PLATE LXI. GOLDEN-CROWNED (OR CRESTED) KINGLET. 



Regulus satrapa. 



Above olive-green ; beneath dull white ; crown as follows : in the 

 centre a stripe of orange surrounded on front and sides by yellow, and 

 that in the same manner by black, and that again similarly by light 

 gray ; wings brown, most of the feathers with pale edges ; tail brown, 

 notched ; bill black ; feet dark. Length, 4 inches. 



Migratory. This exquisite little creature, fragile in appearance, and, excepting the 

 Winter Wren and the Hummingbird, the tiniest of our birds, is, in fact, a hardy, cold- 

 loving species. It comes to us from the boreal regions about the first of October, and 

 remains through the Winter. Look for it then among the pines and cedars. It has an 

 artless little song, unpretentious but pleasing ; a simple whistle repeated quickly three or 

 four times. This it utters in a sort of antiphone to the day-day-day of the Chickadee, and 

 the quank-quank of the Nuthatch, for these three birds are sworn friends and constant 

 companions. 



The Golden-crowned Kinglet is no lover of warm weather. Such experience as 

 comes to him in the early Spring warns him to be off, and about May i he wends 

 his way northward. 



