BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
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Plate XVI. 
REGULUS SATRAPA, Licht. 
Golden-crowned Kinglet. 
The Goldex-c'rowxed Kinglet, or AVren, ranges over nearly the 
entire continent of North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific 
Ocean, and northward from Texas and New Mexico to Sitka on the xvest, 
where it seems to replace the Ruby-crown. On our eastern seaboard it 
doubtless attains as high a latitude. Audubon claims to having found it 
nesting in Newfoundland, and Baedecker, in Labrador, hut recent trav- 
elers have certainly not encountered its jrresence during the breeding- 
period in those j)arts, since they have left no record of such occurrence. 
In the United States, until recently, it was generally supposed to be 
a migrant; arriving pretty punctually in October, just as autumn is merg- 
ing into winter, and remaining till May. But the past five or six years 
have let in new light upon its history, and shown, what had already been 
surmised, that it would be found to breed in the coniferous forests . and 
mountainous regions toward our northern border. 
Our knowledge of the species is limited, and is mainly restricted to 
its habits during its long stay with us from October to May. Every one 
wdio has left the shadow of home, and strayed out into the fields and 
woods, or along the margins of ice-bound streams and jionds, must have 
had his attention directed to its cries as it flitted from tree to tree in 
search of food. At such times, the sexes remain apart, or but occasionally 
come together. Although shunning, rather than courting each other’s 
society, their casual meeting is not the harbinger of contention, but is 
either tacitly acknowledged, or passed by unnoticed. AVhile there seems 
