_Regulus calendula calendula. Case 4. Figs. 70, 71; Case 5. Figs. 36,
37_
A white eye-ring; two whitish wing-bars, no white
in the tail; adult male with a ruby crown-patch;
absent in females and young. L. 4-1/2.
_Range._ Nests chiefly north of the United States;
winters from Virginia and Iowa southward.
Washington, abundant T.V., Apl. 12-May 15; Sept.
25-Nov. 1; occasionally winters. Ossining, common
T.V., Apl. 8-May 13; Sept. 16-Nov. 3. Cambridge,
rather common T.V., Apl. 12-May 5; Oct. 10-30. N.
Ohio, common T.V., Apl, 1-May 23; Sept. 9-Nov. 3.
Glen Ellyn, fairly common T.V., Mch. 22-May 19;
Sept. 9-Oct. 27. SE. Minn., Mch. 12-; Sept.
18-Oct. 24.
A tiny, olive-green bird, with a large white eye-ring, fluttering
actively among the yellowing leaves, uttering from time to time a
wren-like _cack_ as he twitches his wings and showing little or no fear
of man can be only the Ruby-crown, southward bound. He returns before
the trees are clad, as the author of a song as marvelous in volume as it
is musical in tone; a whistled song of rare sweetness.