KINGLETS 617 



browner on sides. Plumage of adult female : ruby red crown patch lacking, 

 otherwise similar to male. Immature plumage : very similar to that of adult 

 female. Wing 2.25 ; tail 1.80 ; culmen 0.29. 



Geog. Dist. — North America ; breeding in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky 

 Mountains south to Arizona, and from the extreme northern United States 

 northward : wintering from South Carolina to Mexico. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; fairly common, (Johnson). Aroostook ; 

 rare near Fort Kent in summer, (Knight). Cumberland ; common transient, 

 (Brown, C. B. P. p. 5). Franklin; common migrant, (Richards). Hancock; 

 common migrant, occasionally summer resident, (Knight). Kennebec ; very 

 rare migrant, (Dill). Knox; rare migrant, (Rackliff). Oxford ; rare, (Nash). 

 Penobscot; common migrant, rare simimer resident, (Knight). Piscataquis; 

 common migrant, (Homer). Sagadahoc; rare, one specimen, (Spinney). 

 Somerset; rare, have seen it once when I was sure it was breeding, (Morrell); 

 rare summer resident of northern region, (Knight). Waldo; common 

 migrant, rare summer resident, (Knight). Washington; rare, may breed, 

 (Boardman). York; not common migrant, (Adams). 



Mr. Brown gives date of arrival near Portland as April 

 ninteenth to the twenty-fifth, remaining until about May 

 fifteenth and again in the fall as about October first. Near 

 Bangor they generally arrive about April fourteenth to the 

 twentieth, and the bulk have passed on by May eighteenth, 

 a few remaining all summer. In the fall, the migration is on 

 in September and all are gone by October nineteenth. There 

 is no doubt of the species breeding in northern and eastern 

 Maine, though the best proof I can give of this is a nest with- 

 out eggs taken near Bangor, and observing the birds with 

 young near Fort Kent, and the fact that they are present in 

 mated pairs elsewhere in Maine in late June and early July. 



On May 31, 1897, while collecting in a thick woods of mixed 

 spruce and fir, my attention was attracted by the constantly 

 occurring song of a Kinglet. I located the songster by aid of 

 a pair of opera glasses and found he was accompanying his 

 mate who was engaged in nest building. She sought suitable 

 material in the immediate vicinity, and with her mouth filled 

 with large pieces of moss which she took from the tree trunks, 

 she would go to the top of a spruce tree near at hand and 

 shortly afterward fly away to repeat the process. I climbed the 

 tree and located the nest near the extremity of a limb, about 



