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bough, usually of a coniferous tree ; eggs numerous, 0.54 X 0.42, creamy Avhite, sparsely speckled 

 with brown, chiefly about the larger end. 



R. c. grinnelli. (To Joseph Grinnell.) Sitkan Kinglet. Sooty-olive above, blackening 

 along sides of the vermilion patch ; throat and 

 breast dusky gray; belly yellowish- white. Bill 

 acute, with wide base. Sitka, Alaska; a dark 

 coast form. W. Palmer, Auk, Oct. 1897, p. 

 399. 



R. obscu'rus. (Lat. obscurus, obscure, daik.) 

 Dusky Kinglet. Eesembling the comuKin 

 Ruby-crown, but with darker and more plumbe- 

 ous shade of upper parts, and some slight diffei- 

 ences in proportions. A dark insular form from 

 Guadalupe Island, Lower California. R. c. oh- 

 sciirus RiDGW., Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Teir., 

 Apr. 1876, p. 184; Coues, Key, 2d ed., 1884, 

 p. 260; R. obscurus Ridgw., Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 July, 1877, p. 59; A. 0. U. Lists, 1886-95, No. 

 750. 



(Subgenus Regulu.s.) 



R. satra'pa. (Gr. a-arpdnTji, Lat. satrapes, a ruler; alluding to the bird's golden crown. Figs. 

 124, 125.) Golden-crested Kinglet. ^, adult: Upper parts olive-green, more or less 



Fig. 124. — Golden create J Kinglet. (After Audubon.) 



Fio. 1-5. — Golden-crested Kinglet. 



bright, sometimes rather olive-ashy, always brightest on rump; under parts dull asliy- or 



