392 KINGLETS AND GNATCATCIIHRS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     known species are found in the New World; (3) the Polioptilina’, or 
     
     Gnateatehers. an American group containing about fifteen species. 
     
     three of which are found in the United States. 
     
    

    
     The Kinglets and Gnateatehers are active little birds, and com 
     
     stantly Ilit from limb to limb in their search for food. They are pos- 
     
     sessed of decided character, build remarkably beautiful nests, and seine 
     
     species are noteworthy songsters. 
     
    

    
     KEY TO Tlll‘l SPECIES. 
     
     A. With a brighteolored crest. 
     
     a. Crest ruby, without black . . 740. Ri'm’mnow‘s‘fih KINGLET (Ad. 6). 
     
     l). Crest yellow, or orange and yellow, bordered by blaek. 
     
     74S. GOLDIiN—CIKHVNED KINGLm‘. 
     
     B. Without a colored crest. 
     
     a. Back ashy blue; outer tail—feathers white. 
     
     751. BLt'r-onn‘ GNATCATCIIER. 
     
     b. Back olive—green; no white in tail. RrBY—cnowxicu KINGLET ( 9 and inn). 
     
    
   
   
    
     748. Regulus satrapa. 14270715. Goumx—cnowkwn KINGLET. Ad. 6. 
     
     ——Ccnter of crown bright reddish orange, bordered by yellow and black; a 
     
     whitish line over the eye; rest- of upper parts olive—green; wings and tail 
     
     fuseous, niargined with olive-green; tail slightly 
     
     forked ; under parts soiled whitish. Ar]. 9 .—-Sim- 
     
     ilar, but crown without orange, its center bright, 
     
     yellow. bordered on either side by black. L., 4'07; 
     
     \V., 2'14; T.,1'75; H.128. 
     
    

    
     Range—North America; breeds from the 
     
     northern United States northward. and southward 
     
     along the Rockies into Mexico. and in the Alle— 
     
     glmnies to North Carolina: winters from the 
     
     southern limit 01' its breeding range to the Gulf 
     
     States. 
     
    

    
     “'ashington, abundant \Y. \'.. (let. 5m Ap]. '37. Sing Sing, common 
     
     W. V., Sept. 20 to _\pl. 15%. (.‘ainbridge, \‘cry common '1'. \'.. connnon W. \'., 
     
     Sept. ‘30 to Apl. 2:3. 
     
    

    
     i\7/~t, generally pcnsile, of green mosses, lined with fine strips of soft inner 
     
     bark, fine black rootlets, and feathers, in coniferous trees, six to sixty feet 
     
     from the ground. [Liv/gm, nine to ten, creamy white to muddy cream—color, 
     
     s welded and blotehed with pale wuod—broun, and, rarely, faint lavender, 
     
     '55 x '44. (See Brewster, Auk, v. 1““, p. 337-) 
     
    

    
     This Kinglet resembles in habits its Ruby-crowned cousin, with 
     
     whieh during the migrations it is frequently associated. lts notes. 
     
     however, are quite unlike those of that species, its usual call-note being 
     
     a fine. high li-IL'. audible only to practiced ears. In his extended ae- 
     
     count of the nesting habits of this species, as observed by him in 
     
     Worcester County, Mass. (Auk, l. 6.), Mr. Brewster writes that its song 
     
     “ begins with a succession of five or six fine, shrill, high-pitched, some- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Fm. 115.7 Golden-enm‘netl 
     
     Kinglet. tNuturulsizc,)