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rather lone;, arched, much compressed, acute. Plumage very loose and full. 

 Short bristles at the base of the bill. Feathers of the head elongated and 

 silky in the adults. Wings of ordinary length, with the first quill very 

 small, the fourth and fifth longest. Tail of ordinary length, emarginate. 



CUVIER'S KINGLET. 



- Regulus Cuvierii, Aud. 

 PLATE CXXXL— Male. 



I named this pretty and rare species after Baron Cuvier, not merely by 

 way of acknowledgment for the kind attentions which I received at the 

 hands of that deservedly celebrated naturalist, but as a homage due by every 

 student of nature to one unrivalled in the knowledge of General Zoology. 



I shot the bird represented in the Plate, on my father-in-law's plantation 

 of Fatland Ford, on the Schuylkill river in Pennsylvania, on the 8th of 

 June, 1S12, while on a visit to my honoured relative Mr. William Bake- 

 well. The drawing which I then made I kept for a long time without 

 ha\ r ing described the bird from which it was taken. I killed this little bird, 

 supposing it to be one of its relatives, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, whilst it 

 was searching for insects and larvse amongst the leaves and blossoms of the 

 Kalmia latifolia, on a branch of which you see it represented, and was not 

 aware of its being a different bird until I picked it up from the ground. I 

 have not seen another since, nor have I been able to learn that this species 

 has been observed by any other individual. It might, however, be very 

 easily mistaken for the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, the manners of which appear 

 to be much the same. 



The Kalmia latifolia grows in great profusion in the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and along the range of the Alleghanies, in all rocky and hilly 

 situations. 



Ccvier's Crested Wren, Regulus Cuvierii, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 416. 

 Covier's Regulus, Regulus Cuvierii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 288. 



Bill short, straight, subulate, very slender, compressed, with inflected 



