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gardens. Wherever they are found they are always a welcome 

 addition to our winter bird life. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — From southern Alaska and central Canada to Guatemala. 



Breeding range. — In so far as our present knowledge goes the breed- 

 ing range of the golden-crowned kinglet is discontinuous. The west- 

 ern breeding range is north to southern Alaska (Kodiak, Kenai 

 Peninsula, Montague Island, Chitina Moraine, and Glacier) ; northern 

 British Columbia (the Atlin region probably, and Fort Nelson) ; 

 central Alberta (Grand Prairie and Glenevis; single birds have been 

 recorded from 40 miles below Athabaska Landing and Point La Brie 

 on Lake Athabaska). East to central Alberta (Glenevis); western 

 Montana (Flathead Lake, Anaconda, Mystic Lake, and the mountains 

 near Kirby) ; western Wyoming (Yellowstone National Park and Sheep 

 Mountains); western Colorado (Walden, Montrose, and San Juan 

 County); and central northern New Mexico (Cowles and Pecos 

 Baldy) . South to northern New Mexico (Pecos Baldy) ; southeastern 

 Arizona (White Mountains, Graham Mountains, and Santa Catalina 

 Mountains); and southern California (San Bernardino and San 

 Jacinto Mountains). West to California (San Jacinto Mountains) 

 and north through the Sierra Nevada (Mount Breckenridge, Trout 

 Meadows, and Yosemite Valley) and the Coast Range (Santa Cruz 

 Mountains, Mount Sanhedrin, and Trinity Mountains); the coast 

 forests of Oregon (Yaquina Bay and Garabaldi) ; Washington (Point 

 Chehalis, Ozette Lake, and Neah Bay); coastal region and islands of 

 British Columbia (Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island; Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, and Porcher Island); and the coastal region of southern 

 Alaska (Forrester Island, Sitka, Yakutat Bay, and Kodiak Island). 



The eastern range is north probably to central or northern Manitoba, 

 since the species is a rare but fairly regular migrant through the Red 

 River Valley and southern Manitoba; it has been reported to breed 

 at Aweme, is a regular migrant but not breeding at Lake St. Martin, 

 has been found in August and September at The Pas; a specimen was 

 collected in June on the lower Echimamish River and it has been found 

 in June of three different years near Churchill. It breeds north to 

 central Ontario (Lake Nipigon, Abitibi Lake, Algonquin Park, and 

 Ottawa); southern Quebec (St. Margaret, Kamouraska, Esquimaux 

 Point, and Anticosti Island), and central Newfoundland (South 

 Brook and Brigus). East to Newfoundland (Brigus and Placentia); 

 Nova Scotia (Halifax and Barrington); Maine (Machias and Ells- 

 worth); and rarely eastern Massachusetts (Lynn and Stoughton). 

 South to Massachusetts, rarely (Stoughton); New York (Catskill 

 Mountains) ; northern Pennsylvania (Pocono Mountains and Warren) ; 



