116 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
lesser wing-coverts and all the quills hair-brown ; 
the wing-coverts and tertials more or less margined 
with olive-green, according to the time of the year; 
there is a light yellowish streak over the eye; the 
under wing-coverts are a sort of sulphur-yellow; 
all the rest of the under parts are white, tinged 
—or rather streaked —with sulphur-yellow; tail 
hair-brown; (in young birds and those shot soon 
after the moult, margined with olive-green; the 
tinge also of that colour on the upper parts is 
caused by the unworn margins of the feathers— 
in fact, the plumage both of this bird and of the last 
is much altered by these unworn margins); legs, 
toes and claws dark brown, almost black. 
The egg is white, thinly spotted with reddish 
purple: itis about the size of, but rather rounder 
than, that of the Willow Warbler. 
GOLDENCRESTED WREN, Legulus cristatus. ‘The 
beautiful little Goldencrested Wren, the smallest of 
British birds, is not at all uncommon with us, and 
is resident all the year, and, as far as I can find, 
recelves no accession to its numbers during the 
winter, although in the more northern and eastern 
parts considerable numbers arrive in the autumn. 
There is a note in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1864 on this 
subject, which says, “There is no doubt whatever 
about this bird arriving on the Yorkshire coast from 
abroad. After the 12th of October, as regular as 
clock-work, the first easterly wind brings us large 
