CUVIER’S KINGLET. 
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ratlier long, 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.. 
CU TIER’S KINGLET. 
Regulus Cuvierii, Aud. 
PLATE CXXXI.— 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, 1812, 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 
having 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 larvas 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. 
Cuvier’s Crested Wren, Regulus Cuvierii , Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 416. 
Cuvier’s Regulus, Regulus Cuvierii , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 288. 
Bill short, straight, subulate, very slender, compressed, with inflected 
