352 PHYLL0SC0PU3 COLLYBITA. REGULUS CRISTATUS. 



[§ 1800. Five.—Rugely, Staffordshire, 1853. From Mr. R. W. 

 Hawkins. 



From as many different nests.] 



[^1801. One. — Herefordshire? From the late Mr. Scales's 

 Collection, 1885.] 



[§ 1802. i^/yd?.— Cavenham, Suffolk, 21 May, 1891. 



These taken by my brother Ed^vard, who found the nest with two eggs on 

 the 18th. Its site was exactly that of a Chiffchaff's (a cock bird of which was 

 singing close by)^ being on the top of an elm-sucker, about a foot from the 

 ground, and it was made of grass. But he wrote : — " Though I visited it at 

 least six times, I never saw any bird go to it, and I never touched the eggs till 

 I took them, when, to my surprise, I found they were red-spotted and not 

 purple-spotted. Of course if I had not been [going away] I should have left 

 the eggs and watched the hen bird when she was sitting." He had no doubt 

 about the nest being a Chiifchaff's until he took the eggs. Then he thought 

 be might be mistaken ; but I believe he was originally right. There is very 

 little red — that is, orange-red — in the spots on the eggs now, though perhaps 

 they are rather less purple than those on ChiiTchaffs' eggs commonly are.] 



REGULUS CRISTATUS, Koch. 

 GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 



^ 1803. One. — Beeston, Notts., in or before 1846. 



The nest suspended underneath the branch of a fir-ti'ee in the 

 garden, 



^ 1804. 2'wo. — Wirksworth, Derbyshire, in or before 184G. 



^ 1805. Four. — Long Island, Loch Awe, Sutherlandshirc, 21 

 April, 1851. 



These were in a beautiful nest under a dead branch of blacktliorn 

 covered most exquisitely with long lichen. While we were engaged 

 in cutting off the branch the hen bird came very near and I could 

 examine her minutely. Just before she made her appearance a pair 

 of Long-tailed Titmice were pecking about near us ; offering an 

 illustration of the necessity of caution in attributing nests to the 

 birds seen near them. We saw Coal-Titmice on the same island, also 

 two Woodcocks. 



