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example procured in Daimatia in 1829 by the Baron von Fel- 

 degg, a description and figure of what appeared to him to be a 

 new species of Regulus, under the name of Regulus modestus. In 

 1838 Mr. John Hancock (Ann. N. H. ii. p. 310) identified a bird 

 shot by himself on the Northumberland coast with Mr. Gould^s 

 figure, and in 1840 Temminck included it in his work as a Em"o- 

 peau species (Man. d'Orn. iv. App. p. 618). But in the year last 

 mentioned Count A. von Keyserling and Prof. Blasius (Wirbelth. 

 Eur. p. 55) showed that Mr. Gould's Regulus modestus had been 

 previously described by Pallas (Zoogr. Boss.-Asiat. i. p. 499) as 

 Motacilla proregulus, and of course made use of this last specific 

 term. In 1843 Mr. Yarrell included the species, from Mr. 

 Gould's determination, in a supplementary leaf to his well-known 

 work (B. B. i. p. 316), and it has therefore taken its place in 

 nearly all the lists of English birds since published. IMeanwhiie, 

 in 184.2, Mr. Blyth had announced the existence of a species 

 apparently uudescribed, and procured by him in the neighbour- 

 hood of Calcutta, as Regulus inornatus (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 xi. p. 191), which species he subsequently found to be only Mr. 

 GoukVs R. modestus in abraded plumage, and next year (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. xii. p. 98) so referred it. Soon after, the same gentle- 

 man sent home some specimens of the bird to the British Mu- 

 seum (Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 179) ; and about the same time it 

 was discovered that the bird was no true Regulus (as indeed some- 

 body had suggested when Mr. Gould's description first appeared), 

 but rather belonged to the group of Willow Wrens, to which, 

 under whatever term it pleased naturalists to distinguish them, 

 ■ — whether Sylvia proper, Phyllopneuste, or Phylloscopus — it was 

 in consequence relegated. On consideration, however, this 

 assignment appeared distasteful to the discrimination of Mr. 

 Blyth, who in 1847 (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi. p. 441) erected 

 for its reception a genus Reguloides, where Prince Bonaparte in 

 1850 (Consp. Av. i. p. 291) was content to leave it. But before 

 this it was destined to have a new designation conferred upon 

 it, for in 1844 Mr. Hodgson (Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82) had 

 again described it as new under another specific name, PJujllo^ 

 pneuste reguloides *. To continue the bibliography of the species, 

 * Not to be coufounded, however, with Mr. Blyth's Phylloscopus regu~ 



