. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 180 Div. 1. VERTEBRATE ANIMALS.—AVES. Class 2. The immense group of Sylvicoles (Sylvicola), peculiar to America, certainly appear to have some relationship with the Dunnocks, but are probably slender-billed modifications of the same great type as the Tanagers. The Kinglets {Regulus, Cuv.)— Have a slender bill, forming a perfect and very sharp cone, the sides of which even appear a little concave when viewed from above. They are small birds, which li
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 180 Div. 1. VERTEBRATE ANIMALS.—AVES. Class 2. The immense group of Sylvicoles (Sylvicola), peculiar to America, certainly appear to have some relationship with the Dunnocks, but are probably slender-billed modifications of the same great type as the Tanagers. The Kinglets {Regulus, Cuv.)— Have a slender bill, forming a perfect and very sharp cone, the sides of which even appear a little concave when viewed from above. They are small birds, which live among trees, and pursue Gnats. Among European species, we have The Golden-crowned Kinglet (Mot. regiuus, Lin.),—which is the smallest of European birds, greenish-olive above, yellowish-white below, the head of the male marked with a brilliant golden-yellovr crest, bordered with black, [which latter can open or close nearly over it; in the female the coronal feathers are pale yellow]. It con- structs a globular nest on trees, with a lateral opening, suspends itself on their boughs in all positions, like a Tit, and approaches human habitations in the winter; [is very animated, and utters a shrill weak song in the breeding season]. A still smaller [or rather a somewhat larger] species has recently been distinguished, the crest of which inclmes more to reddish, and which has a black streak before and behind the eye [with a white line on each side of the crest] (Reg. ignapHlus, Naum). [This bird is of rare occurrence in the British isles, where the first is very common. A third has still more recently been detected in Dalmatia, and since in England, with only a pale central yellow line in place of the crest, but a bright yellow streak over each eye (R. modestus, Gould). This species wants a remarkable character of the others, which is, that the nostrils are covered by a single feather, that grows over them. There are several more, allied to the two first, in Asia and Americ
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