ligi aiioii, Brist«i County, Ma.». 

 ^885 . Charles H. Andros . 



Regulus satrapa._My experience with this species at Winchendo 

 Jiven fully in another article in this number of 'The Auk.' 



Axik, V, Oct., 1888. p. 393 



\ Kinglets fOA^ /yyn/^CK^ iLyOC<^cvC', 



sU)i-my. Golden-crowned King-| ]ets 

 O.&O. XI. Jan.lSSQ.p.i/ 



Birds of Bristol County, Mass. 

 P. W. Andros. 



O.&O. :XI.M-iy.l886.p.77 



I Regulus satrapa Llcht., Golden-crowned 

 I Kinglet. Winter visitant, common. 



0.&O.XII.Sept.l887 p.141 



Bd«. Obs. oeat <lc»yioQk Mt. Berkshire 

 Oo. Mass. June28~ JulylS. W. Faxon 



May 30. To woods all day. Teste 

 saw pair of Golde n-cr owned King 



■day 

 ets ; 



hunted for nest all day and came home at 

 seven in the evening, tired out with chasing 

 the birds about and climbing a few million 

 trees. Went at it again at half past eight this 

 morning and at twenty minutes past one 1 had 

 the nest. 1 was about done up, as it was hard 

 work and took a lot of patience, (something 

 til at I do not possess to any very great extent). 

 Nest is up about forty feet and away out on 

 the end of black spruce limb. 1 did not 

 examine it as bird was carrying stuff to it, 

 and 1 take it that she has not completed the 

 building. This makes three Golden-crowned 

 Kinglets I have found ; one on June 2, 1889, 

 with nine eggs and one on June 14th, that 

 contained young. I find this species is 

 very hard to place, as they make very little 

 noise and keep way up high on the trees. I 

 saw a pair of "Ruby" but could not locate 

 nest and will try it again. The $ Ruby is 

 very misleading as he covers the ground for 

 fully a mile square and the 9 is not to be 

 seen. I found nest of Olive-backed Thrush 

 just about built. This was on a little spruce 

 tree about seven feet up from the ground. 

 Will go at the Ruby Kinglet's again to-morrow. 

 I examined the Golden-crowned Kinglet's nesi 

 found May 30th and it was full of young, so I, 

 was wrong in thinking it was material that; 

 the 9 was carrying on the 30th ult. I found 

 a Hummingbird's nest with two eggs. Looked 

 at Olive-backed Thrusli found the 30th ult. 

 and it held two eggs which were greenish-blue | 

 with red spots. • 



"73. Regulu 



a,C^lU0f GiMV 



in rail summe 

 vvliich tlie ciirr 



latrapa. Golden- 

 clv on June 3S, 1 di 

 ong in the thick st 

 i-oad passes belV 



KOWNED Kinglet. — During my first 

 covered the Golden-crowned Kinglet 

 ■ond gi-owtli of bhick spruce through 

 -eemeruing into the 'Mountain Pas- 



2200 feet. I afterward found the Kinglet to 

 mountain in 

 limits of the 



ture." Approximate altitude 



l3e a not uncommon bird at this place and higher up < 

 tlie primitive spruces. It has been recorded from 

 CatskilLs bv Mr. T. M. Trippe* altliough Mr. Bicknellf failed to identify 

 it in the same region at a later date. J 



*Amer. Nat., VI, 47, 1872. 



f Trans. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1, 144, 1882. 



iSince this was wriuen Mr. William Brewster lias published an account of the 

 breeding of the Golden-crowned Kinglet in Winchendon, Worcester Co., Mass. 

 (Auk, V, 337, Oct., 188S). In Dr. Emmons's catalogue of Massachusetts birds 

 (Hitchcock's 'Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachu- 

 setts', 1B33) this bird is marked as breeding in the State. As professor in Williams 

 College, almost within tlie shadow of Graylock, Dr. Emmons had ample opportunity 

 to know of the bird's presence on the mounlain in the breeding season, although his 

 authority in this case seems to have been universally discredited. In the second edition' 

 of this catalogue, 183s, Deiidroica maculosa and Sitta canadensis, both common in the 

 Graylock region in summer, are also marked as breeding in Massachusetts, although 

 not admitted in this role to recent lists unfil Mr. Allen's revised catalogue of 1886, on 

 Mr. Brewster's authority. In the light of the recent tesdmony to the accuracy of 

 Emmons's catalogue it is worthy of note that Dendroica castanea\i also marked by 

 him as "breeding, rare." Is it not possible that in Dr. Emmons's day, before the destruc- 

 tion of the great coniferous forest of Graylock had gone very far, this bird found a 

 congenial breeding ground there, as it still does in the White Mountains of New 

 Hampshire? 



Auk, VI. April, 1889. p. 105 



General Notee. 

 <-'Oimt.iy,Ma,sfi. In n.AIW »alph Hoff 



27. Regulus satrapa. Golden-crowned Kinglet. — F( 

 woods in Becket, Washington, and northward. — Frani 

 West Roxbnry, Mass. 



und 

 [s II. 



1 spruce 

 Allen, 



Auk XII. Jan. 1806 p. 89 



