly witli a few indistinct scutelhi; 

 toes scutellate, the lateral ones nearly e(iual and free; hind toe stouter; 

 daws weak, compressed, arched, acute. 



•Tlumao-e very loose and tufty. Bristles at the hase of the bill, a 

 small decomposed feather covering- the nostril, ^^'ino•s of ordinary 

 lenoth, the third and fourth primaries longest. Tail of 12 feathers, 

 emaroinate. 



"Bill l)lack. Iris hazel. Feet yellowish brown. The jreneral color 

 of the upper parts is dull grayish olive. Forehead, lores, and a lin(> 

 behind the eye, black. A semilunai- )>and of the same on the top of 

 the head, the middle space vermilion. Wings and tail dusky, edged 

 with greenish yellow. Secondary coverts tipped with grayish white. 

 Under parts grayish white. 



•'Length, 4i inches; extent of wings, 0; bill along the ridge nearly 

 one-third, along the gap nearly one-half; tarsus, three-fourths." 

 (Audubon's original description.) 



Regidm curicrn Audibox, Orn. Bioj;., i, 1832, 288, pi. 55 (Fat land Ford, on 

 Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1812; type lost) ; Synopsis, 1839, 82; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., ii,'l841, 163, pi. 131.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 

 Can., i, 1832, 416.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1895, 333, "Hypothetical List," no. 26. 

 Jilcgnlus] CHvierii Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 175.— Hellmavk, Ticrreich, 18 Lief., 



1903, 12. 

 Jirgnlns cuvki-i Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 228; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 163; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 66.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist'. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 75, pi. 5, fig. 7.— Ridgway, Noni. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 32.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 82, footnote.— 

 Ame'rican Ornitiiologksts' Union, Check List, 1886, 357, "Hypothetical 

 List," no. 26. 

 Rlegulusl nivieri Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 568. 

 C[_orthylio'\ cuvieri Cab atsi is, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, 83, footnote. 

 ISylvia] cuvieri Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 216, no. 3070. 



REGULUS CALENDULA CALENDULA (Linnaeus). 

 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 



Adah male in .spruu/ (Uid xaimnei-. — Xhox^ plain grayish olive 

 anteriorly, gradually assuming a more decided olive hue on back, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts more greenish olive; a large, concealed 

 fan- or wedge-shaped patch of clear vermilion ivd (rarely varying to 

 orange-red or salmon color) beginning at center of crown and over- 

 lappbig occiput; wings and tail dusky, with light yellowish olive or 

 oliv(>-yellow edgings, the middle wing-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 pale grayish olive, the greater coverts more broadly tipped with dull 

 white (forming two bands across wing), the tertials broadly edged with 

 dull whitish; secondaries crossed by a l)asal I)roa(l band of bhn-kish, 

 partly concealed l)y greater coverts; a broad whitish orbital ring, inter- 

 rupted on upper eyelid, the eyelids themselves black: loral region pale 

 grayish; sides of head otherwise grayish olive, like sides of pileum, 

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