356 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Subfamily REGULIH^Si. KmoLETa. 



Genus REGULUS Cuvier. 



Begulus Cuvier, Legons Anat. Comp., I, 1800, table ii. Type, by mono- 

 typy, "Les Roitelets" = MotacUla regulus Linnaeus. 



RSgulus satrapa Lichtenstein. 



Range. — Northern North America, breeding mainly (except in 

 mountains) north of the United States; south in winter to the Gulf 

 coast and highlands of Mexico and Guatemala. 



a. Regulus satrapa satrapa Lichtenstein. Golden-crowned Kinglet. [748.] 



Begulus satrapa Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 35. (North. America.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from northern 

 Alberta, southern Keewatin, southern Ungava, and Cape Breton Island south 

 in Rocky Mountains to northern Arizona and New Mexico, and to Michigan, 

 New York, and mountains of Massachusetts, and in the higher Alleghenies 

 south to North Carolina; winters from Iowa (casually Minnesota), Ontario, 

 and New Brunswick to northern Florida and Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico. 



b. Regulus satrapa olivdceus Baird. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



[748a.] 



Regulus satrapa var. olivaceus Baird, Review Amer. Birds, 1864, 65. 

 (Simiahmoo, Washington.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from Kadiak 

 Island and Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, south through eastern Oregon to San 

 Jacinto Mountains, California; winters from British Columbia (casually 

 Alaska) to the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala. 



Regulus calendula (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Northern North America, breeding north of the United 

 States and in mountains south to New Mexico, Arizona, southern 

 California, and Guadalupe Island, Lower California; south in winter 

 to the tableland of Mexico and Guatemala. 



a. Regulus calendula calendula (Linnaeus). Ruby-crowned Kinglet. [749.] 



MotacUla calendula Linn^buss, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 337. (Near 

 Philadelphia, Pa.) 



