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How to Name the Birds

STUDIES OF THE FAMILIES OF PASSERES

BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN

SEVEVTH PAPER FAMILY 17. KIXGLETS .ixu GNA'I‘CA‘I'CHERS. FAMILY Syh'iidw

Rngr.—Ornithologists differ greatly in their treatment of the three subfamilies of birds included in this family by the American Ornithologists‘ Union's CheckeList, that is, the Sv/wiina', or ld \Vorld Warblers, number» ing about one hundred species. only one of which reaches this country (the Willow Warbler, in western Alaska); the Ram/[um or Kinglets, with seven species, three of which are American, and the l’a/ivpfi/Irzrr, or Gnatv catchers, with some ﬁfteen species, all of which are American. Two King, lets and one Gnatcatcher are found east of the Mississippi.

Smron.—'l‘he Kinglets, representatives of an Old World family. as might be supposed, are northern, migrating southward in September and October.

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The Gnatcatcher is southern, wintering from the Gulf States southward and breeding as far north as middle New Jersey.

Colar.—Kinglets are olive-green or Warbler green, as it is called, above, lighter below; with a bright patch on the crown, which is wanting in the female and young Ruby-crownt Gnatcatehers are gray above, white below.

External Cbarauzrs.—Kinglets and Gnatcatchers have the slender bill

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