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78 REGULINE, KINGLETS. POLIOPTILINE, GNATCATCHERS.—GEN. 9, 10. 
very common in our woods, thickets and orchards. Migratory, insectivorous ; 
have a sweet song. 
9. Genus REGULUS Cuvier. 
*.* Greenish-olive, below whitish or yellowish; wings and tail dusky, edged 
with greenish or yellowish, wing coverts whitish-tipped. 4-41 long, wing 23-24; 
tail 11-13 
Ruby-crowned Hinglet. Crown with a rich scarlet patch (in both sexes, 
but wanting in both the first year) ; no black about head; bill and feet black. 
North America. Wus., i, 83, pl. 5, 
f. i; Norn, 1, 41533Aumps, i, 1638; 
pl. 1383; Bp., 227. . CALENDULUS. 
Golden-crowned Iinglet. Crown 
bordered in front and on sides by 
black, inclosing a yellow and flame 
colored patch (in the ¢; in the 9, 
the scarlet wanting) ; extreme fore- 
head, and Jine over eye, whitish; 
young, if ever without traces of black 
and yellow on the head, may be told 
from the last species, by smaller size 
and presence of a tiny bristly feather 
overlying the nostrils; this is want- IGS @oltlensorn med Kase 
ing in calendulus. North America. Wuts., i, 126, = 85 heed! 3 eA Dells 
XT, Tolls Weyer) Ge Pe. >. eee eS ARR AAR 
Ozss. Cuvier’s Kinglet (&. cuvieri Aup., ii, 163, es 131; Nourr., i, 416, Schuyl- 
kill River, June, 1812), not now known, is said to have two black stripes on each 
side of head. J. tricolor Nurv., i, 420, is R. satrapa; so is his R. eristatus, which 
is the name of the European species, not found in North America. 
Subfamily POLIOPTILINA. Gnateatchers. 
Tarsus not booted, and wings not longer than the rounded tail; bill slender (too 
thick in the figs.), depressed and well bristled at base; tip evidently overhanging 
(not in the figs.) ; tarsus long, slender; toes very short. Delicate little woodland 
birds, peculiar to America; migratory, insectivorous, very active and sprightly, 
with sharp, squeaking notes. There are about a dozen, chiefly Central and South 
American, species of the single 
10. Genus POLIOPTILA Sclater. 
*,* Bluish-ash, paler or white below; tail black and white; wings dusky, edged 
with hoary white; bill and feet black; only 4-44 long; wing scarcely 2, tail rather 
more. 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Clear ashy blue, bluer on head; forehead, and 
line over eye, black (wanting in 9): outer tail feather white. United 
States to Mass.; Arizona; Mexico. W4:1s., ii, 164, pl. 18, f. 3; Nurv., i, 
297; 2d ed., i, 327; Aup., i, 244, pl. 70; Bp., 380; Coor., 35. caRuULEA. 
