48 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Man ; only once O. Hebrides (" company " Lewis, 1903), never 

 Orkneys, only once (four seen April, 1860) Shetlands, very rare 

 Caithness and extreme north-west Scotland, but common, if some- 

 what local, in other parts. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Specimens from central Pp^enees appear 

 to be indistinguishable from British ones. Probably this form 

 occurs also in other parts of w^est France. 



REGULUS REGULUS 



102. Regulus regulus regulus (L.)— THE CONTINENTAL 

 GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 



MoTAciLLA Regulus Limifeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 188 (1758 — 

 ' ' Habitat in Europa." Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 

 Regulus cristatus K. L. Koch, Yarrell, i, p. 449 (part) ; Saunders, p. 57 

 (part). 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Very few migrant Goldcrests have 

 been examined, but this form appears to be an autumn-immigrant 

 (Sept. to Nov.) to east coast, possibly not occurring every year, 

 but sometimes in great numbers, apparently occasionally reaching 

 Ireland, but no specimens from Ireland identified. Returns March 

 and April. Identified examples from coasts Yorks., Lines., Norfolk, 

 Kent and Sussex, and Isle of May, Sept. and Oct., from Sussex 

 Dec, and from St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) and Yorks., 

 Oct. and Nov. Autumn and spring- migrants in Orkneys and 

 Shetlands are probably of this form. 



Abroad. — Europe from Scandinavia and north Russia (as far 

 as pine-forests reach) to PjTcnees, Italy, Macedonia, Caucasus, and 

 Asia Minor. Resident and vagrant. Represented by allied forms 

 in British Isles, Azores, Canary Islands, Corsica and Sardinia, 

 Turkestan, Himalayas, and Japan. 



103. Regulus regulus anglorum Hart. — THE BRITISH 



GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 



Regulus regulus anglorum Hartert, Bull. B.O.C., xvi, p. 11 (Great 

 Britain and Ireland). 



Regulus cristatiis K. L. Koch, Yarrell, i, p. 449 (part) ; Saunders, p. 57 

 (part) ; R. r. anglorum Hartert, Brit. B., i, p. 218. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Resident. Generally distributed, 

 except in extreme north-west Scotland, where local ; in O. Hebrides, 

 where only once recorded as breeding (Stornoway, 1906) ; Shetlands, 

 where it does not breed, and Orknej'S, where only twice recorded 

 as breeding. Goldcrests, possibly of Continental form, are however 

 common as spring- and autumn- migrants in these three groups 

 of islands. 



