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Little more can be said in respect to the Golden-crested Kinglet 
(Regulus satrapa,' Licht.). Its range is nearly as extensive, but more 
northerly; it does not descend in winter beyond Mexico.' Nothing 
is known with certainty of its breeding anywhere in the United 
States, although it may be found to do so in the northern moun¬ 
tainous portions. Mr. Thomas G. Gentry is confident that it nidi¬ 
ficates in cavities in the tall trees which crown the heights of Eastern 
Pennsylvania, despite the generally accepted notion that it follows 
its foreign cousin in building a pensile nest and laying white eggs, 
finely sprinkled with buff dots, in size about equal to those of 
Humming-birds. It has also been inferred that this Kinglet raises 
two broods in a season. Mr. Nuttall and Dr. Cooper both found it 
feeding full-fledged young on the Columbia River, on May 21; and 
Audubon observed the same thing in Labrador in August. Mr. 
Maynard found it common at Lake Umbagog, Me., in June; he 
says it breeds there, and that, judging from the condition of female 
specimens dissected, it deposits its eggs about June 1. Several 
pairs were found in the thick woods there, but no nests could be 
discovered; he thought they built, probably, in the long hanging- 
moss so abundant on the trees in those northern forests. Mr. Her¬ 
rick puts it down positively as breeding on the island of Grand Menan, 
and Dr. Brewer in Maine. Mr. Allen informs me that he met with 
young, attended by the parents, the third week in August, 1876, 
on Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire, which he has no doubt 
were hatched in the immediate vicinity. Mr. J. K. Lord states that 
these birds were abundant on Vancouver’s Island and the adjacent 
coast, where he found them building pensile nests suspended from 
the tips of high pine branches, in which they laid from five to seven 
eggs. He does not describe the eggs, which was hardly to be ex¬ 
pected, perhaps, considering the half-use he seems to have made of 
his opportunities. 
Herr F. W. Baedeker has figured the egg in the “ Journal fur 
Ornithologie ” (1856, p. 33, PI. I, Fig. 8), and also in his large work 
on the eggs of the birds of Europe. Dr. Coues observes, in a pri¬ 
vate communication to me, “ The plate indicates a rather roundish 
egg, though the two specimens figured differ noticeably in size and 
shape ; they are spoken of in the text as 1 niedliche kleine Eirchen 
mit lehmgelben ben Flekschen auf weissen Grande,’ and compared 
with those of other species illustrated on the same plate.” 
Regulus cuvieri , described by Audubon from a specimen taken 
near the banks of the Schuylkill River, has remained unknown to 
ornithologists ever since. 
M-nU , BullN.O.C. I, Nov,- 18-70. p. 7^7*. 
