. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 161 and limbs, like the Creepers and Titmice, but they have all the skill of the Warblers in searching the foliage, and they are also such excellent flycatchers that it is difficult for the smallest and swiftest insects to escape them. The Ruby- crowned Kinglet is a mere migrant through the State in fall and spring, but the Go
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. SONG BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 161 and limbs, like the Creepers and Titmice, but they have all the skill of the Warblers in searching the foliage, and they are also such excellent flycatchers that it is difficult for the smallest and swiftest insects to escape them. The Ruby- crowned Kinglet is a mere migrant through the State in fall and spring, but the Golden-crowned Kinglet may be found in our woods, orchards, or shade trees not only in fall and in spring but during the winter, and it breeds in northern Worcester County and in Berkshire County. Golden-crowned Kinglet. Regulus satrapa. Length.—About four inches. Adult Male. — Above, gray and olive-green mainly, with yellowish-olive show- ing decidedly on wings and tail; a bright, glossy orange crown spot, edged with yellow, fronted and bordered on the sides by a black streak, which also is bordered by a whitish streak, above the eye; below, dull grayish-white. Adult Female.—Like male, but lacking the orange center of the crown patch, which is replaced by yellow. Nest. —A ball of moss, feathers, etc., in an evergreen tree. Eggs. — Numerous, white, thickly but faintly speckled with buffy spots. Season. — Resident in some localities, but usually seen between September and April. The Golden-crowned Kinglet probably does not breed in Massachusetts except where the Canadian flora is found on some of the higher lands of the central and western sections. Its note, as commonly heard, is a weak chirp or a fine tsee, tsee, tsee. Its song I cannot attempt to describe. Unfortunately, no careful study of its food habits has ever been made, but it is said to be almost entirely insectivorous. It is believed to feed Fig. 48.—Gowen-crowned _ , _ , ., ,, , . Kinglet, natural size. l
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