PLATE LXI.—GOLDEN-CROWNED (OR CRESTED) KINGLET. 
Regulus satrapa. 
Above olive-green; beneath dull white: crown as follows: in the 
centre a stripe of orange surrounded on front and sides by yellow, and 
that in the same manner by black, and that again similarly by light 
gray ; wings brown, most of the feathers with pale edges ; tail brown, 
notched ; bill black ; feet dark. Length, 4 inches. 
Migratory. This exquisite little creature, fr: agile in appearance, and, excepting the 
Winter Wren and the Hummingbird, the tiniest of our birds, is, in fact, a hardy, cold- 
loving species. It comes to us from the boreal regions about the first of October, and 
remains through the Winter. Look for it then among the pines and cedars. It has an 
artless little song, unpretentious but pleasing ; a simple whistle repeated quickly three or 
four times. This it utters in a sort of antiphone to the day-day-day of the Chickadee, and 
the guank-quank of the Nuthatch, for these three birds are sw orn friends and constant 
companions. 
The Golden-crowned Kinglet is no lover of warm weather. Such experience as 
comes to him in the early Spring warns him to be off, and about May 1 he wends 
his way northward. 
