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When searching for food, it is frequently observed hovering — ' 

 much in the manner of the Humming Bird — about the limbs of 

 trees, carefully examining the crevices for lurking insects. A few 

 sometimes remain with us until the middle of October, though gen- 

 erally all move off to the South at an earlier period. 



REGULUS SATRAPA— LICHENSTEIN. 



AMERICAN GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. 



Golden-crested Wren, Sylvia regulus, Wils. Amer. Orn. 

 Regulus cristatus, Bonap. Syn. 



American Fiery-crowned Wren, Regulus tricolor, Nutt. Man. 

 American Golden-crested Wren, Regulus tricolor, Aud. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character — Bill more slender and shorter than that of the pre- 

 ceding • forehead grayish-white, bordered above with a black band 

 — as are the sides of the head ; crown bright orange. Female with 

 the crown pale yellow. Adult male with a band of grayish-white 

 on the forehead, a similar band over the eye, and a fainter band 

 below it ; upper part of the head bordered with a black band, the 

 inner margin of which is yellow ; crown bright orange ; sides of 

 the neck ash-gray ; upper parts yellowish-gray ; a line of dusky 

 from the base of the bill continuing on the sides of the throat, 

 which, with the lower parts, are grayish-white ; primaries and 

 their coverts dusky, the former edged with greenish-yellow ; se- 

 condary coverts and first row of small coverts broadly tipped with 

 yellowish-white ; tail dark brown, the feathers edged with the 

 same color as the primaries. Length four inches, wing two and 

 one-eighth. 



This beautiful little Wren visits us from the South about the 

 middle of April. In the latter part of May it retires northward, where 

 it breeds. It returns to us in September, and continues with us 

 until quite late in autumn ; a few have been seen in the vicinity 

 of New York as late as December. Among us it is more abun- 

 dant than the preceding species, with which it associates, and re- 

 sembles it in its general habits. 



