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Sp. Cii. Above dark greenish olive, passing into bright olivo green on the rump and outer edges of the wings and tail- 

 Crown with a largo concealed pateh of scarlet feathers, which are white at the base. The under parts ore grayish white tinged 

 with pale olive yellow, ospeciully behind. A ring round the eye, two binds on the wing coverts, and the exterior of the inner 

 tertials white. Young without the red on the crown. Length, 4.50 ; wing, 2.33 ; tail, 1.85. 



Ilab. — United States from .Vtlanlic to racifio. 



The fomale differs very little in color. It is quite probable that the species does not attain 

 the red patch in the crown until the second year, as the spring migrations of the species always 

 embrace a considerable ntiinber with the head perfectly plain. 



TJhe autumnal plumage difVers from the vernal in a lighter olive tinge to the feathers of the 

 back, while the under parts are of a pale brownish yellow, brightest on the belly. 



There is a concealed yellowish bar across the quills immediately beneath the tips of the 

 greater coverts, succeeded by an exposed bar of blackish, more or less conspicuous in different 

 specimens. There is also some concealed white on the feathers of the rump. 



I am unable to perceive any tangible difference between eastern and western specimens. 



List of specimens. 



REGULUS SATRAPA, L i c h t . 



Golden-crested Wren. 



Rt^xdM satrapa, Licbtenstein, Verzeich. Doubl. 1823, No. 410. (Quotes Poms salrapa, Illiger, probably a museum 

 name.)— BovAP. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 291.— Ann. Synopsis, 1839, 82.— Ib. Birds 

 Amer. II, 1841, 1G5 ; pi. 132. 



Syhia regulus, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 126 ; pi. viii, f. 2. (Not of Latham.) 



Regulus crislatus, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 50 ; pi. cvi. (Not of Ray.) Bdnap. Obs. AVilson, 1825.— 

 Ib. Synopsis, 1828, 91. 



JUguUis Iricolor, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 420.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 476 ; pi. 183. 



