402 BIRDS OF ONTAKIO. 



under tail coverts, washed with dull chestnut or rusty-brown; other under 

 parts, whitish ; quills and tail feathers, lead color, as in other Titmice, scarcely 

 or slightly edged with whitish ; little or no concealed white on the rump ; bill, 

 black ; feet, dark. Size of P. atric(vpiUus or rather less. 



Hab. — Northern North America, from the more elevated parts of the 

 Northern United States (Northern New England, Northern New York, 

 Northern Michigan, etc. ) northward. 



Nest, in a hole in a tree or stump, lined with fur of animals, felted firmly 

 together. 



Eggs, five or six, creamy -white, speckled with hazel. 



The home of the Hudsonian Tit, as its name implies, is in the 

 Hudson's Bay country. It is also common in Labrador, and I have 

 seen it on the banks of the Lower St. Lawrence, travelling in little 

 troops from tree to tree, much^ after the manner of our familiar 

 Chickadee. It is truly a northern species, but as it has been found 

 in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, I think it will yet be 

 found in the districts of Parry Sound and Muskoka. At Ottawa, 

 and also near Toronto, it has been found as a rare straggler. In 

 Manitoba, Mr. Thompson says it occurs only in the coniferous forests 

 of the north and east. It has been found throughout the wooded 

 portions of Alaska, from its southern coast line at Port Kenai, 

 north throughout the Kuskoquim and Yukon River regions, to the 

 northern tree limit, well within the Arctic circle. 



It is a diligent insect hunter, but lives too far north to benefit 

 agriculture, __and for the same reason it is exempt from the perse- 

 cution to which all little birds are subject in more thickly peopled 

 districts. 



Family SYLVIID^. Warblers, Kinglets, Gnatcatchees. 

 Subfamily REGULIN^. Kinglets. 



Genus REGULUS Cuvier. 

 REGULUS SATRAPA (Light.). 



307. Golden-crowned Kinglet. (748) 



General color as in calendula; crown, bordered in front and on sides by 

 black, inclosing a yellow and flame-colored patch (in the male; in the feinale the 



scarlet is wanting); extreme forehead and line over the eye whitish. Young: 



If ever without traces of black on the head, may be told from the next species 

 by smaller size and the presence of a tiny bristly feather overlying the nostril < 

 this wanting in calendula. Size of calendula. 



