DOTS IN FEATHERS. 



In the bird manuals and keys they are mostly 

 called kinglets, although they used to be called 

 wrens. Only two species visit this locality, the 

 ruby-crowned and the golden-crowned. They are 

 very dainty little creatures, about four inches in 

 length, and flit and poise in the woods as gracefully 

 as fairies at play. They are not quite as lithe in form 

 as most of the smaller wood warblers, being what 

 you would call more " chuffy," though they are 

 almost, if not quite, as active and alert as they. 



Let us first make our obeisance to the golden- 

 crowned kinglet. A royal little personage he is 

 in very fact, with his bright yellow coronal and 

 golden gem set in the center, gleaming so bril- 

 liantly in the sunshine. On each side and in front 

 of the yellow crown-patch is a black stripe, which 

 separates it from the white line above the eye and 

 on the forehead. His general color, except the 

 parts named, is olive-green or olive-gray, brighter 



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