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etc. They are much smaller than the Turdidse and Saxicolidse, 

 with much more slender, depressed bill, longer rictal bristles, etc. 

 The short outer primary, with the ])rimaries ten in number, distin- 

 guish them from the Sylvicolidse. 



Of the two subfamilies, Regulinae are more nearly related to the 

 Saxicolidae, and Poliojiiilinee to the Paridae ; and have, by many 

 authors, been respectively thus assigned. I agree with Cabanis, 

 however, in uniting them into one family. They may thus be dis- 

 tinguished : — 



Regulinae. Wings longer than the emarginate tail. Tarsi booted or with- 

 out scutellar divisions. 



Polioptilinae. Wings about equal to the graduated tail. Tarsi with dis- 

 tinct scutellae. 



REGULUS, Cuv. 



Regulus, Cuv. "Lemons d'Anat. Comp. 1799-1800." (Type Motacilla 



regulus, Linx.) 

 Reguloides, Blyth. 1847. (Type "72. prorer/u/us, Pall.," Gkav.) 

 Phyllohasileus, Cab. Mus. Hein. I, 1850, 33. (Type Motacilla calen- 



dxila, Linn.) 



Regulus satrapa. 



Regulus salrapa, Light. Verz. 1823, no. 410. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1S.59, 



227.— ScLATER, P. Z. S. 1857, 212 (Orizaba).— B^dekek, Cab. Jour. 



IV, 33, pi. 1, fig. 8 (eggs, from Labrador). — Pk. Max. Cab. Jour. 



1858, 111. — Cooper & Scckley, P. R. R. R. XII, ii, 1859, 174 



(winters in W. Territory). 

 Sylvia regulus, Wils. ; Regulus cristatus, Vieill. ; R. tricolor, Nutt., Aud. 

 Figures: Aud. B. A. II, pi. 132.— Ib. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 183.— Vieill. 



Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. cvi. 

 Hab. United States and the Eastern Provinces. 



This species is found throughout the entire region of the United 

 States and the Provinces, though hitherto not noticed in the fur 

 countries. On the Pacific slope it is abundant from the Puget 

 Sound country (where it is found in winter), south to Fort Crook ; 

 but no specimens are in the collection from more southern points, 

 not even Fort Tejon, nor any from the middle table land or Rocky 

 Mountain region anywhere. 



The western specimens are much brighter and more olivaceous 

 above, especially on rump and tail, than the eastern, and may 

 possibly constitute a different race, or variety olivaceus. Sciater 

 records it as found at Orizaba, Mex.^ This may, however, prove to 

 be a different species. 



Young birds, as with R. calendvla, are without the colored crown. 



5 July, 1864. 



