9. REGULtrs. 79 



roinu/ males have a blackish stripe along the sides of the crown 

 and a blackish sijot in front of the eye ; bill and feet brown. 



Bab. All over Europe (except in Sweden, Norway, and Northern 

 Kussia), extending into Turkestan. 



06s. Specimens from Turkestan (June 2) are very pale above and 

 below, almost creamy whitish ; but the new feathers of the tail are 

 of the ordinary rusty-red colour. They represent probably the 

 Calamophilus sihiricus of Bonaparte (C. K. xliii. p. 414). 



a. PuU. sk. Englaml. J. Gould, Esq. [0.1 



6. Juv sk Norfolk. Gould Collet-tion. 



c. S ad sk Norfolk. Gould CoUection. 



d~i. 6 2 ad. sk. Norfolk, April 4, 1856 F. D. Godmau and O. 

 7 7 ,r, J , {O.S.). Salvin, Esqrs. rp.l 



A, ^. rf2ad.sk. France. Gould Collection. 



m,n,o. (S 6, X ad. Turkestan, Saissan-Nor, Dr. 0. Fiusch fC 1 

 sk- June 2, 1876. '"'■ 



Subfamily REGULIN^. 



Bill shorter than rest of the head ; culmen straight, not rounded 

 but keeled, slightly notched. Nostrils basal, with an oval openino- in 

 front of a coriaceous groove, indistinctly operculated, covered with 

 a small stiif and peculiarly shaped feather. Nasal and ricral bristles 

 hardly developed. First primary equal to half the second in length • 

 tip of wing formed by fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries. Tail sqifare^ 

 or slightly emarginated, the feathers pointed at their rips. Tarsus 

 long, more than twice and a half the length of the hallux without 

 claw, anterioriy covered with one long scutum. Male with a vividly 

 coloured crown ; rest of the soft and lax plumage dull olive. 

 ^ Birds of very small size, inhabiting the entire Palaarctic and 

 Nearctic regions, and extending to the Himalayas. 



One genus, with about four species. 



9. EEGULUS. 



Regulus, Koch, Syst. later. Zool. p. 199 (1816) E crist^a^tus 



Phyllohasileus, Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 33 (1850) E calpnfln'ln 



Corthylio, Cab. J.f. O. 1853, p. §3 . .\ . . . ^ r.- ^1. 



Head of Feffulus crisfafus (magnified), to show feather covering the nostril. 



