. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. nUBV-CROWNED WREN. ill trctcli. Above dull low-olive. Feathers 1h color only viitiblw overtH pure yellow. l-l'i-atliiTH Himilnr to Hill diitU horn-color. Hiuiilur. ) ry Blonder, siilinlnfp, he middle, lurniHlied inewhat bent in ; the ,e curved at the tip. ine, and additionally impound IVather«. r; tarsus lonjjer thnii ach other ; the inner til a larger and thick- spuriouH leather very • lat and 7th equal. e ; but the young are aally. The plumage lented with a brilliant Uesl of birds in tem-
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. nUBV-CROWNED WREN. ill trctcli. Above dull low-olive. Feathers 1h color only viitiblw overtH pure yellow. l-l'i-atliiTH Himilnr to Hill diitU horn-color. Hiuiilur. ) ry Blonder, siilinlnfp, he middle, lurniHlied inewhat bent in ; the ,e curved at the tip. ine, and additionally impound IVather«. r; tarsus lonjjer thnii ach other ; the inner til a larger and thick- spuriouH leather very • lat and 7th equal. e ; but the young are aally. The plumage lented with a brilliant Uesl of birds in tem- ler, but migrate, as it ammer they penetrate eat activity, being un- ect», ond in collecting f are seen vaulting on ,11 directions for their great art, and adixed two broods in the sea- ts 12. — They inhabit indifferently probably closely allied both to RUBY-CROWNED WRKN. {Rtgulus ealrnilulug, , Bonap. Sifhia ealrmlula, Wilsow, i. p. «3. pi. 5. fig. 3. riiil. Museum, No. 7211.) Sp. CiMnAcT. -Olivaceous; beneath whitish i crown vermilion, and without the black margin. This beautiful little species passes the .summer and breediiif; season in the colder parts of the North-Ameri- can continent, penetrating even to the dreary of Greenland, wiiere, as well as around Hudson's Bay, they prohahiy rear their young in solitude, and obtain abundance! of the diminutive Hying insects, gnats, and cynips, on wiiich, with small caterpillars, they and their young delight to feed. In the montiis of October and November, the approach of winter in their natal regions stimulates them to migrate towards the South, when they arrive in the Eastern and Middle States, and fre- quent in a familiar and unsuspicious manner the gardens and orcliards: how far they proceed to the south is un- certain. On the 12th of Jantiary I observed them near Charleston, South Carolina, with ; of Si/lrlas, busily darting through the evergreens in swampy situa- tions, in quest of food,
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