GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 



of ruddy color on either side. Like the Chickadee it is 

 more commonly found in thin woodlands. Its range is 

 from the Gulf States through the warmer portions of the 

 United States as far north as Nebraska, Illinois, Ohio, 

 Pennsylvania, New York (in the warmer parts, locally), 

 New Jersey, and Connecticut; it occasionally visits Wiscon- 

 sin and Michigan. Records of its breeding on Staten 

 Island and Long Island are very rare; in Connecticut it 

 occurs only as a rare visitant, but it is a very common 

 permanent resident of Washington, D. C. Nest similar to 

 that of the Chickadee. Egg, cream white flecked with 

 burnt sienna brown. 



I have no record of this bird's note. Its common song is 

 in a monotone and is described as a frequently reiterated 

 loud, clear whistle like the syllables peto, peto, pcto, pcto; 

 it ha a sibilant call like the Chickadee's. 



Family Sylviidae 



Golden- There are only two members of the Old 



KinTet d World Famil y caUed Sylviida?, with which we 



R^guius sairapa mav become acquainted in the eastern United 

 L. 4. 10 inches States, the Golden-crowned and Ruby- 

 April roth crowned Kinglets, if we except the Blue- 

 gray Gnat-catcher which is extremely rare in the North, and 

 breeds only in the West and South, or sometimes as far north 

 as New Jersey. The Golden-crown is not a gifted singer, 

 like all the misnamed Warblers it fails to warble! But 

 the beautiful little creature is too attractive to pass without 

 notice. Upper parts gray-olive, two dull white wing- 

 bars the one nearer the shoulder indistinct, a white-gray 

 area around the eye whitest above it, the centre of the 

 crown cadmium orange margined by pure yellow which is 

 again bordered by black, under parts dull white. Nest 

 pensile or globular, usually woven of green mosses lined with 

 finer material and feathers, lodged high up in a cedar, pine, 

 or hemlock in swamp, or mountain ravine; sometimes it is 

 sixty feet above the ground. Egg, half an inch long, cream 

 or ochery white flecked and blotched with pale brown . The 

 range of the species is from Alberta to southern Ungava and 

 Cape Breton Island, south to the mountains of Massachu- 

 setts, New York, the higher Alleghanies of North Carolina, 



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