BIKDS OE' NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 705 



than the middle toe, covered anteriorly with a few indistinct scutella; 

 toes scutellate, the lateral ones nearly equal and free; hind toe stouter; 

 claws weak, compressed, arched, acute. 



"Plumage very loose and tufty. Bristles at the base of the bill, a 

 small decomposed feather covering the nostril. Wings of ordinary 

 length, the thii-d and fourth primaries longest. Tail of 12 feathers, 

 emarginate. 



"Bill black. Iris hazel. Feet yellowish brown. The general color 

 of .the upper parts is dull grayish olive. Forehead, lores, and a line 

 behind the eye, black. A semilunar band of the same on the top of 

 the head, the middle space vermilion. Wings and- tail dusky, edged 

 with greenish yellow. Secondary coverts tipped with grayish white. 

 Under parts grayish white. 



"Length, 4i inches; extent of wings, 6; bill along the ridge nearly 

 one-third, along the gap nearly one-half; tarsus, three-fourths." 

 (Audubon's original description.) 



Regulus cuvierii Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 288, pi. 55 (Fatland Ford, on 

 Schuylkill Eiver, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1812; type lost) ; Synopsis, 1839, 82; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 163, pi. 131.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U". S. and 

 Can., i, 1832, 416. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1895, 333, "Hypothetical List," no. 26. 



lilegulus'] cuvierii Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 175. — Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., 

 1903, 12. 



Regulus cuvieri Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 228; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 163; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 66. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 75, pi. 5, fig. 7.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 32.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 82, footnote.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 357, "Hypothetical 

 List," no. 26. 



E[^egulus} cuvieri Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 568. 



Clprlhylio] CMJii'eri Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, 83, footnote. 



[Sylvia\ cuvieri Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 216, no. 3070. 



REGULUS CALENDULA CALENDULA (Linnaeus). 

 RUBT-CROWNED KINGLET. 



Adult male in spring and summer. — Above plain grayish olive 

 anteriorly, gradually assuming a more decided olive hue on back, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts more greenish olive; a large, concealed 

 fan- or wedge-shaped patch of clear vermilion red (rarely varying to 

 orange-red or salmon color) beginning at center of crown and over- 

 lapping occiput; wings and tail dusky, with light yellowish olive or 

 olive-yellow edgings, the middle wing-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 pale grayish olive, the greater coverts more broadly tipped with dull 

 white (forming two bands across wing), the tertials broadly edged with 

 dull whitish ; secondaries crossed by a basal broad band of blackish, 

 partly concealed by greater coverts; a broad whitish orbital ring, inter- 

 rupted on upper eyelid, the eyelids themselves black; 1 oral region pale 

 grayish; sides of head otherwise grayish oUve, like sides of pileum„ 

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