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KINGLET , a name applied in many books to the See also:bird called by See also:Linnaeus Motacilla See also:regulus, and by most See also:modern ornithologists Regulus cristatus, the See also:golden-crested or golden-crowned See also:wren of See also:ordinary persons. This See also:species is the type of a small See also:group which has been generally placed among the Sylviidae or true warblers, but by certain systematists it is referred to the See also:titmouse See also:family, Paridae. That the kinglets possess many of the habits and actions of the latter is undeniable, but on the other See also:hand they are not known to differ in any important points of organization or See also:appearance from the former—the See also:chief distinction being that the nostril is covered by a single bristly See also:feather directed forwards. The golden-crested wren is the smallest of See also:British birds, its whole length being about 31 in., and its wing measuring only 2 in. from the carpal See also:joint. Generally of an See also:olive-See also:green See also:colour, the See also:top of its See also:head is See also:bright yellow, deepening into See also:orange, and bounded on either See also:side by a See also:black See also:line, while the wing coverts are dull black, and some of them tipped with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, forming a somewhat conspicuous See also:bar. The See also:cock has a pleasant but weak See also:song. The See also:nest is a beautiful See also:object, thickly felted of the softest See also:moss, See also:wool, and See also:spiders' webs, lined with feathers, and usually built under and near the end of the See also:branch of a See also:yew, See also:fir or See also:cedar, supported by the inter-See also:weaving of two or three laterally diverging and pendent twigs, and sheltered by the See also:rest. The eggs are from six to ten in number, of a dull white sometimes finely freckled with reddish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown. The species is particularly social, living for the most See also:part of the
See also:year in family parties, and often joining bands of any species of titmouse in a See also:common See also:search for See also:food. Though to be met with in See also:Britain at all seasons, the bird in autumn visits the See also:east See also:coast in enormous flocks, apparently emigrants from Scandinavia, while hundreds perish in See also:crossing the See also:North See also:Sea, where they are well known to the fishermen as " See also:woodcock's pilots." A second and more See also:local See also:European species is the See also:fire-crested wren, R. ignicapillus, easily recognizable by the black streak on each side of the head, before and behind the See also:eye, as well as by the deeper colour of its See also:crown. A third species, R. maderensis, inhabits the Madeiras, to which it is See also:peculiar; and examples from the Himalayas and See also:Japan have been differentiated as R. himalayensis and R. japonicas. North See also:America has two well-known species, R. satrapa, very like the European R. ignicapillus, and the See also:ruby-crowned wren, R. calendula, which is remarkable for a loud song that has been compared to that of a See also:canary-bird or a skylark, and for having the characteristic nasal feather in a rudimentary or aborted See also:condition. (A.
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