SYl.VlID.i: — TIIK SYLVIAS. 



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The following synopsis will sfivi! as diagnoses of tin* s]HM'i(»s : - - 



ITead with entire eap in adult plain olivaceous, with a coiu-caled i»at<li of ciiinson. 



I!<t1>. Whole of Noitli Anifiifa: south t<Hiuali'inala; (ireeuland . . c(tlrtnltiln. 



Ili-ad with Ibrelieail and lint- over the eye white. hordertMl insidt- l>y hlael-, and 

 within this aL'ain is yi'llow, cniluaeiug an orange patfh in tlie centre of the 

 erown. Ilah. Wiiole of North Anieriea stifnijHi. 



Head with forehead and line throujrli the eye black, hordered inside i.y whitish, 

 and within this ajrain hy black, embracing an orange-retl patch in the centre of 

 the crown. Hub. lianks of Schuvlkill River, rennsylvaniu . . . cuvieri. 



Begulus satrapa, Licht. 



GOLDEN-CBOWKED XIH6LET. 



Rajulns sntrapn. Lieu r. Verz. 18J:i, no. 410. — Dall & Banxister (Alaska). — Lokd 

 (VanL'ouvcr Isl.). — IJAiitn, lUrds N. Am. 1S55», 'I'll ; lievicw, 65. — ScLArni:, W Z. S. 

 l»r»7, 212 (Orizaba). — IJ.KUKKKi:, Cab. Jour. IV, 33, pi. i, fig. Js (»-ggs, from Labrador). 

 — Pk. Max. ( ab. Jour. \s',S, 111. —Cooper & Sucklev, V. \\. K. li. XII, ii, 1859, 

 174 (winters in W. Tnritory). — Lord, K. Art. Inst. Wool. lSt)4, 114 (nest?). — 

 Dresser, Ibis, 18t)5, 47»j (Texas, winter). -SAMrEL}*, UiK — Cooper, Birds Cal. I, 

 32. Siffviif reffithfs, Wils. ; Ilnjulua vristutns, ViElLL. ; li. fricohr, NlTT., Am. 



figures: Aun. liirds Am. II, pi. cxxxii. — Ib. Oni. Biog. II, pi. ilxxxiii. — Vieii.l. Ois. 

 Am. Sept. M, pi. evi. 



Sp. Char. Above olive-green, brightest on the outer edges of the wing: tail-feathers 

 tinged with brownish-gray towards the head. Foreliea<l, a line over the eye ami a space 

 beneath it, white. Exterior of the erown bt'fore and laterally black, embracing a central 

 patch of orange-red, encircled by gamboge-yellow. A dusky space around the eye. 

 Wing-coverts with two yellowish- white bands, the posterior covering a similar band on 

 the quills, succeeded l»y a broad dusky one. Tender parts dull whitish. Length under 

 4 inches; wing, 2.2r>: tail, L80. Female without the orange-red central patch. Young 

 birds without the colored crown. 



IIab. North America generally. On the west coast, not recorded south of Fort Crook. 

 Orizaba, Sclater ; W. Arizona, Coues. 



Specimens of this bird from the far West 

 are much brighter and more olivaceous above ; 

 the markings of the face are also somewhat 

 diHerent in showing less dusky al)Out the eye. 

 These may form a variety ofivaccus. 



The Bi'fjnhoi crt'i^fafus of Europe, a close ally 

 of our bird, is distinguislied by having shorter 

 wings and longer bill; the llanie-color of the 

 liead is more extended, the black border is 

 almost wantin*.; anteriorly. The back and rump, too, are more yellow. 



Habits. Tiie CI olden-crested Kinglet, or Wren, as it is often called, occurs 

 over nearly the whole of the North American continent. It is abundant 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and throughout the British Provinces, where 



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Regulus satrapa. 



