. Everyday birds; elementary studies . part of the birds have it, — the adult males,perhaps, — and even those that have it do notalways display it. The. orange or yellow of thegoldcrest, on the other hand, is worn by all thebirds, and is never concealed. K you are a be-ginner in bird study, uncertain of your species,look for the black stripes on the crown. If theyare not there, and the bird is really a kinglet, itmust be a ruby-crown. You may know it, also,— from the goldcrest, I mean, — by what lookslike a light-colored ring round the eye. Infact, one of the ruby-crowns most noticeable
. Everyday birds; elementary studies . part of the birds have it, — the adult males,perhaps, — and even those that have it do notalways display it. The. orange or yellow of thegoldcrest, on the other hand, is worn by all thebirds, and is never concealed. K you are a be-ginner in bird study, uncertain of your species,look for the black stripes on the crown. If theyare not there, and the bird is really a kinglet, itmust be a ruby-crown. You may know it, also,— from the goldcrest, I mean, — by what lookslike a light-colored ring round the eye. Infact, one of the ruby-crowns most noticeablepeculiarities is a certain bareheaded, large-eyedappearance. Unless your home is near or beyond thenorthern boundary of the United States, youneed not look for either kinglet in ruby-crown is to be seen during its migra-tions in spring and fall, the goldcrest in fall,winter, and spring. At any time of the year they are well worthknowing. Nobody could look at them withoutadmiration; so pretty, so tiny, and so exceed-. GOLDEN-CRO\VNED KINGLET/ , iilale. a. Feutaie TWO LITTLE KINGS 3 ingly quick and graceful in their motions. Bothspecies are of a prevailing greenish or olive shade,with noticeable light-colored wing-bars, and light,unstreaked, unspotted under parts. The ruby-crown is famous as a singer. Agenuine music-box, we may call* him. In spring,especially, he is often bubbling over with melody;a rapid, wren-like tune, with sundry quirks andturns that are all his own; on the whole de-cidedly original, with plenty of what musicalpeople call accent and a strongly marked rhythmor swing. Ovjer and over he goes with it, as ifhe could never have enough; beginning withquick, separate, almost guttural notes, and wind-ing up with a twittity, twittity, twittity, which,once heard, is not likely to be soon forgotten. A very pleasing vocalist he surely is; andwhen his extreme smallness is taken into accounthe is fairly to be esteemed a musical one who has w
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