38 NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS. 



Family SYLVIID.'E — Kinglets. 



20. THE ALASKAN ^WILLOW WREN. 

 PHYLLOPNEUSTE BOREALIS Blasius. 



A single specimen of this little bird was obtained on Norton 

 Sound, Alaska^ by Charles Pease, in 1S66. " We have no in- 

 formation in reference to its habits. As it bears a very close 

 resemblance to the willow wren of Europe {^P. trochilus) ^ it 

 is quite probable that its general habits, nest and eggs will be 

 found to correspond very closely with those of that bird." It 

 also inhabits northeastern Asia adjacent to the coast. 



21. THE RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 

 REGULUS CALENDULA Lichtenstei?i. 



Not much is known of the habits of this bird in the breeding 

 season, although it is found abundantly at varying points in all 

 parts of North Atnerica. In the Rocky Mountains it breeds 

 among the most elevated forests. Allen found young in July 

 near Alount Lincoln, Col. ; Bendire gives it as breeding at Camp 

 Harney, Oregon ; Ridgway, among the peaks of northern Utah ; 

 and Henshaw in Arizona. It is also supposed to breed in north- 

 ern New Jersey, in western New York, in Maine, and at the 

 Bay of Fundy. In western New York a nest which contained 

 young was reported to have been built in the fork of a tree. 

 Males and females have both been observed in summer about 

 Philadelphia, and Mr. Gentry thinks it nests on the wooded 

 heights along the Wissahickon. Dr. Coues, in his Birds of the 

 Northwest, considers that he has sufficient evidence to show a 

 breeding-range throughout the mountains of the West, from 

 9,000 feet upward, thence trending eastward along the north- 

 ern boundary of the United States to Maine and Labrador, 

 and probably sending a spur southward along the Alleghany 

 Mountains. Northwestward it reaches Alaska. 



Our first real information was furnished by J. H. Batty, who 

 found a nest near the Buffalo Mts. in Colorado, on June 21, 1873, 

 which contained five young and one G'g'g. The nest was on the 

 branch of a spruce-tree, about fifteen feet from the ground, and 



