32 SINGIXC; RIRDS— OSCIXES. 



Regulus sati'apa, Lichtrnstein. 



THE GOLDEN-CEESTED WREN. 



lirquhm sn^m/iri, LifiiTEXSTEiN', VtTzcicli. Doubl. 1823, Xo. 410. (Quotes Pnriissatrfijin, II- 

 i.iGEn, probably a niuscnm name.) — Bonap., List, 18.3S. In. Conspectus, IS.'iO, 291. — 

 AtiD., Synopsis, 18-39, 82. In. Birds Amer. II. 1841, 16.'j; pi. 132. — Baird, P. R. 

 Rep. IX. Birds, 227. — Coopkk and Suckley, XII. iii Zool. of AV. T. 174. 

 SyMa rcguhis, Wilson, Am. Orn. I. 1808, 126; pi. viii. f. 2. (Xot of Latbani.) 

 Reijuhis trirohr, Xuttali., Man. I. 1832, 420. — AuD., Orn. Biog. II. 1834, 476 ; pi. 183. 



Sr. Char. Alinve olive groon, bri^rhtcst on flip outer edges of the wing; tail feathers 

 tinged with lirownish gray toward the head. Forehead, a line over the eye, and a spaec 

 beneath it, white. E.xterior of the erown before and laterally black, embracing a central 

 patch of orange red, encircled by gamboge yellow. A dusky space around the eye. 



Eastern variety Western variety. 



Wing coverts with two yellowish white bands, the posterior covering a similar band on the 

 quills, succeedeil by a broad dusky one. Under parts dull whitish. Length about 3.80 to 

 4 inches; extent, 6.2.5; wing, 2.25; tail, 1.80. Iris brown, bill black, tarsi brown, feet 

 yellow. 



Hah. Xorthcni parts of United States from Atlantic to Pacific. 



I fouud a few of thi.s species iu September, 1863, at the summits of the 

 Sierra Nevada, above seven thousand feet elevation in lat. 39°, wliich is the 

 most southern point they have been found at on this coast. In tlie forests 

 near the Columbia tliey are alnmdant, and a few remain in the valleys during 

 summer. Probably tliey migrate through the whole of the Sierra Nevada in 

 winter, and far towards San Francisco. Their nest and eggs have not yet 

 been described, but a nearly allied European species builds toward the ex- 

 tremity of the branches of fir-trees, the nest being spherical with a small 

 opening at the side ; formed of moss and lichen, with a soft lining, and the 

 eggs from six to twelve. While migrating, this species associates witli R. 

 calendula, and has similar habits. Professor Baird remarks (Ilex. Amer. 

 Birds, 65), that, as in several other instances, the Western specimens of tliis 



