. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. BIRDS OF AMERICA GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET Regulus satrapa satrapa Lichtcnstcln A. n. U. 748 Other Names.— Goldeii-crested Kinglet: Gnlden- crowned Wren; Flame-crest: Fiery-crowned Wren: Gold-crest. General Description.— Length, 4'4 inches. Upper parts, gray : under parts, olive-whitish. Color.— Adult M.\le: Front portion of forehead and a broad stripe over the eyes, dull white or pale gray: within this a broad J'-shapcd mark of black, inclosing a narroiccr one of ycUozi', icithiii u'liich is a large fiatcli of bright orange or cadmium orange.
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. BIRDS OF AMERICA GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET Regulus satrapa satrapa Lichtcnstcln A. n. U. 748 Other Names.— Goldeii-crested Kinglet: Gnlden- crowned Wren; Flame-crest: Fiery-crowned Wren: Gold-crest. General Description.— Length, 4'4 inches. Upper parts, gray : under parts, olive-whitish. Color.— Adult M.\le: Front portion of forehead and a broad stripe over the eyes, dull white or pale gray: within this a broad J'-shapcd mark of black, inclosing a narroiccr one of ycUozi', icithiii u'liich is a large fiatcli of bright orange or cadmium orange. occupying center of crown and projecting over back of head: back of head (beneath rear portion of orange-colored crest), hindneck, and upper back, mouse-gray: rest of back, grayish-olive, changing grad- ually into brighter or more greenish-olive on rump and upper tail-coverts : wings and tail, dusky with light yellowish-olive edgings; the middle and greater wing- coverts, broadly tipped with pale olive-yellow or yel- lowish-white: secondaries crossed by a basal (con- cealed) band of pale yellow, immediately succeeded by an exposed one of dusky; an indistinct, or at least not sharply defined, dusky streak across the lores and back of the eyes, and, usually, a similar streak at the corner of the mouth: rest of sides of head, together with under parts, plain dull olive-whitish, the sides and flanks faintly tinged with more yellowish-olive: Si-f (-,,l,,r I'latc 104 iris, brown. .Adult Female: Similar to the adult male, but orange crown-patch entirely replaced by canary-yellow. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : Spherical, about four and a half inches in diameter, composed exteriorly chiefly of green moss, lined with fine strips of bark and fine rootlets, surmounted by numerous feathers of various wild birds, arranged with points of quills downward and forming a screen that effectually conceals the eggs; semi-pensile or not, being sometiines supported beneath and sometimes fastened by
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