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incorrectly called, makes it appearance from the south about the first of 
April and remains until the first week in May. It reappears the 
first of October and remains through November. Its food consists of 
hybernating insects and their eggs which it gleans busily from the tops 
of the highest trees and lowest bushes. It is one of the tamest and most 
unsuspecting of our birds, allowing the presence of man within a few feet 
of it without manifesting any fear or annoyance. While thus engaged it 
frequently utters a short wheezing note resembling the syllables ‘‘weese- 
weese-weese.” More rarely it sings a continous song, which is noted for its 
clearness, sweetness and variety. ! 
Mr. Read, speaking of their occurence in Northern Ohio, says he 
has “shot them in pairs in the middle of summer, one answering the 
discription of the male, the other plainer and without the ruby crown.” 
No authentic account of their nesting in Eastern North America is 
given, although they have been found through the summer in several 
localities in the Eastern States. Mr. Henshaw found them breeding in 
Colorado. 
REGULUS SATRAPA Licht. 
Golden-Crested Kinglet. 
Regulus cristatus, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163. 
Regulus tricolor, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv, 1838, 163.—RkEaD, Proc. Philad. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. vi. 1853, 395. 
Regulus satrapa, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 363; Reprint, 1861, 5; Food of birds, 
etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 562; Reprint, 1875, 2—LANGDoN, Cat. Birds of Cin., 
1877, 3; Revised List, Journ. Civ. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 170; Reprint, 4. 
Regulus cristatus, BARTRAM, Trav. Fla., 1791, 291. 
Regulus satrapa, ‘‘ LICHTENSTEIN, Verz., 1823.” 
Regulus tricolor, NUTTALL, Man., i, 1832, 420. 
General color as in the preceding. Crown bordered in front and on sides by black, 
inclosing a yellow and flame-colored patch (in the male; in the female the scarlet is 
wanting.) Extreme forehead and line over the eye whitish. Young, if ever without 
traces of black on the head, may be told from the last species by smaller size and the 
presence of a tiny bristly feather overlying the nostril; this wanting in calendula. Size 
of the preceding. 
Habitat, North America. 
Abundant. Winter Resident. Appears late in October or early in 
November and remains until April. The description given of the habits 
of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet applies equally to this species. On the 
whole it appears to be more northern in its distribution both in summer 
and winter, though Mr. Read says of them, “like the preceding, remains 
in pairs throughout the summer.” The nest and eggs are undescribed. 
Dr. Kirtland describes the occurence of another member of this family 
