78 REGULINiE, KINGLETS. POIjIOPTILINiE, ONATCATCHERS. GEN. 9, 10. 



xevy common in our woods, thickets and orcliards. 

 liave a sweet son"'. 



Migratory, insectivorous : 



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9. Genus REGITLUS Cuvier. 



*,*Greenisli-olive, below wliitisla or yellowish; wings and tail dusky, edged 

 with greenish or yellowish, wing coverts whitish-tipped. 4-41 long, wing 2^—2^ ; 

 tail U-lf. 

 \ Baby-crowned Kinglet. Crown witli a rich scarlet patch (in botli sexes, 

 '■'^ but wanting in both the first year) ; no black about head ; bill and feet black. 

 North America. Wils., i, 83, pi. 5, 

 f. i; NuTT., i, 415; Aud., ii, 1G8, 

 pi. 133; Bd., 227. . calendulus. 

 Golden-crovmed Kin/jlet. Crown 

 bordered iu front and on sides by 

 black, inclosing a yellow and flame 

 colored patch (in the <J ; in the 9 , 

 the scarlet wanting) ; extreme fore- 

 head, and line over e3e, whitish ; 

 young, if ever without traces of black 

 and yellow on the head, nia}' be told 

 from the last species, by smaller size 

 and presence of a tiny bristly feather 

 overlying the nostrils ; this is want- 

 ing in ccdendiduf^ . North America. 



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Fig. 19. Golden-cro"vmed Kinglet. 



WiLS., i, 12(5, pi. 8, f. 2; Aud., ii, 

 26.5, pi. 132; Bd., 227 satrapa. 



Obs. Cuvier's Kinglet (i?. cuvieri Aud., ii, 163, pi. 131 ; Nutt., i, 416, Schuyl- 

 kill River, June, 1812), not now known, is said to have tivo black stripes on each 

 side of head. JR. tricolor Nutt., i, 420, is B. satrapa; so is his R. cristatus, which 

 is the name of the European species, not found in North America. 



Subfamily POLIOPTILINJE. GnatcatcJiers. 



Tarsus not booted, and wings not longer than the rounded tail ; bill slender (too 

 thick in the tigs.), depressed and well bristled at base ; tip evidently overhanging 

 (not in the figs.) ; tarsus long, slender ; toes verj' short. Delicate little woodland 

 birds, peculiar to America ; migratory, insectivorous, very active and sprightly, 

 with sharp, squeaking notes. There are about a dozen, chiefly Central and South 

 American, species of the single 



10. Genus POLIOPTILA Sclater. 



*,j.* Bluish-ash, paler or white below ; tail black and white ; wings dusky, edged 

 with hoary white ; bill and feet black ; only 4-4^ long ; wing scarcely 2, tail rather 

 more. 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Clear ashy blue, bluer on head; forehead, and 

 line over eye, black (wanting in 9 ) : outer tail feather white. United 

 States to Mass. ; Arizona; Mexico. WiLS., ii, 164, pi. 18, f. 3; Nutt., i, 

 297 ; 2d cd., i, 327 ; Aud., i, 244, pi. 70 ; Bd., 380 ; Coop., 35. c^rulea. 



