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This kinglet winters abundantly all through the Southern States, 

 where it is much commoner than the goldencrown. C. J. Maynard 

 (1896) writes: 



The Ruby-crowned Kinglets are the most common birds of Florida during 

 winter, arriving from the North about the first of December, scattering through 

 the hammocks all over the state, even as far south as Key West, and they may 

 occasionally be found in company with other birds, but are generally independent; 

 indeed, I think they seldom pay any attention to the movements of even their 

 own companions; each pursues a course agreeable to itself. They can therefore 

 hardly be called gregarious at this season, being equally numerous in every 

 wooded locality, unless we choose to consider all which are in Florida as constitut- 

 ing one vast flock. They move about among the luxuriant growth of trees and 

 shrubs in a manner which plainly indicates that they are at home. They seem to 

 be always busily engaged in searching for insects upon the branches, yet will 

 pause to gaze inquisitively at a stranger. They are not noisy at such times, and 

 although very abundant, one who is not a naturalist would scarcely notice them, 

 for they come without bustle, remain in the seclusion offered by the hammocks, 

 quietly pursuing their avocations, then, by the middle of March, retire northward 

 as silently as they came. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North America from northern Canada to southern Mexico; 

 occasionally to Guatemala. 



Breeding range. — The ruby-crowned kinglet breeds north to north- 

 ern Alaska (Kobuk River; reported to breed to the edge of the willows 

 a few miles south of Point Barrow; specimens from Point Barrow and 

 Cape Halkett); northwestern Mackenzie (Mackenzie River, 100 

 miles below Fort Good Hope; Grandin River, and Fort Resolution); 

 northern Saskatchewan (north shore of Lake Athabaska, 8 miles 

 northeast of Moose Island, and the Churchill River) ; northern Mani- 

 toba (Reindeer Lake, Oxford House, and Churchill) ; northern Ontario 

 (Moose Factory); central Quebec (Fort George, Lake Mistassini, 

 Mingan, and Little Mecatina); and eastern Labrador (Makkovik). 

 East to eastern Labrador (Makkovik, Rigolet, and Paradise River) ; 

 Newfoundland (St. Anthony, Twillingate, and White Bear River); 

 and Nova Scotia (Baddeck). South to Nova Scotia (Baddeck, 

 Halifax, and Yarmouth) ; Maine (Calais, possibly Ship Harbor, and 

 Scarboro Beach) ; possibly New Hampshire (Holderness) ; north- 

 western Massachusetts (Savoy) ; probably northern New York 

 (Mount Whiteface); southern Ontario (Guelph, Sault Ste. Marie, 

 Port Arthur, and Kenora) ; northern Michigan (Mackinac Island, 

 Newberry, and Iron County); southern Manitoba (Winnipeg and 

 Aweme) ; central Saskatchewan (Hudson Bay Junction and Big 

 River); central southern Montana (Fort Custer and the Big Horn 

 Mountains) ; central Wyoming (Sheridan, Parco, and Laramie) ; the 

 eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado (Estes Park, 



