. Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ue licks off the garden foliage literally like a streak of lightning. Both parents feed the young by regurgitation—a processdisgusting to the human observer, whose stomach involuntarilyrevolts at the sight so welcome to the tiny, squeaking, hungrybirds. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) Kinglet family Called also: RUBY-CROWNED WREN; RUBY-CROWNED WARBLER Length—^ to inches. About two inches smaller than the English —Upper
. Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ue licks off the garden foliage literally like a streak of lightning. Both parents feed the young by regurgitation—a processdisgusting to the human observer, whose stomach involuntarilyrevolts at the sight so welcome to the tiny, squeaking, hungrybirds. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) Kinglet family Called also: RUBY-CROWNED WREN; RUBY-CROWNED WARBLER Length—^ to inches. About two inches smaller than the English —Upper parts grayish olive-green, brighter nearer the tail; wings and tail dusky, edged with yellowish olive. Two whitish wing-bars. Breast and underneath light yellowish gray. In the adult male a vermilion spot on crown of his ash-gray —Similar, but without the vermilion —North America. Breeds from northern United States northward. Winters from southern limits of its breeding range to Central America and —October. April. Rarely a winter resident at the North. Most common during its migrations. 172. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET,liife-size. Green, Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish Olive Birds A trifle larger than the golden-crowned kinglet, with a ver-milion crest instead of a yellow and flame one, and with a decidedpreference for a warmer winter climate, and the ruby-crowns chiefdistinguishing characteristics are told. These rather confusingrelatives would be less puzzling if it were the habit of either tokeep quiet long enough to focus the opera-glasses on theircrowns, which it only rarely is while some particularly promisinghaunt of insects that lurk beneath the rough bark of the ever-greens has to be thoroughly explored. At all other times bothkinglets keep up an incessant fluttering and twinkling amongthe twigs and leaves at the ends of the branches, jerking theirtiny bodies from twig to twig in the shrubbery, hanging headdownward, hke
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