OF NEW ENGLAND. 53 
‘‘ While spring’s lovely season, serene, dewy, warm, 
“The green face of earth, and the pure blue of heay’n, 
‘Or love’s native music have influence to charm, 
“Or sympathy’s glow to our feelings is§ giv’n, 
** Still dear to each bosom the Blue-bird shall be; 
“ His voice, like the thrillings of hope, is a treasure; 
“For, thro’ bleakest storms if a calm he but see, 
“ He comes to remind us of sunshine and pleasure!” 
Norr. The European Stone-chat or ‘* Wheat-ear ” (Sawxicola 
enanthe) occurs in Northern North America as a wanderer, 
and is included by Dr. Coues in his “‘ List of the Birds of New 
England.” In his “Key” he describes it as follows (the 
length being 5-6 inches?): ‘* Adult: — ashy gray; forehead, 
superciliary line and under parts white, latter often brownish- 
tinted ; upper tail coverts white, wings and tail black, latter 
with most of the feathers white for half their length; line from 
nostril to eye, and broad band on side of head, black; bill and 
feet, black ; young everywhere cinnamon-brown, paler below; 
* * K KX KX o23 
§3. Sylviidee. (See §1.) 
I. REGULUS 
(A) caLenpuLtus. Ruby-crowned **Wren.” Ruby-crowned 
& Kinglet.’’ 
(Common in Massachusetts in April and October.) 
(a). 4-44 inches long. Above, greenish olive ; below, white, 
impure and yellow-tinged. Wings with two white bars, and 
(like the tail) with light edgings. Eye-ring, impure white. 
Crown in mature specimens with a scarlet patch, wanting in 
immature birds (and females?!°); moreover, in some speci- 
mens, small and orange-colored. 
(0). I believe that there is no record of the nest and eggs 
§ In the original ‘“‘are,” evidently through inadvertance. 
®* These birds have been called “ Kinglets” from their scientific name (Regulus), 
meaning ‘little king.” 
10] have seen in spring pairs of these birds, highly colored, and apparently fully 
matured, of whom the males had a brilliant carmine patch, and the females no 
patch at all, or none evident, 
