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a paler reflection of her mate’s gorgeousness on top of her 
head. It is a comfort to find the mother wearing a visible 
coronet, for so often with birds (as with people) the mo¬ 
ther’s crown is witheld, the dear little creatures go on car¬ 
rying their domestic burdens with no apparent glory of re¬ 
ward, save that appreciation which we hope exists in the 
hearts of their mates. So I think it must thrill the chiv¬ 
alrous spirit of this little golden-crowned king to have his 
wife’s stripe of glory as much in evidence to the world as 
it is to him, and that he is glad to know that his Eady Reg- 
ulus has the outward, visible sign always on her queenly 
little head. May I often have the chance to salute her gold¬ 
en coronet. 
The ruby-crowned kinglet (Regulus calendula) does not 
winter with us, but is often seen with the golden crowned, 
in migrations. Snyder carried us directly into a flock of 
both on October twentieth, (1901,) when the birds were 
flitting around the low birches. Fearless little creatures, 
one cannot see why they frequent the pine tree tops now, 
unless it be for the love of the winter sky. Why not come 
down to earth, oh Kinglet, and live with us on our sheltered 
acre, and try a diet of raw bones and frozen suet, along 
with our two nuthatches and two woodpeckers? You would 
there have two ardent admirers gazing at 3^011 from the 
house, and Snyder to whinney at you from the window of 
his box-stall, and, after all, the same sky over you. 
Chicadees and goldfinches were on the sheltered side of 
these same woods on this brown-creeper, kinglet day. Both 
birds were giving their characteristic calls, and talking a- 
way to their neighbors, quite like women at an afternoon 
tea. So here were four rather rare birds seen from a sleigh 
in one morning. Encouraged by our success in a few days 
we went to the same spot, and this time Snyder stopped un¬ 
der trees where there were strange birds to us. We could 
hardly believe our Bausch & Eomb, yet there they were, 
