SYLVIID.K — T'll'; SYLVIAS. 

 The following synopsis will servo as diagnoses of the si)eeie.s : — 



J lead with oiitirc! oiiii in adiill plain o 



olivaceous, with a I'oiiccaleil patch of fi'inison. 

 Hub. Whole of North America; soiitii to (iiiatcmala; Grcciilaiul . . , 



Head with forehead and line over the eyo white, boniei-e.l inside l.y lilaek, and 

 within this a.Main is yellow, enibracin^r an orange patch in the centre of the 

 Clown. Hah. Whole of North America 



Head with forehead and line throii-h the eye black, bordered inside by Avhitisb, 

 an.! within this ajrain by black, embracing an unuige-red patch in the euiitro of 

 the crown. Hub. Banks of Scluiylkill River, Pennsylvania 



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(i/fiid/iln. 



■idfnqia. 



curitrt. 



Regulus satrapa, Liciit. 



QOLDEN-CBOWNED KIKOLET. 



I!.rn>h<s .mfrnpa, Liei.r. Vorz. 1S2;{, ii„. 410. - Da.,!, & IUn-ntstku (Alaska). - Loan 

 (VaiicMivr l.sl.). -lUiiti., Minis N. Am. 185it, 2-J7 ; lievicw, (J5. — Sei,.vri.;ii, V. 7. S 

 1857, 212 (Orizaba). - U.kmkkku, Cab. Jour, IV, y:(, pi. i, lij,. ,s (..jj.s, tVoin Labrador)." 

 --I'll. M.VX. Cab. Jour. IS.'iS, 111. _('o„|,|.;i. & SecKi.KV, l>. IJ. K. 1{. .\II, ii, 185!) 

 174 oviutm in W. Tciritorv). - Lone, 1{. Art. lu.st. Wool. l.S(i4, 114 '(nest »). — 

 DliKssKii, Ibi.s 18ti5, 47<i (T.'xas, winter). -S.v.Meia.s, 171*. -CooPKIt, liirds Cul I 

 32. Xah-hi rt,j„lnx, M'li.s. ; /,■,•,,»/»., a-isl„hi^, Vm:ii.L. ; A', tricolor, Xi;tt. Aim 



Figures: Aue. Birds Am. II, pi. cxx.xii._lu. Urn. Biog. II, pL d.v.xxiii. _ Vik.ii.l Ois 

 Am. Sept. II, pi. cvi. 



Sp. C.vk. Above olive-green, brightest on the onfr edges of the win- tail-reathors 

 tmged with brownish-gray towards the head. I'oreh..a,|, a line over the eye and u space 

 beneath It, white. Exterior of the ,.rown before and laterally black, embraeing a central 

 patch ol orange-red, encircled by gamboge-yellow. A dnskv spa,.- aroniul the eye 

 Wing-eoverfs with two yellowish-white bands, the posterior covering a similar band on 

 he quills, succeeded by a broad .Insky one. T'nder parts dull whitish. Len-rth under 

 4 niches; wmg, 2.2,; tail, 1.8... Fe,„,„,. without the orange-red central patd.: Young 

 birds without the colored eiowii. ^ 



ILvn. North Au>eri,.a generally. On the west coast, not recorded .south of Fort Crook 

 Orizaba, ScLATKK ; W. Arizona, Coi'ks. "'"vviook. 



Specimens of this bird from the far West 

 are lunch brighter and more oliviiceoiis above; 

 the markings of the face are also somewhat 

 different in siiowing less dnsky aliout tlie eye. 

 These may form a variety olimceus. 



The RcijkIhh rrisfnfiiH of Enrope, a close ally 

 of our bird, is distinguislied by having shorter 

 wings and longer bill; the Hanie-color of the 

 head is more extended, the l)laek liorder i.s 

 almost wanting anteriorly. The back tmd nunp. too. are more yellow 



Habits The (ioKlen-creste.l Kinglet, or Wren, as it is often called, occnrs 

 over nettrb^ the whole of the North .A.nerican contine.it. It is abnn.lant 

 from the Atlantic to the I'acilic, an.l thronghont the British Provinces where 



Resnlu.1 satrnpa. 



