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REGULUS AURICAPILLUS. THE GOLD-CROWNED 



KINGLET. 



GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. TIDLEY GOLDFINCH. MARYGOLD FINCH. 



Motacilla Regulus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 338. 



Sylvia Regulus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 548. 



Golden-crested Wren. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Roitelet ordinaire. Sylvia Regulus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 229. 



Regulus cristatus, III. 157. 

 Gold-crested Regulus. Regulus auricapillus. Selb. Illustr. I. 229. 

 Regulus aurocapillus. Gold-crested Regulus. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 113. 



Plumage of the upper 'parts light yellowish-ht'oicn, of the lower 

 pale hrownish-grey ; the top of the head silky and reddish- orange, 

 with a longitudinal band on each side of black feathers, of which 

 the inner tvebs of the iiiner are lemon-yellow ; the cheeks yellow- 

 ish-grey. Female similar, but ti'ith the croicn lemon-yellow. 



Male. — The Gold-crowned Kinglet, which is the smallest 

 of our native birds, agrees in all respects with the generic 

 character given in the preceding pages. The oesophagus is an 

 inch and a half in length ; the stomach elliptical, five twelfths 

 long, and four in breadth ; the intestine eight inches long, and 

 the coeca only half a twelfth. The plumage is blended, and 

 extremely soft and tufty, the feathers on the back and sides 



