Regului 



in June, 

 beneath 

 Qi'aking 

 Moiintai 

 branch u 

 attracted 

 and intt 

 to climb 

 aipl 



calendula. Ruby-crowned Kinglet. — A verj abundant 

 ■esident throughout this area, except in the lowest pines where 

 if occurring at all in summer. I saw it close to the timber line 

 A nest and clutch of fresh eggs were taken in a spruce-tree 

 A-hich my tent had been pitched, at Mehrens' stock ranch in 

 Asp Settlement, in a notch at the summit of the MogoUon 

 s, on Mav 26, 1887. It was attached to the end of a horizontal 

 ipwards of a hundred feet above the ground, where attention was 

 to it by the actions of the parents. Our chief packer, a strong 

 epid climber, secured the nest and eggs, with the parent, having 

 the tree twice and saw off the limb, before the hazardous feat was 

 ished. The parents were extremelj fearless. 



Avkt VII. July, 1800. p, 



Reguliis calendula.— The Ruby-crowned Kinglet, given as "one of the 

 many birds which mark the distinction between the Canadian and Alle- 

 ghanian Faunse, being apparently limited by the former in its southward 

 range during the breeding season," has not actually been ascertained to 

 breed in the Canadian Fauna at all. Boardman alone has catalogued it 

 as a rare " summer visitant," but none of the recent investigators have 

 detected it excepting in the migrations. Its southward range in summer 

 is much more likely to prove limited by the Hudsonian than the Canadian 

 Fauna. 



BuJi. N.O.O. e.Oct. I881,p. ^3%. 



713- Ruby-crowned King-let By Fred. T. Jencks. Ibid, r>. ac.— Only 

 males found to have crests. 0i&O»VoZ,Vm " 



726. Rnby-crowncd Kinglet. By Wm. Brewster. Ibid., p.'se.— 

 Females, as a rule, lack the scarlet crown-patch. O, & Q^Yolt^ltl 



Publications Received.— Beckham, C. W. Remarks on the plumage of ■ 

 Re^ulus calendula. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, No. 40, Dec. 1885. ) 



756. Hiiby-Cromned Kinglet. By D. D. Stone. Ibid., pp. 83, 84.— 

 Its nesl, eggs, and breeding habits as observed in Colorado. 



