128 KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS 



T. V., not uncommon W. V., Sept. as-ApI. ao. N. Ohio, com- 

 mon W. V., Sept. ao-May 4. Glen Eflyn, common T. V., irregu- 

 lar W. V., Sept. 10-May 8. SE. Minn., common T. V., Mch. 30-; 

 Sept. 31-Dec. 1. 



It is surprising, in the depth of winter, when in great 

 coat and muffler we keep warm only by vigorous exercise, 

 to see these dainty, feathered mites, unconcerned by the 

 temperature, flitting here and there in their search for 

 insects' eggs and larvae. They have small fear of man and 

 we may readily approach near enough to hear their thin 

 ti-ti or see their golden-crown. In proportion to its size, 

 this diminutive species lays a larger number of eggs than 

 any other of our birds, as many as 9 or 10 white, brown- 

 marked eggs being laid in their pensile, mossy nest in the 

 latter part of May. 



H RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET 



Reguhis calendula calendula. Case 4, Figs. 70, 71; Case 5, Figs. 

 36, 37 



A white eye-ring; two whitish wing-bars, no white in the tail; 

 adult male with a ruby crown-patch; absent in females and 

 young. L. 4$. 



Range. Nests chiefly north of the United States; winters from 

 Virginia and Iowa southward. 



Washington, abundant T. V., Apl. 13-May IS; Sept. 35-Nov. 1; 

 occasionally winters. Ossining, common T. v., Apl. 8-May 13; 

 Sept. 16— Nov. 3. Cambridge, rather common T. V., Apl. 12— 

 May s; Oct. 10-30. N. Ohio, common T. V., Apl. i-May 23; 

 Sept. o-Nov. 3. Glen Ellyn, fairly common T. V., Mch. 33- 

 May 19; Sept. o-Oct. 27. SE. Minn., Mch. ia-; Sept. 18- 

 Oct. 24. 



A tiny, olive-green bird, with a large white eye-ring, 

 fluttering actively among the yellowing leaves, uttering 

 from time to time a wrenJike cack as he twitches his wings 

 and showing little or no fear of man can be only the Ruby- 

 crown, southward bound. He returns before the trees are 

 clad, as the author of a song as marvelous in volume as it 

 is musical in tone; a whistled song of rare sweetness. 



