t8 Mr. Mark wick V Catalogue of Birds 



No. 80. — The Gold'-crefted Wren. Sylvia Regulus. 



This* I believe, is the fmalleft bird in Europe; yet, notwith- 

 standing its diminutive fize, it is able to brave our fevered winters^. 

 as I have before obferved. Being very, fmall, fond of folitude, 

 and living chiefly in the woods, it is not often obferved; but I am 

 inclined to think: that thefe birds abound in greater numbers 

 than is generally fuppofed,. becaufe, on the 4th of January 1792,. 

 I counted eight or nine of them playing about in a fhort cut copfe 

 within my fight at the fame time. In fummer it fings very pret- 

 tily; its note is weak, as may be fuppofed from its fize, but melo* 

 dious. Where and how it breeds,. I know not, having never feen 

 its neft. 



No. 81. — The common Willow Wreru Sylvia- Trocfiilus. 



I have not yet been able to afcertain the three different varieties 

 of this bird mentioned by Mr. White in, his Natural Hiftory of 

 Selborne. I have more than once fhot it in the very,a&, o£ utterr 

 ingits fibilous ihivering note, fpoken of by that Gentleman ; but 

 when I got it into my pofleffion, inftead of being his largeft Wil* 

 low Wren, it proved tobe the common kind,., or Mciacilla Trocbilus 

 ©f Linnaeus. It is an elegant, lively, adive little bird, which is 

 very common here in the fummer;, and I once found its nefl at the 

 bottom of a furze bum.. 



No, 86.— The long- tailed Titmoufe., Parus caudatus-. 

 Thefe birds are feen in fmall flocks or companies together in the 

 winter time, flying from bough to bough, in the woods and hedges.. 



No. 89.— The Sand Martin. Hhundo riparia.. 

 Not far from my houfe is a fand.pit, where thefe birds Rave 

 made many holes, and build their nefts every year- By frequently 



vifiting 



