696 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



1866, by the naturalist of the Western Union Telegraph expedi- 

 tion. During the summer of 1877, o" July 26th and 31st, I 

 obtained two specimens on each of the days mentioned, as they 

 were searching the old board fences surrounding the houses at 

 St. Michael. A few others were obtained later and they were 

 seen the next year. {Nelson.) Two were discovered flitting rap- 

 idly among the foliage of some birches a hundred yards back 

 from the Kowak River, Kotzebue Sound, near our winter cabin. 

 Their behaviour closely resembled that of the ruby-crowned 

 kinglet. I saw Kennicott's willow warbler but once again, on the 

 14th of June, 1899, in the Kowak delta. I was following close 

 around the margin of a small lake, when I found myself within 

 twenty feet of a single individual which I at once recognized as of 

 the same species taken .the previous fall. The bird was close to 

 the ground searching- among some willow bushes and stunted 

 spruces. ( Gnnnell.) 



CCLIII. REGULUS Cuvier. 1799. 



748. Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



Regulus satrapa 'Licw.T. 1823. 



Fairly common in patches of spruce on the northeastern coast 

 of Labrador, as far north as Aillik. {Bigelow.) Audubon, Vol. 

 II., p. 165, found them feeding their young in August. {Packard.) 

 A common resident in Nova Scotia. {Downs.) A small flock was 

 seen on Sable Island, N.S., on October 2nd, 1902. {James Bouteil- 

 lier) Common in the woods at Brackley Point, Prince Edward 

 Island, July 17th, 1888. {Macoun.) Infrequently observed on Prince 

 Edward Island. Young were on the wing by the last of June ; not 

 uncommon at Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, in June, 1887. 

 {Dwight.) Rather common, most abundant in the fall and winter, 

 but it breeds in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain^ A cornmon and 

 permanent resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B.; the young are 

 about with the parents in late June. {IV. H. Moore.) 



A common but transient visitant, at Montreal in spring and 

 autumn. {Wintle) A not common spring and autumn migrant 

 in eastern Quebec. {Dionne.) A common migrant at Ottawa. 

 {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) One of the commonest birds among 

 pine and hemlock trees in the earlyCspring; I see numbers every 

 year; I observed them breeding on the Magdalen Islands, in June, 



