GENUS I. REGULUS, Cuv. KINGLET.
Bill short, straight, very slender, a little broader than high at the base, compressed toward the end; upper mandible nearly straight in its dorsal outline, the edges slightly notched, the tip a little declinate, acute; lower mandible with its outline ascending, nearly straight, the tip acute. Nostrils basal, elliptical, concealed by the reversed feathers. Head large, broadly ovate; neck short; body short. Legs rather long; tarsus slender, longer than the middle toe, much compressed, scutella blended, excepting the lower four toes, rather small, much compressed, hind toe large; lateral equal; claws rather long, arched, much compressed, acute. Plumage very loose and full. Short bristles at the base of the bill. Feathers of the head elongated and silky in the adults. Wings of ordinary length, with the first quill very small, the fourth and fifth longest. Tail of ordinary length, emarginate.
131. 1. Regulus Cuvieri, Aud. Cuvier's Kinglet.
Plate LV. Male.
Upper parts dull greyish-olive; anterior part of forehead, lore, and a line behind the eye, black; a greyish-white band across the forehead over the eye; a semilunar band of black on the forehead and sides of the head, enclosing a vermilion space; wings and tail dusky, edged with greenish-yellow; secondary coverts, and first row of small coverts tipped with greyish-white; lower parts greyish-white.
Male, 41/4, 6.
Pennsylvania. Only one specimen found.
Cuvier's Crested Wren, Regulus Cuvierii, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 416.
Cuvier's Regulus, Regulus Cuvierii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 288.
132. 2. Regulus Satrapa, Lichtenstein. American Golden-crested Kinglet.
Plate CLXXXIII. Male and Female.