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AMERICAN GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. 
The young shot in Newfoundland in August, had this part of the head 
of a uniform tir> 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 Regains, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. i. p. 126. 
Regulus cristatus, 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 
