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ete. They are much smaller than the Turdide and Saxicolide, 
with much more slender, depressed bill, longer rictal bristles, ete. 
The short outer primary, with the primaries ten in number, distin- 
guish them from the Sylvicolide. 
Of the two subfamilies, Reguline are more nearly related to the 
Saxicolidx, and Polioptiline to the Paride; 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 :— 
Reguline. Wings longer than the emarginate tail. Tarsi booted or with- 
out scutellar divisions. 
Polioptilinz. Wings about equal to the graduated tail. Tarsi with dis- 
tinct scutelle. 
REGULUS, Cvv. 
Regulus, Cuv. ‘‘Lecons d’Anat. Comp, 1799-1800.” (Type Motacilla 
regulus, Linn.) 
Reguloides, Buytu. 1847. (Type “R. proregulus, Pat.,’’ GRAY.) 
Phyllobasileus, Cas. Mus. Hein. I, 1850, 33. (Type Motacilla calen- 
dula, Linn.) 
Regulus satrapa. 
Regulus satrapa, Licut. Verz. 1823, no. 410.—Barrp, Birds N. Am. 1859, 
227.—SciatTer, P. Z. 8. 1857, 212 (Orizaba).—BapEkeEr, Cab. Jour. 
IV, 33, pl. 1, fig. 8 (eggs, from Labrador). —Pr. Max. Cab. Jour. 
1858, 111.— Cooper & Suckuey, P. R. R. R. XII, um, 1859, 174 
(winters in W. Territory). 
Sylvia regulus, Wits. ; Regulus cristatus, VEIL. ; R. tricolor, Nutt., Aup. 
Figures: Aup. B. A. II, pl. 132.—Is. Orn. Biog. II, pl. 183.—Vuetut. 
Ois. Am. Sept. II, pl. evi. 
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. calendula, are without the colored crown. 
5 July, 1864. 
