_Regulus satrapa_, LICHT. Verz. 1823, no. 410.—DALL & BANNISTER (Alaska).—LORD (Vancouver Isl.).—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1859, 227; Review, 65.—SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1857, 212 (Orizaba).—BÆDEKER, Cab. Jour. IV, 33, pl. i, fig. 8 (eggs, from Labrador).—PR. MAX. Cab. Jour. 1858, 111.—COOPER & SUCKLEY, P. R. R. R. XII, II, 1859, 174 (winters in W. Territory).—LORD, R. Art. Inst. Wool. 1864, 114 (nest?).—DRESSER, Ibis, 1865, 476 (Texas, winter).—SAMUELS, 179.—COOPER, Birds Cal. 1, 32. _Sylvia regulus_, WILS.; _Regulus cristatus_, VIEILL.; _R. tricolor_, NUTT., AUD. Figures: AUD. Birds Am. II, pl. cxxxii.—IB. Orn. Biog. II, pl. clxxxiii.—VIEILL. Ois. Am. Sept. II, pl. cvi. SP. CHAR. Above olive-green, brightest on the outer edges of the wing; tail-feathers tinged with brownish-gray towards the head. Forehead, a line over the eye and a space beneath it, white. Exterior of the crown before and laterally black, embracing a central patch of orange-red, encircled by gamboge-yellow. A dusky space around the eye. Wing-coverts with two yellowish-white bands, the posterior covering a similar band on the quills, succeeded by a broad dusky one. Under parts dull whitish. Length under 4 inches; wing, 2.25; tail, 1.80. _Female_ without the orange-red central patch. Young birds without the colored crown. HAB. North America generally. On the west coast, not recorded south of Fort Crook. Orizaba, SCLATER; W. Arizona, COUES. [Illustration: _Regulus satrapa._] Specimens of this bird from the far West are much brighter and more olivaceous above; the markings of the face are also somewhat different in showing less dusky about the eye. These may form a variety _olivaceus_. The _Regulus cristatus_ of Europe, a close ally of our bird, is distinguished by having shorter wings and longer bill; the flame-color of the head is more extended, the black border is almost wanting anteriorly. The back and rump, too, are more yellow. HABITS. The Golden-crested Kinglet, or Wren, as it is often called, occurs over nearly the whole of the North American continent. It is abundant from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and throughout the British Provinces, where it chiefly occurs in its breeding-season. In Massachusetts it is a winter resident from October until May. In Maine it is met with in spring and fall, chiefly as a migratory visitor; a few also remain, and probably breed, in the dense _Thuja_ swamps of that State. They are most abundant in April, and again in October. In the vicinity of Calais the Golden-crest is a common summer resident, and, without doubt, breeds there.