Ruby-crowned Kinglet 511 



at 11,000 on July 25th in San Juan co., and concluded that it must 

 breed at about this elevation, while Aiken recently obtained a female, 

 now in the Colorado College Museum, at Clyde, in Teller co., 9,400 

 feet, on January 12th, proving that a few birds at least winter in the 

 State. One taken by Gale in August in Boulder co. is now in Mr. 

 Felger's collection, another was recently shot in the same district by 

 Betts on February 6th, out of a flock of eight. Finally, Morrison states 

 that he observed it three times in La Plata co. 



Habits. — The Golden-crouTied I^nglet resembles its 

 cousin the Ruby-crowned in its habits, but has rather 

 a different call-note — a fine high " Ti, ti," only audible 

 to practised ears. The nest, generally pensile, composed 

 of green mosses, lined with fine bark strips, rootlets and 

 feathers, is placed in coniferous trees from six to sixty 

 feet up. The eggs, nine or ten, are creamy-white, 

 blotched and speckled with pale wood-brown, and rarely 

 faint lavender ; they measure "55 x '44 (Brewster, 

 "Auk," v., p. 337). 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Regulus calendula. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 749 — Colorado Records — Allen 72, pp. 161, 

 174 ; Aiken 72, p. 195 ; Batty 73, p. 35 ; Trippe 74, p. 229 ; Henshaw 

 75, p. 164 ; Ingersoll 76, p. 77 ; Scott 79, p. 91 ; Minot 80, p. 225 ; 

 Drew 81, pp. 87, 85, p. 15 ; Stone 83, p. S3 ; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 154 ; 

 Beckham 87, p. 123 ; Morrison 88, p. 71 ; McGregor 97, p. 39 ; Cooke 

 97, pp. 123, 222 ; Keyser 02, p. 65 ; Henderson 03, p. 108 ; 09, p. 241 ; 

 Gihnan 07, p. 195 ; Warren 08, p. 26 ; F.ockwell 08, p. 179. 



Description. — Male — Above olive-greyish anteriorly, more greenish 

 posteriorly ; a wedge-shaped patch of scarlet from the middle of the 

 crown to the nape, sometimes more or less concealed ; wings and tail 

 dusky, edged with olive-yeUow and with dull white tips to the wing- 

 coverts, forming a double wing-band ; a whity ring round the eye ; 

 below dull olive-grey, darkest on the breast and flanks ; iris and bill 

 dark brown, legs dusky-brown. Length 3-75 ; wing 2-50; tail 1-75 ; 

 culmen -30; tarsus -71. 



The female resembles the male, but lacks the red crown-patch ; 

 in the fall the plumage is a somewhat brighter shade of olive ; young 

 birds resemble the female, but the wing-bands are tinged with buffy. 



Distribution. — Breeding in the northern parts of North America 

 from Alaska and Labrador to Michigan and Quebec, and further south 



