FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 79 



and in the North Riding ; Jinny Wren in Teesdale ; Woodcock 

 Pilot at Flamborough ; Herring Spink at Filey and Flam- 

 borough ; Humming Bird at Redcar ; Little Wren at Loftus- 

 in-Cleveland ; and Tot-o'er-seas is a term placed on record 

 by Swainson. 



FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 



Regulus ignicapillus {Brehm). 



Rare autumn visitant, on migration southward. 



The range of the Fire-crested Wren is less extended than 

 that of its congener, the Goldcrest ; it is unknown in 

 Scandinavia, and to the north-east of the Baltic Provinces of 

 Germany ; it breeds in the southern countries of Europe, 

 in some of which, as also the forest region of Algeria, it is 

 a resident throughout the year. 



Its first appearance in the county was noted by Thomas 

 Allis, who, in his Report on Yorkshire Birds, 1844, wrote : — 



Regulus ignicapillus. — Fire-crested Regulus. Bartholomew Smith 

 reports its occurrence at Woodend, near Thirsk. 



It may be well to place on record the individual instances 

 of its occurrence, as it is but a casual visitant in autumn 

 to this country, and is frequently confounded with its near 

 relation, the Goldcrest, from which, however, it may be 

 distinguished by the black streak in which the eye is placed, 

 and which is lacking in the latter species. 



The first is that referred to in Allis's Report, at Woodend, 

 near Thirsk, and quoted above. 



One was found in an exhausted state in a planting at 

 Armitage Bridge, near Huddersfield, on 3rd September 1874 

 (J. Varley, in litt. 20th November 1879). 



One was obtained at Endcliff Woods, near Sheffield, in 

 1878, as I am informed by Mr. A. S. Hutchinson of Derby, 

 who preserved the specimen. 



* Mr. J. H. Gurney's article in the Zoologist (1889, p. 172), may be 

 usefully consulted by those who are interested in this species as a 

 British bird. 



