OF NEW ENGLAND. 53 
“While spring’s lovely season, serene, dewy, warm, 
“The green face of earth, and the pure blue of heav’n, 
“ Or love’s native music have influence to charm, 
“Or sympathy’s glow to our feelings is® giv’n, 
** Still dear to each bosom the Blue-bird shall be; 
‘His voice, like the thrillings of hope, is a treasure; 
‘For, thro’ bleakest storms if a calm he but see, 
“He comes to remind us of sunshine and pleasure!” 
Norz. The European Stone-chat or ‘ Wheat-ear” (Saaicola 
enanthe) occurs in Northern North America as a wanderer, 
and is included by Dr. Coues in his ‘“‘ List of the Birds of New 
England.” In his “Key” he describes it as follows (the 
length being 5-6 inches?): ‘‘ Adult: —ashy gray; forehead, 
superciliary line and under parts white, latter often brownish- 
tinted ; upper tail coverts white, wings and tail black, latter 
with most of the feathers white for half their length ; line from 
nostril to eye, and broad band on side of head, black; bill and 
feet, black ; young everywhere cinnamon-brown, paler below ; 
a oe 
§3. Sylviide. (See §1.) 
I. REGULUS 
(A) caLenpuLus. Ruby-crowned “Wren.” Ruby-crowned 
‘¢ Kinglet.’’9 
(Common in Massachusetts in April and October.) 
(a). 4-4$ inches long. Above, greenish olive; below, white, 
impure and yellow-tinged. Wings with two white bars, and 
(like the tail) with light edgings. Eye-ring, impure white. 
Crown in mature specimens with a scarlet patch, wanting in 
immature birds (and females?!°); moreover, in some speci- 
mens, small and orange-colored. 
(0). I believe that there is no record of the nest and eggs 
8 In the original ‘‘are,” evidently through inadvertance. 
® These birds have been called “ Kinglets” from their scientific name (Regulus), 
meaning “little king.” 
10T have seen in spring pairs of these birds, highly colored, and apparently fully 
matured, of whom the males had a brilliant carmine patch, and the females no 
patch at all, or none evident. 
