. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 78 REGULINiE, KINGLETS. POIjIOPTILINiE, ONATCATCHERS. GEN. 9, 10. xevy common in our woods, thickets and orcliards. liave a sweet son"'. Migratory, insectivorous : y 9. Genus REGITLUS Cuvier. *,*Greenisli-olive, below wliitisla or yellowish; wings and tail dusky, edged with greenish or yellowish, wing coverts whitish-tipped. 4-41 long, win
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 78 REGULINiE, KINGLETS. POIjIOPTILINiE, ONATCATCHERS. GEN. 9, 10. xevy common in our woods, thickets and orcliards. liave a sweet son"'. Migratory, insectivorous : y 9. Genus REGITLUS Cuvier. *,*Greenisli-olive, below wliitisla or yellowish; wings and tail dusky, edged with greenish or yellowish, wing coverts whitish-tipped. 4-41 long, wing 2^â2^ ; tail U-lf. \ Baby-crowned Kinglet. Crown witli a rich scarlet patch (in botli sexes, 'â '^ but wanting in both the first year) ; no black about head ; bill and feet black. North America. Wils., i, 83, pi. 5, f. i; NuTT., i, 415; Aud., ii, 1G8, pi. 133; Bd., 227. calendulus. Golden-crovmed Kin/jlet. Crown bordered iu front and on sides by black, inclosing a yellow and flame colored patch (in the <J ; in the 9 , the scarlet wanting) ; extreme fore- head, and line over e3e, whitish; young, if ever without traces of black and yellow on the head, nia}' be told from the last species, by smaller size and presence of a tiny bristly feather overlying the nostrils ; this is want- ing in ccdendiduf^. North -j:i>^ Fig. 19. Golden-cro"vmed Kinglet. WiLS., i, 12(5, pi. 8, f. 2; Aud., ii, , pi. 132; Bd., 227 satrapa. Obs. Cuvier's Kinglet (i?. cuvieri Aud., ii, 163, pi. 131 ; Nutt., i, 416, Schuyl- kill River, June, 1812), not now known, is said to have tivo black stripes on each side of head. JR. tricolor Nutt., i, 420, is B. satrapa; so is his R. cristatus, which is the name of the European species, not found in North America. Subfamily POLIOPTILINJE. GnatcatcJiers. Tarsus not booted, and wings not longer than the rounded tail; bill slender (too thick in the tigs.), depressed and well bristled at base ; tip evidently overhanging (not in the figs.) ; tars
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