THE OSPREY. 



An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted Exclusively to the Interests of 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



GALESBURG, ILL., FEBRUARY, 1897. 



Vol. 1. No. 6. 



$1.00 A Year. 



INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF A GULL IN FLIGHT. 



The Kinglets and Their Distribution. 



BY EDWIN IRVINE HAINES. 

 (Read before the Linncpatt Societv of N'ezu }'ork.) 



NEXT to the Humming- birds in 

 size ( of our Eeistern birds ) are the 

 King-lets; there are two varieties, 

 distinguished by their brig-ht crests, the 

 (jolden-crowned, and the Ruby-crowned. 

 In ornitholog-ical books the Golden- 

 crowned King-let is said to be a common 

 winter resident of our Central Eastern 

 States summering- from the Northern 

 States,northward, and southward along- the 

 Alleg-hany Mountains to North Carolina, 

 thoug-h it is said to occasionally breed in 

 the larg-e pine swamps of Pennsylvania. 

 The Rubv-crown, as far as known, is 



said to be a transient visitant or a mi- 

 g-rant, presumably a resident during- the 

 summer months of hig-h Northern reg-ions, 

 and wintering- from South Carolina, and 

 Southern Illinois, south to Guatemala. 

 'Tt is the exception that proves the rule,'' 

 however, for recently I found the Golden- 

 crowned King-let an abundant summer 

 resident at Stamford, Delaware County, 

 New York, situated in the Northwestern 

 Catskill Mountains, about 175 miles 

 north of New York City. Mr. E. P. 

 Bicknell records Golden-crowned King-- 



