FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BlUDS.
TUFTED TITMOUSE.
49
— Length,
Parus hicolor.
6 inches. Only forehead black and a gray tuft, otherwise like 146. common Southern bird.
KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS.—
^
— Slender,
Bill.
^^"^ X,
—
ward
%^r?trfae.
warbler-like, Avith an upturn.
Food. Insects, grubs, First quill very short.
and cocoons on trees.
These birds rarely visit the ground, though they found on low bushes.
are often
147.
KUBY-CROWNED KINGLET.
Reyu-
— Length, 4 J inches.
U])perparts greenish gray, with a bright red spot on the top of the head underparts a grayish, soiled white wing and Female simitail blackish, wing with two white bars. lar, but without the red spot. The Ruby-crown visits chiefly evergreen woods, but travels with and like the northChickadees through all kinds of brushwood. lus calendula.
A
ern bird, found here only in winter.
148.
GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.
—
Rey-
ulus satrapa. Length, 4 inches. Top of head bright yellow, with an orange line in the middle, and a broad upperblack line above the forehead and the eye underparts brownish green wing and tail blackish •
