. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . s. Washington, abundant W. V., Oct. 5 to Apl. 27. Sing Sing, commonW. v., Sept. 20 to Apl. 28. Cambridge, very common T. V., common W. V.,Sept. 20 to Apl. 25. Nest., generally pensile, of green mosses, lined with fine strips of soft innerbark, fine black rootlets, and feathers, in coniferous trees, six to sixty feetfrom the -ground. E(j(js., nine to ten, creamy white to muddy cream-color,speckled and blotched with pale wood-bro\, and, rarely, faint lavender,•55 X -44. (See Brewster, Auk, v, 1888, p. 337.) This Kinglet resembles in habits its Ruby-
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . s. Washington, abundant W. V., Oct. 5 to Apl. 27. Sing Sing, commonW. v., Sept. 20 to Apl. 28. Cambridge, very common T. V., common W. V.,Sept. 20 to Apl. 25. Nest., generally pensile, of green mosses, lined with fine strips of soft innerbark, fine black rootlets, and feathers, in coniferous trees, six to sixty feetfrom the -ground. E(j(js., nine to ten, creamy white to muddy cream-color,speckled and blotched with pale wood-bro\, and, rarely, faint lavender,•55 X -44. (See Brewster, Auk, v, 1888, p. 337.) This Kinglet resembles in habits its Ruby-crowned cousin, withwhich during the migrations it is frequently associated. Its notes,however, are quite unlike those of that species, its usual call-note beinga fine, high ti-ti, audible only to practiced ears. In his extended ac-count of the nesting habits of this species, as observed by him inWorcester County, Mass. (Auk, I. c), Mr. Brewster writes that its song*begins with a succession of five or six fine, shrill, high-pitched, some-. KINGLETS AND GNATCATCPIERS. 393 what faltering notes, and ends with a short, rapid, rather explosivewarble. The opening notes are given in a rising key, but the songfalls rapidly at the end. The whole may be expressed as follows: tzee,tzee, tzee, tzee, ti, ti, ter, ti-fi-ti-ti. Muffled in its thick coat of feathers, the diminutive Goldcrestbraves our severest winters, living evidence that, given an abundanceof food, temperature is a secondary factor in a birds existence. 749. Regulus calendula* (Linn.). Euby-crowned Kinglet. (SeeFig. 58, a.) Ad. 3 .—Crown with a partly concealed crest of bright red ; restof upper parts grayish olive-green, brighter on the rump; wings and tail fus-cous, edged with olive-green; two Avhitish wing-bars; tail slightly forked,the middle feathers shortest; under parts soiled whitish, more or less tingedAvith butfy. Ad. 9 and Im.—Similar, but without the red crown-patch. L.,4-41 ; W., 2-24 ; T., 173; B., -29. R
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