Appendix, 



patch of chestnut red on the wing-coverts. 

 Colorado Desert. 



THE KINGLET AND GNATCATCHER FAMILY. 



Small, slender, insect eating birds, with delicate 

 bills, generally found in flocks among the trees; 

 colored olive-green or bluish gray and usually 

 with a special head marking. They are never 

 streaked, even in the young plumage. They are 

 confiding in habits and may be easily observed. 

 The two species of kinglet are olive-green above, 

 brighter on the rump and on the edges of wing 

 and tail-feathers; the wings are barred with 

 whitish; below dull whitish with a faint olive 

 tinge on sides. Young without head ornaments. 

 Length about four inches. 



194. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet; Regulus 

 satrap a olivaceus Baird. 



Crown of male black bordered, enclosing a yellow 

 space within which is an orange flame-colored 

 center. Line of white over eye. Female like 

 male but lacking the orange center to the 

 crown. Breeds in the high mountains of 

 northern California, and south in winter irregu- 

 larly in the valleys. Less common than the 

 following. 



195. Ruby-crowned Kinglet; Regulus calendula 

 (Linn.). 



Crown of male brilliant scarlet, without black 

 border. Female without special marking. It 

 is therefore very difficult for the inexpert to tell 

 the female from some o{ the dull colored 



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