354 BUBY-CROWNED KINGLET 



tails. The list stands now: 1. Flycatchers. 2. 

 Larks. 3. Crows and Jays. 4. Blackbirds and 

 Orioles. 5. Finches and Sparrows. 6. Tanagers. 

 7. Swallows. 8. Waxwings. 9. Shrikes. 10. 

 Vireos. 11. Wood Warblers. 12. Pipits. 13. 

 Thrashers, Wrens, Catbirds. 14. Creepers. 15. 

 Nuthatches and Titmice. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet : Regulus calendula. 

 (See Fig. 218, p. 356.) 



Adult male, crown with concealed scarlet patch ; upper parts 

 olive-green ; under parts whitish. Female and young, similar 

 but without scarlet patch. Length, about 4 inches. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. North America, south to Guate- 

 mala ; breeds from the Sierra Nevada, Rocky Mountains, and 

 the high mountains of Arizona and eastern United States 

 north to the arctic. 



If you have thorn-apple or fruit trees on your 

 premises, keep close watch of them during the 

 migrations, and some morning you will find a tree 

 alive with a flock of plump little olive-green birds 

 that lift their wings like the Bluebird and Pine 

 Grosbeak. They are too short and plump to be 

 either Warblers or Vireos, and when one of them 

 is moved by love or war, he will lift the green 

 feathers of his cap and disclose his mark a 

 concealed scarlet patch by which all men may 

 know him to be a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



If you come too near, he may favor you with 

 a little chattering scold, but will pay little more 

 attention to you, as Kinglets have small fear of 



