GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 
of ruddy color on either side. Like the Chickadee it is 
more commonly found in thin woodlands. Its range is 
from the Gulf States through the warmer portions of the 
United States as far north as Nebraska, Illinois, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, New York (in the warmer parts, locally), 
New Jersey, and Connecticut; it occasionally visits Wiscon- 
sin and Michigan. Records of its breeding on Staten 
Island and Long Island are very rare; in Connecticut it 
occurs only as a rare visitant, but it is a very common 
permanent resident of Washington, D.C. Nest similar to 
that of the Chickadee. Egg, cream white flecked with 
burnt sienna brown. 
I have no record of this bird’s note. Its common song is 
in a monotone and is described as a frequently reiterated 
loud, clear whistle like the syllables peto, peto, peto, peto; 
it has a sibilant call like the Chickadee’s. 
Family Sylviidae 
Golden- There are only two members of the Old 
aaa World Family called Sylviidz, with which we 
Regulus satrapa May become acquainted in the eastern United 
L.4.10 inches States, the Golden-crowned and Ruby: 
April roth crowned Kinglets, if we except the Blue- 
gray Gnat-catcher which is extremely rare in the North, and 
breeds only in the West and South, or sometimes as far north 
as New Jersey. The Golden-crown is not a gifted singer, 
like all the misnamed Warblers it fails to warble! But 
the beautiful little creature is too attractive to pass without 
notice. Upper parts gray-olive, two dull white wing- 
bars the one nearer the shoulder indistinct, a white-gray 
area around the eye whitest above it, the centre of the 
crown cadmium orange margined by pure yellow which is 
again bordered by black, under parts dull white. Nest 
pensile or globular, usually woven of green mosses lined with 
finer material and feathers, lodged high up in a cedar, pine, 
or hemlock in swamp, or mountain ravine; sometimes it is 
sixty feet above the ground. Egg, half an inch long, cream 
or ochery white flecked and blotched with pale brown. The 
range of the species is from Alberta to southern Ungava and 
Cape Breton Island, south to the mountains of Massachu- 
setts, New York, the higher Alleghanies of North Carolina, 
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