700 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



cc. Forehead and lores black; whitish superciliary stripes connected across the 

 anterior portion of crown; a black postocular stripe; crown-patch vermilion 



red. (Pennsylvania; extinct?) Regulus onrvierii, adult male (p. 704) 



hh. Black (or dusky) crown-stripes narrower, not connected anteriorly, the whole 

 space between them brownish gray.-Begulus satrapa and subspecies, young. 

 aa. No superciliary stripe; pileum without any black or dusky lateral stripe (a red 

 patch in center of pileum in adult males). [Regulus calendula.) 

 b. Paler, with longer wing and shorter bill (wing averaging more than 58 in male, 

 more than 56 in female; exposed culmen usually less than 8.7). (North 

 America in general, breeding northward and along higher mountains south- 

 ward; south to Mexico. ) Eegnlus calendula calendula (p. 705) 



bb. Darker, with shorter wing and longer bill (wing averaging less than 57 in males, 

 less than 55 in females; exposed culmen usually more than 8.7). 

 c. Male averaging, wing 56.5, exposed culmen 8.7, tarsus 18.7; female, wing 

 54.5, culmen 8.7, tarsus 18.1. (Pacific coast, from California to southern 



Alaska. ) Eegulns calendula grinnelli (p. 709) 



cc. Male averaging, wing 54.6, exposed culmen 9.8, tarsus 19.8; female, wing 

 50, exposed culmen 10, tarsus 20. (Guadalupe Island, Lower California.) 



Regulus calendula obsourus (p. 710) 



REGULUS SATRAPA SATRAPA Lichtenstein. 

 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGIET, 



Adult male in spring and summer. — Anterior portion of forehead 

 and broad superciliary stripe dull white or pale gray; within this a 

 broad V-shaped mark of black, inclosing a narrower one of yellow, 

 within which is a large patch of bright orange or cadmium orange, 

 occupying center of crown and projecting over occiput; occiput 

 (beneath posterior portion of orange-colored crest), hindneck, and 

 upper back mouse gray; rest of back grayish olive, changing gradu- 

 ally into brighter or more greenish olive on rump and upper tail- 

 coverts; wings and tail dusky with light yellowish olive or olive- 

 yellow edgings, the middle and greater wing-coverts broadly tipped 

 with pale olive-yellow or yellowish white; secondaries crossed by a 

 basal (concealed) band of pale yellow, immediately succeeded by an 

 exposed one of dusky; an indistinct, or at least not sharply defined, 

 dusky loral and postocular streak, and, usually, a similar rictal streak; 

 rest of sides of head, together with under parts, plain dull olive-whitish, 

 the sides and flanks faintly tinged with more yellowish olive; bill black; 

 iris brown; legs and feet deep brown (in dried skins), with soles of toes 

 yellowish. 



Adult male in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and sum- 

 mer plumage but more brightly colored, the upper parts more decid- 

 edly olivaceous, the under parts strongly suffused with pale buffy 

 olive. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but orange crown -patch 

 entirely replaced by canary yellow. 



Young, first plumage {sexes alike). — Pileum brownish gray or gray- 

 ish olive, margined laterally with a rather indistinct line of black; 



