of the State College, at which place a girl said of his song: 
‘fle sings with the recklessness of a professional.’ His 
joyous trill ended with an “I know it! I know it!” which 
made the listeners glad that he could know and tell about it. 
The Pullman birds were unusually kind, for one male 
gat still long enough to preen his feathers with his bill and © 
toes until two others came into his particular bush. One of 
the newcomers was a male bird whose crown blazed, while 
he spread his scarlet spot until it seemed to cover his whole 
head as he dashed furiously at the other male and the un- 
crowned female watched the struggle for her company. The 
first bird was not much of a fighter, or not anxious for a 
mate, for, after springing from one branch to another — 
~ geveral times and dodging a few blows, he left the pair to 
discuss his cowardice. | 
: A man who knows birds (Daveon, in The Birds of Wash: 
ington) has written that in the Pacifie district, breeding 
from British Columbia to Alaska, we have a second kinglet 
all our own, bearing the name of Sitkan ruby-crowned king- 
let. It is much darker than the other kinglets, due probably 
to the damp climate. A pair were seen several times one ° 
winter near Bremerton, Washington, in company with 
- chestnut-backed chickadees and rusty song sparrows 
gleaning insect fare from a wild rose thicket. They were 
quite willing to get acquainted, for they came down at a 
whistled invitation, looking the observer over with the same | 
sort of curiosity that she had in viewing them. ee 
The whole of Western North America has still another 
member of the little king family which may: be found at 
times breeding from Mt. Whitney, California, northward 
through eastern Oregon and Colorado to Kadiak Island, 
Alaska. Wherever there are cone-bearing trees, at any 
season of the year, you may run across the western golden- 
crowned kinglet, a brighter variety of the eastern bird. He 
may be known from his cousion, the ruby-crowns, by the 
difference in his head trimmings and lack of wing bars. 
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