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^IiGRATiONS. — British Isles. — Few migrant specimens having been 

 critically examined, it is impossible to define migrations of our birds, 

 but there is no doubt a very considerable southward movement, 

 in some years at all events, in autumn, and a return in spring along 

 east coast Great Britain, although probably many individuals are 

 residents subject only to local movements. Some perhaps pass in 

 autumn from Great Britain to Ireland, where Goldcrests have been 

 noted at Lights fairly frequently in Aug., while numbers occur in 

 Sept. and Oct. ; those taken at Lights on south coast England may 

 be leaving the country in autumn and returning in spring. 



REGULUS IGNICAPILLUS 



104. Regulus ignicapillus ignicapillus (Temm.) — THE FIRE- 

 CRESTED WREN. 



Sylvia ignicapilla Temminck, Man. d'Om., ed. 11, i, p. 231 (1820 — 



Ex Brehm MS. : France, Germany, etc.). 



Regulus ignicapillus (C. L. Brehm), Yarrell, i, p. 4oG ; Saunders, p. 59. 



Distribution. — England and Wales. — Fairly frequent visitor from 

 Oct. to April along coast from Cornwall to Kent, and considered 

 as annual autumn-visitor near Dover (Kent) and Scilly Isles, and 

 nearly so in east Kent and Cornwall. Also fairly frequent along 

 east coast up to and including Yorks., and has occurred rarely in 

 Berks., Oxon., Salop, and Surrey. One near Pwllheli (Carnarvon), 

 March 24, 1878. A pair Brecon, Feb. 2 7, 1899. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Central and south Europe to north-west 

 Africa and Asia Minor. Replaced by allied race in Madeira. 



[XoTE. — Two examples of the American Ruby-crowned Wren, Regulus 

 calendula calendula (L.), now in the British Museum, said to have been shot 

 nearLoch Lomond in 1852, cannot be admitted, the evidence not being sufficient 

 (Yarrell, i, p. 4.55 ; Saimders, p. 80).] 



PANURUS BIARMICUS 



105. Panurus biarmicus biarmicus (L.) — THE BEARDED 

 TITMOUSE. 



Parus biarmicus Linnaeus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 190 (1758 — " Habitat 

 in Europa." Ex Albin & Edwards, who state that they described Danish 

 specimens, which probably came from Holstein ; cf. Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Faima, i, p. 403). 

 Panurus biarmicus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, i, p. 511 ; Saunders, p. 99. 



Distribution. — England. — Resident in Norfolk and perhaps north 

 Suffolk Broads, and in one locality in Devon. Formerly bred 

 Sussex, Kent, Essex, Cambs., Hunts., and Lines. To most south 

 counties very rare vagrant, nearly always in winter, and has been 



