166 AMERICAN GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. 



The young shot in Newfoundland in August, had this part of the head 

 of a uniform tint with the upper parts of the body. With us they are 

 amazingly fat, but at Newfoundland we found them the reverse. I have 

 represented a pair of them on a plant that grows in Georgia, and which I 

 thought might prove agreeable to your eye. 



Golden-crested Wren, Sylvia Regulus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. i. p. 126. 

 Regolus cristatds, Bonap. Syn., p. 91. 



American Fiery-crowned Wren, Regulus tricolor, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 420. 

 American Golden-crested Wren, Regulus tricolor, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 476. 



Adult Male. 



Bill short, straight, subulate, very slender, depressed at the base, com- 

 pressed towards the end. Upper mandible with the dorsal outline nearly 

 straight, the sides convex, the edges inflected towards the end, the tip 

 slightly declinate, with an obscure notch on each side; lower mandible 

 straight, acute. Nostrils basal, elliptical, half-closed above by a membrane, 

 covered over by a single adpressed feather with disunited barbs. Head 

 rather large, neck short, body small. Legs rather long; tarsus slender, 

 much compressed, covered anteriorly with a long undivided plate above, and 

 a few scutella beneath; toes slender, the lateral ones nearly equal and free, 

 the hind toe proportionally large; claws arched, compressed, acute. 



Plumage very loose and tufty. Bristles at the base of the bill. Wings 

 of ordinary length; the first primary extremely short and narrow, the third, 

 fourth, and fifth almost equal, but the fourth longest. Tail of ordinary 

 length, slender, emarginate, of twelve narrow, acuminate feathers, the outer 

 curved outwards towards the end. 



Bill black. Iris brown. Feet brownish-yellow, the under part of the 

 toes yellow. The general colour of the upper parts is ash-grey on the neck 

 and sides of the head, tinged with olive on the back, and changing to 

 yellowish-olive on the rump. There is a band of greyish-white across the 

 lower part of the forehead, which at the eye separates into two bands, one 

 extending over, the other under the eye; above this is a broadish band of 

 black, also margining the head on either side, the inner webs and tips of 

 these black feathers being of a bright pure yellow, of which colour are some 

 of the feathers in the angle formed anteriorly by the dark band; the crown 

 of the head in the included spaces covered with shorter flame-coloured silky 

 feathers; an obscure line of dusky feathers from the angle of the mouth to 

 beneath the eye, which is margined anteriorly and posteriorly with the same 

 colour; the throat and lower parts are greyish-white, tinged anteriorly with 

 yellowish-brown. Quills and coverts dusky, the quills margined with 

 greenish-yellow, the secondary coverts broadly tipped with the same, as is 



