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"While spring's lovely season, serene, dewy, warm, 

 "The green face of eartli, and the pure blue of heav'n, 



" Or love's native music have influence to charm, 

 " Or sympathy's glow to our feelings is' giv'n, 



•' Still dear to each bosom the Blue-bird shall be; . 



" His voice, lilie the tlirillings of hope, is a treasure; 

 "For, thro' bleakest storms if a calm he but see, 



'' He comes to remind us of sunshine and pleasure I " 



Note. The European (Stone- chat or " Wheat-ear" (Saxicola 

 cenantlie) occurs in Northern North America as a wanderer, 

 and is included by Dr. Coues in his " List of the Birds of New 

 England." In his "Key" he describes it as follows (the 

 length being 5-6 inches?): "Adult: — ashy gray ; forehead, 

 superciliary line and under parts white, latter often brownish- 

 tinted ; upper tail coverts white, wings and tail black, latter 

 with most of the feathers white for half their length ; line from 

 nostril to eye, and broad band on side of head, black ; bill and 



feet, black ; young everywhere cinnamon-brown, paler below ; 



****** " 



§3. Sylviidae. (See §i.) 

 I. REGULUS 



(A) CALENDDLUS. Ruhy-CTOivnecl '■'"Wren" Ruhy-crowned 

 « Kinglet:'^ 



(Common in Massachusetts in April and October.) 



(a). 4-4^ inches long. Above, greenish olive ; below, white, 

 impure and yellow-tinged. Wings with two white bars, and 

 (like the tail) with light edgings. E3'e-ring, impure white. 

 Crown in mature specimens with a scarlet j)atcli^ wanting in 

 immature birds (and females ? i^) ; moreover, in some speci- 

 mens, small and orange-colored. 



(6). I believe that there is no record of the nest and eggs 



^ In the original "are," evidently through inadvertance. 



'■' These birds have been called '' Kinglets " from their scientific name {Heguliis), 

 meaning " little king." 



'" I have seen in spring pairs of these birds, highly colored, and apparently fully 

 matured, of whom the males had a brilliant carmine patch, and the females no 

 patch at all, or none evident. 



