176 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



320 [748] Regulus satrapa satrapa Licht. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



Abundant transient visitor, common in winter, very rare in summer. Sep- 

 tember 16 to May 24 (summer). 



The May 24 record is of a bird found singing in Lynn in 1907, by Mr. H. 

 W. Wright. 



The song is far inferior to that of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet and suggests a 

 feeble and languid Black-poll Warbler. 



321 [749] Regulus calendula calendula (Linn.). 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 

 Common transient visitor. April 7 to May 28 ; September 17 to November 26. 



I have three November records for the County. The November 26 record is 

 for 1885, by Mr. Damsell^ at Amesbury. 



The courtship song of this bird heard on the breeding-grounds in Newfound- 

 lond and Labrador is alone worth the long journey. It is there heard at its best 

 and is given with an ecstasy rarely attained in this part of the world during the 

 migrations. Songs in endless variations follow each other with hardly any pauses 

 from these tiny singers in the spruce forests. On one occasion I watched one 

 singing within six feet, and it was evident that he was at the same time making 

 a display of his ruby crown. 



322 [751] Polioptila caerulea caerulea (Linn.). 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 



Accidental visitor from the South. 



Li addition to the two records in the original Memoir, I have three others, 

 viz. : one watched from a distance of fifteen feet in a garden in Salem in May, 

 1897, by Miss Annie L. Warner; one seen in the Ipswich dunes on August 24, 

 1912, by Mrs. Lidian E. Bridge- and Miss E. D. Boardman; one seen at Ipswich 

 on September i, 1919, by Mr. C. B. Floyd. 



1 Allen, G. M. Auk, vol. 30, p. 28, 11)13. 



2 Bridge, Mrs. L. E. Auk, vol. 29, p. 546, 1912. 



