. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . hese active birds, we frequently observenumerous dainty Golden-crowned Kinglets, cheerfiilly hopping through trees andshrubs, always on the look-out for insedts and their eggs and larvae. It is truly astonish-ing, how these delicate pigmies are able to survive a temperature of 20 to 30° below times, when the branches are covered with snow and ice, so that the birds are unableto f
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . hese active birds, we frequently observenumerous dainty Golden-crowned Kinglets, cheerfiilly hopping through trees andshrubs, always on the look-out for insedts and their eggs and larvae. It is truly astonish-ing, how these delicate pigmies are able to survive a temperature of 20 to 30° below times, when the branches are covered with snow and ice, so that the birds are unableto find sufficient food, they do, indeed, appear to lose their good spii-it, and hop moreslowly about with rufiled plumage. Mr. Ridgways admirable plate introduces us to ableak winter-landscape, the monotony of which is broken by the two charmino- littleGolden-crowned Kinglets. It appears to be of a more hardy nature than the Ruby-crown, and better enabledto endure the rigors of a northern winter. Doubtless the majority of these birds alsomove further south, passing the winter in great numbers in the South Atlantic and GuhStates, In Texas, I found the Golden-crown to be one of the most abundant of all VII. RK(UTLrs SATRARV Kinglet. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 101 birds, from November to March. In Wisconsin and Illinois, it usually arrives from itsnorthern breeding-range toward the beginning of October, often in company with itsnear relative, the Ruby-crown. — That the true home of the former species is in the fir,pine, and spruce woods of the North is proved by its predilection for coniferous trees,even during migration. In Wisconsin, it is most likely to be found wherever the whitepine and hemlock grow; and in northern Illinois, it prefers to haunt those ornamentalgardens and parks which are planted with different species of conifers. In south-easternTexas, the bird is to be found, as a rule, only in the extensive woodlands of long-leaved pine. Only when
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