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climbing, creeper-like, up the trunk, or now and then springing 

 into the air after some passing insect, which they are very expert 

 in catching, and continually repeating a low call-note, which 

 serves to keep the little band together. In spring and fall 

 stragglers sometimes occur among patches of tall weeds upon 

 the prairie farms, remote from any woodland, but they never 

 remain long in such places, nor when pursued do they take 

 refuge among the dense foliage of the weed-beds, as do habitual 

 frequenters of such places, but rather keep near the top, flitting 

 from one to another or else go clear away. 



Regulus calendula (Linn.) Ruhy-croiuned Kinglet. — The 

 ruby-crest is a common winter visitor to this section, com- 

 mencing to arrive about the last week of September, but not 

 becoming numerous until two months later. In the early part of 

 the winter they keep in small parties, frequenting bushes and the 

 lower branches of the loftier trees, and even the heaps of withered 

 branches and dead brushwood upon the ground, but as the season 

 advances, they break up into pairs and gradually seek their food 

 at a higher level, until in March, during which month they are 

 more abundant than at any other time, and after which none 

 remain with us, it is rare to see them upon any except the upper- 

 most branches of the tallest trees. In many of their actions they 

 resemble the Phylloscopi more than the Reguli, as also does the 

 song. It is one of the most unsuspicious o± birds, taking no heed 

 of shots fired in their immediate neighbourhood, nor for a moment 

 ceasing their endless occupation of collecting the minute insects 

 upon which entirely they subsist, and which they will, with the 

 most perfect trustfulness, seek for within arm's length of the 

 observer. 



Regulus sateapa, Licht. Golden-crowned Kinglet. — A winter 

 visitor in small numbers, occurring from November to March, 

 and frequenting only the thickly-timbered districts and creeks 

 where cedars are plentiful. Like their European analogues, they 

 are restless little birds, going in small parties in company with 

 titmice and tree-creepers, and feeding on small insects, which 

 they find concealed among the branches. They are much less 

 affected by sudden or severe changes of weather than many of our 

 larger and more powerful birds, and even during the hardest 

 frosts are still able to find sufficient food among the upper boughs 



