Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 703 



Adult male: A patch. of golden orange on middle crown, bordered 

 by yellow; sides of crown, black; an ashy white streak over the eye 



and across front of forehead; a dusky 



loral streak; upper parts, grayish olive, 



shading to olive green on the rump ; under 



parts, whitish or buffy white; outer webs 



of wing feathers edged with pale greenish 



yellow, broken in the middle by a blackish 



space, forming a dusky bar on the closed 



wing ; greater and middle wing coverts tipped with yellowish white 



or whitish; tail, dark slaty brown, narrowly edged with olive green. 



Adult female: Similar, but crown patch bright canary yellow 



(without orange) bordered by black. 



Length, about 4; wing, 2.12; tail, 1.70; bill, .26. 

 This pretty little species is a common migrant in Illinois and Wis- 

 consin in spring and fall, and a more or less common winter resident 

 in Illinois and southern Wisconsin. According to Mr. Kline a few 

 remain all summer in the thick swamps near Polo, 111., but he has 

 never succeeded in finding their nests (Cooke, Bird Migration Missis- 

 sippi Valley, 1888, p. 279). 



Messrs. Kumlien and HoUister state: "Dr. Ogden states that it is 

 sometimes found in mid-winter in Milwaukee County, and the same 

 is true of other sections of the state. The golden-crown breeds along 

 the south shore of Lake Superior, in Ontonagon County, Michigan, 

 and possibly to some extent, therefore, in the pine regions of northern 

 Wisconsin." (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 125.) 



While with us it rarely attempts anything more ambitious in the 

 way of a song than a soft, lisping tsee, tsee, tsee. 



356. Regulus calendula (Linn.). 

 Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



Distr.: North America, north to Labrador, the Mackenzie region, 

 and Alaska ; winters in the United States, Mexico, and Central America 

 to Guatemala; breeds from Quebec, northern Michigan, and moun- 

 tains in New Mexico northward. 



Adult male: A patch of fiery red on the crown; rest of upper parts, 

 grayish olive, shading to clear olive green on the rump ; wing and tail, 

 dusky, edged more or less with yellowish olive ; a dusky bar on the 

 closed wing, as in the preceding species; wing coverts tipped with 

 whitish ; under parts, ashy white or whitish, more or less tinged with 

 pale olive buff. 



