liOLD-CEESTED KINGLET. 215 



incorrectly called, makes it appearance from the south about the first of 

 April and remains until the first week in May. It reappears the 

 first of October and remains through November. Its food consists of 

 hybernating insects and their eggs which it gleans busily from the tops 

 of the highest trees and lowest bushes, It is one of the tamest and most 

 unsusj)ecting of our birds, allowing the presence of man within a few feet 

 of it without manifesting any fear or annoyance. While thus engaged it 

 frequently utters a short wheezing note resembling the syllables "weese- 

 wsese-weese." More rarely it sings a continous song, which i3 noted for its 

 clearness, sweetness and variety. 



Mr. Read, speaking of their occurence in Northern Ohio, says he 

 has "shot them in pairs in the middle of summer, one answering the 

 discription of the male, the other plainer and without the ruby crown." 



No authentic account of their nesting in Eastern North America is 

 given, although they have been found through the summer in several 

 localities in the Eastern States. Mr. Henshaw found them breeding in 

 Colorado. 



Regulus satrapa Licht. 



<3-olclen-Creste<i Itinglet. 



Begulus criatatus, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163. 



Begulus tricolor, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv , 1838, 163, — Ebad, Proc. Philad, Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. vi. 1853, 395. 



Begulus satrapa, Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 3(3; Reprint, lb61, 5; Food of birds, 

 etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for lb74, 562 ; Reprint, 1875, 2 — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 

 1877, 3; Revised List, Journ. Ciu. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1379, 170; Reprint, 4. 



Begulus oristatus, Bartram, Trav. Pla., 1791, 291. 

 Begulus satrapa, " Lichtenstbii*, Verz., 1823." 

 Begulus tricolor, Nuttall, Man., i, 1332, 420. 



General color as in the preceding. Crown bordered in front and on sidfs by black, 

 inclosing a yellow and flame-colored patch (in the male ; in the female the scarlet is 

 wanting.) Extreme forehead and line over the eye whitish. Young, if ever without 

 traces of black on the head, may be told from the last species by smaller size and the 

 presence of a tiny bristly feather overlying the nostril ; this wanting in calendula. Size 

 of the preceding. 



Habitat, North America. 



Abundant. Winter Resident. Appears late in October or early in 

 November and remains until April. The description given of the habits 

 of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet applies equally to this species. On the 

 whole it appears to be more northern in its distribution both in summer 

 and winter, though Mr. Read says of them, " like the preceding, remains 

 in pairs throughout the summer." The nest and eggs are undescribed. 



Dr. Kirtland describes the occurence of another member of this family 



