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stubs at heights of about six feet from the ground and very 

 similarly built to nests of the common Chickadee. The Hud- 

 sonian Chickadee, however, has the habit of sitting on the stub 

 where the nest is and calling its " dee-dee-jack," thus drawing 

 attention to the nest, or at least this was the way my attention 

 was called to the two nests before mentioned. 



The nests and eggs in general are indistinguishable from 

 those of the common Chickadee, and the food is practically 

 identical. 



Family SYLVIID^E. Warblers, Kinglets, Gnatcatchers. 



Key to the species of SYLVIID.E. 



A. Crown with bright crest or patch of red or yellow and orange. 



1. Crown patch or crest ruby red. Ruby-crowned Kinglet, (male). 



2. Crown patch or crest yellow and orange. Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



B. Crown without red, yellow or orange patch or crest. 



1. Back bluish plumbeous gray; outer tail feathers white. Blue-gray 



Gnatcatcher. 



2. Back grayish olive green ; no white in tail. Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 



(female and immature). 



Subfamily REGULIN^E. Kinglets. 

 Genus REGULUS Cuvier. 



748. Regxdus satrapa Licht. Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



Plumage of adult male : crown centrally orange, bordered by lemon yellow 

 laterally, the yellow bordered by black ; whitish line over eye and whitish 

 across forehead ; otherwise above olive green ; wings and tail olive brown, 

 edged with bright olive green ; some of the greater wing coverts tipped with 

 whitish; below in general dull grayish white. Plumage of adult female: 

 the crown is always pale lemon yellow without the orange center of the 

 male ; otherwise the plumage is very similar to that of adult male. Imma- 

 ture plumage : the cap and lores are in general clove brown to dull black, but 

 in early August the immature birds take on the yellow or orange crowns 

 and become nearly indistinguishable from adults. Wing 2.12 ; tail 1.80 ; 

 culmen 0.29. 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding in the Alleghany Mountains south 

 to South Carolina and in the Rocky Mountains to Mexico, and from the 



