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PA .SSKRKS. 



SYLVIID.K 



SYI.VUU.F. 



Regulus ignicapillus (C. L. Brehm*). 

 THE FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 



Begnlus ig n icap illus . 



The Fire-crested Wren was first made known as oc- 

 curring in this country by Mr. Leonard Jenynsf, who ob- 

 tained an example killed by a cat in his own garden at 

 Swaff ham-Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in August, 1832 ; and 

 the specimen, being a young bird of the year, was exhibited 

 soon after at a meeting of the Zoological Society (Proc. ZooL 

 Soc. 1832, p. 139). It is now in the Museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge. Early in October, 1836, an example, 

 now in the collection of Mr. John Hancock, was caught on 

 the rigging of a ship five miles off the coast of Norfolk as 

 recorded by his brother (Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. p. 491). 

 Since that time more than thirty other well-authenticated 

 occurrences of the species in this country have been recorded, 

 besides several more cases in which it is supposed to have 

 been observed. Nearly half the specimens obtained have 



* " Sylvia i;/Hicapi(/,(, Brehm," Temniinek, Maii.d'Orn. Ed. 2, i. p. 232 (1820). 

 t This gentleman has since taken the name of Blomefiekl. 



