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flame-color reach the general olive of the upper parts. Or, the top of the 

 head may he described as a central bed of flame-color, bounded in front and 

 on the sides with clear yellow, this similarly bounded byblack, this again 

 in the same manner by hoary- whitish. Smaller than R. calendula. Length, 

 4 inches ; extent, 6$-7 ; wing, 2-2* ; tail, If. 



9 , adult; and young: Similar to the adult male, but the central field of 

 the crown entirely yellow, inclosed in black (no flame-color). I have never 

 seen a newly-fledged specimen ; but birds of the year, in the fall, always 

 show black and yellow on the head, and I presume this appears with the 

 first feathering. 



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 FlO. 16. Golden-crested Kinglet. 



Specimens vary considerably in the shade of the general coloration, being 

 sometimes quite yellowish or greenish, at other times more ashy above, 

 except on the rump, and nearly white below. Nor is this a matter of age 

 or season, for it is shown by equally perfect spring specimens. I am 

 unable to verify a supposed more greenish hue in western specimens; in 

 point of fact, some o.f the richest specimens I ever saw are among those I 

 collected years ago about Washington, D. C. 



"TTNLIKE the Ruby-crown, the Gold-crest is far from con- 

 ^ spicuous in the Ornis of the Colorado Basin. I find that 

 I am usually quoted as authority for its occurrence in Arizona; 

 but I expressly stated, in my paper published in 1866, that I 

 had myself never met with it there. 1 cannot now speak posi- 

 tively of the authority upon which I relied for including it 

 among the birds of that Territory, but think it was Dr. S. W. 

 Woodhouse, who speaks of it as very abundant in Texas and 

 New Mexico, the latter including Arizona at the time he wrote. 

 It is given in none of the Pacific Railroad Reports, nor in the 

 Mexican Boundary Survey, nor in Ives's Colorado River Survey, 



