JFor Ceatl)er0 and ^tudent^ 



How to Name the Birds 



STUDIES OF THE FAMILIES OF PASSERES 

 BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



SEVFATH PAPER 



Family 17. Kinglets and Gnatcatchers. Family Sylviid<p 



Ran^c. — Ornithologists differ greatly in their treatment of the three 

 subfamilies of birds included in this famil\- by the American Ornithologists" 

 Union's Check-List, that is, the Sylviifue, or Old World Warblers, number- 

 ing about one hundred species, only one of which reaches this country (the 

 Willow Warbler, in western Alaska) ; the Rc^^ulina', or Kinglets, with 

 seven species, three of which are American, and the Poliopti/ino', or Gnat- 

 catchers, with some fifteen species, all of which are American. Two King- 

 lets and one Gnatcatcher are found east of the Mississippi. 



Season. — The Kinglets, representatives of an (^Id World family, as might 

 be supposed, are northern, migrating southward in September and October. 





KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS. I aniily Syhii,U. lOiir third natural si/.c) 



Bluc-eray Gnalcatchrr Riiby-crowncil Kinglrt GoMen-crowncd Kinelri 



The (jiiatcatchcr is southern, wintering from tin- (iiilf States southward and 

 breeding as far north as middle New Jersey. 



Color. — Kinglets are olive -green or Warbler green, as it is called, above, 

 lighter below; with a bright patch on the crown, which is wanting in the 

 female and young Ruby-crown. Gnatcatchers are gray above, white below. 



Extrrtuil Characiftf. — Kinglets and Cinatcatchers have the slender bill 



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