WREN-TITS. 25 



I only succeeded in finding the nest above described," — Dr. J. C. 

 Merrill, U. S. A., in Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Oct. 1881, p. 204. 



31. REGULUS OBSCURUS. 



DUSKY KINGLET. ** 



32. REGULUS CUVIERI. 



CUVIER'S KINGLET. ** 



23. REGULUS SATRAPA. 



GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 



"According to the observations of Mr. J. K. T^ord, this species 

 is very common on Vancouver's Island and along the entire bound- 

 ary line separating Washington Tei'ritory from British Columbia, 

 where he met with them at an altitude of six thousand feet. He 

 states that they build a pensile nest suspended from the extreme 

 end of a pine branch, and that they lay from five to seven eggs. 

 These he does not describe." — Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's 

 N. A. Birds, vol. i, p. 74. 



T,2a. REGULUS SATRAPA OLIVACEUS. 



WESTERN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.** 



34. PHYLLOSCOPUS BOREALIS. 



KENNICOTT'S WARBLER. ** 

 FAMILY Chamaeidae,— Wren-tits. 



35. CHAM/EA FASCIATA. 



GROUND-TIT; WREN-TIT. 



"The Wren-tit is one of several interesting discoveries made in 

 California by Dr. William Gambel, of Philadelphia, whose life left 

 an example of how much may be accomplished in a brief space of 

 time by the wise use of natural gifts. *•■'* X)r. J. G. Cooper, who 

 found the bird 'common everywhere west of the Sierra Nevada, 

 on dry plains and hillsides covered with chaparral and other 

 shrubby undergrowth,' describes the nest and eggs, which he dis- 

 covered at San Diego during the last week of April, 1S62. The 

 nest was placed in a shrub about three feet from the ground, and 



