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an Algerian bird in which these markings are quite as faint as in 

 any of my Canarian specimens ; so the birds must be considered 

 to belong to the same species. 



25. Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. 



Troglodytes europceus, Vera. Hare. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 2, 1855, xv. p. 437. 



Sylvia troglodytes, BoUe, J. fiir Orn. 1854, p. 454. 



Webb and Berthelot doubt the occurrence of the Wren in the 

 Canaries ; Bolle, however, says that it is found there ; I never 

 saw it. 



26. fi^EGULUS MADERENsis, Vcrn. Hare. 



Regulus ? Vern. Hare. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 



2, vol. xii. p. 58 (1853). 



Regulus maderensis, Vern. Hare. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 153; 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 1855, xv. p. 432. 



This pretty little Goldcrest is not uncommon in the higher 

 parts of Madeira, where it frequents chiefly the tree heath 

 {Erica arborea) and the arbutus [Clethra arhorea), and, like our 

 Golden-crest, feeds upon insects it picks from the leaves. It is 

 not easy to procure specimens, as the brush-wood is so thick, 

 and when shot at from a close distance a bird is blown to pieces 

 and spoiled for preserving. I also found it in a fir-wood a little 

 above St. Anna, on the north side of the island. This was the 

 only place I met with it low down. 



27. t^EGULUs CRisTATus, Linn. 



Regulus ?, Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 1854, p. 455. 



"Regulus maderensis, Vern. Hare. ;^' Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 1857, 

 p. 284. 



Bolle mentions a Canarian species of Regulus. He says that 

 he did not obtain specimens. I found it in Taganana, and in 

 the highlands of Teneriffe, in the laurel-forests and also amongst 

 the tree heath. My examples cannot be distinguished from the 

 European Golden-crest. In Madeira it is represented by the 

 preceding species, while in the Azores, again, we find R. cristatus, 

 but always having the legs and beak rather larger than British 

 or Continental specimens. 



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