430 NOTES ON THE 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Head above and below black, separated by white on the 
sides of the head; back brownish-ash; beneath white, tinged 
with pale brownish-white on the sides; outer tail feathers, 
primaries and secondaries broadly edged with white, involving 
nearly the whole outer web of the outer tail feathers; tail 
much graduated; the outer feather about thirty hundredths of 
an inch shorter than the middle; second quill about as long as 
the secondaries. 
Length, about 5.50; wing, 2.70; tail, about 3 inches. 
Family SYLVIID_. 
REGULUS SATRAPA LicHTeNSTEIN. (748.) 
GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 
This species appears simultaneously with the other Kinglet 
and differs from it very little in its habits. Not quite as 
numerous as the other, nor quite as active perhaps, it is not as 
easily obtained. It rarely sings in migration, and then in a 
very soft, musing tone which is very monotonous. The near- 
est description of the note which I can give is expressed in a 
single word, ?’eeet, and a single strain consists of about a half- 
dozen repetitions. Amid the grand chorus of bird-song it is 
easy to fail to detect it, but when heard is decidedly pleasing. 
It leaves for the farther north a little earlier than the Ruby- 
crowned does. I know nothing of its breeding habits within 
my province, but think it not improbable that its nests may yet 
be found in the northeastern portions of the State. It is 
believed to be a more northern bird than its cousin. 
Mr. Herrick found it present still in Southern Minnesota as 
late as October in the fall migration. 
Their patient industry in gathering their tiny insect food, 
monotonously repeating their ‘‘t’eeet, t’eeet, t’eeet, t’eeet, t’eeet, 
t’eeet,” softly and rather rapidly, interrupted by a frequent 
poise upon their fluttering wings while feeding upon some 
dainty forms at the very extremity of the tremulous leaves is a 
marvellous exhibition of contentment with their lot. They 
have a habit of exposing their concealed, golden feathers of 
the crown, by suddenly opening and shutting the overlapping 
feathers on the parts adjoining them, by which they make 
good their claims to royalty, and from which they have ob- 
tained the common name of Golden-crowned Kinglets. Most 
of them have passed further north by the end of the second 
