quented by Bank Swallows. The original miner might have been a Swallow, 
but the Bluebirds had certainly enlarged the hole and rounded it. There were 
no available trees for a mile or so around, but—well, really now, it did give one 
a turn to see this bit of heaven quench itself in the ground—for love’s sake. 
No. 103. 
WESTERN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 
A. O. U. No. 748. Regulus satrapa olivaceus Baird. 
Description.—A dult male: Crown-patch (partially concealed) bright orange 
or flame-color (cadmium orange); a border of plain yellow feathers overlying 
the orange on the sides; these in turn bordered by black in front and on sides; 
extreme forehead white, connecting with white superciliary stripe; a dark line 
thru eye; above bright olive-green, becoming olive-gray on nape and side of 
head and neck; wing-quills and tail-feathers much edged with light greenish 
yellow, the former in such fashion as to throw into relief a dusky spot on middle 
of secondaries; greater coverts tipped with whitish; underparts sordid white, 
sometimes dusky-washed, or touched on sides with olivaceous. Adult female: 
Similar, but with crown-patch plain yellow instead of orange. Jmmature: 
Without crown-patch or bordering black, gradually acquiring these thru gradation 
of color. Length about 4.00 (101.6); wing 2.16 (55); tail 1.57 (40); bill .29 
(7.5); tarsus .67 (17). 
Recognition Marks.—Pyemy size; orange, or yellow, and black of crown 
distinctive. 
Nesting.—Nest: lashed to and largely concealed by drooping twigs on under 
side of fir bough near tip,an exquisite ball of mosses, lichens, liverwort, fine grasses, 
ete. ; bound together with cobwebs and lined with the softest materials, vegetable- 
down, cow-hair, and feathers, 314-7 inches in diameter, and placed from five feet 
up. Eggs: 7-9, rarely 10 (one of It on record), sometimes im two layers, dull 
white, cream white, or sordid cream-color, finely sprinkled or not with pale wood- 
brown or dull rufous, and sometimes, obscurely, with lavender. Avy. size, .54 x .40 
(13.7 x 10.2). Season: April 1-July 1; two broods. 
General Range.—Western North America from Rocky Mountains to the 
Pacific Coast, southward in winter over highlands of Mexico to elevated districts 
of Guatemala; breeding from Colorado (near timber-line), eastern Oregon 
(mountains near Fort Klamath), Sierra Nevada (south to Mount Whitney), 
Mount Shasta, ete., northward to Kenai Peninsula and Kadiak Island, Alaska. 
Range in Washington.—Common resident in coniferous timber (except 
pine) thruout the State, sea-level to limit of trees, less common east of Cascades, 
where numbers greatly augmented during migrations. 
Authorities.—? Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VIII. 1839, 154 
(Columbia River). Regulus satrapa, Licht. Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. IX. 
Dt lle 1858) pa220) (pant)a. (ln) C&S aes Rin Dkeb sar) aloes 
Specimens.—U. of W. P. Prov. B. E. 
