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How to Name the Birds 



STUDIES OF THE FAMILIES OF PASSERES 

 BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



SEVENTH PAPER 



Family 17. Kinglets and Gnatcatchers. Family Sylviida 



Range. — Ornithologists differ greatly in their treatment of the three 

 subfamilies of birds included in this family by the American Ornithologists' 

 Union's Check-List, that is, the Sylviinte, or Old World Warblers, number- 

 ing about one hundred species, only one of which reaches this country (the 

 Willow Warbler, in western Alaska) ; the Regulin<e, or Kinglets, with 

 seven species, three of which are American, and the Polioptilinte, or Gnat- 

 catchers, with some fifteen species, all of which are American. Two King- 

 lets and one Gnatcatcher are found east of the Mississippi. 



Season. — The Kinglets, representatives of an Old World family, as might 

 be supposed, are northern, migrating southward in September and October. 



KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS. Family Sylviida-. (One-third natural size) 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet 



The Gnatcatcher is southern, wintering from the Gulf States southward and 

 breeding as far north as middle New Jersey. 



Color. — Kinglets are olive-green or Warbler green, as it is called, above, 

 lighter below; with a bright patch on the crown, which is wanting in the 

 female and young Ruby-crown. Gnatcatchers are gray above, white below. 



External Characters. — Kinglets and Gnatcatchers have the slender bill 



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