18 Mr. Manxwiex’s Catalogu of Birds 
No. 80.—The Gold-crefted Wren. Sylvia Regulus. 
This, I believe, is the fmalleft bird in Europe; yet, notwith- 
ftanding its diminutive fize, it is able to brave our fevereft, winters, 
as I have before obferved. Being very fimall, fond; of folitude, 
and living chiefly in the woods, it is not often obferved; but I am 
inclined to think that thefe birds abound in greater numbers 
than is generally fuppofed, becaufe, on the 4th of January 1792, 
I counted eight or nine of them playing about in a fhort cut copfe 
within my fight at the fame time. In fummer it fings very pret- 
tily; its note is weak, as may be fuppofed from its fize, but melo- 
dious. Where and how it breeds, I know not, having never feen 
its neft. o 
No. 81.—The common Willow Wren. Sylvia Trochilus. 
I have not yet been able to afcertain the three different varieties 
of this bird mentioned by Mr. White in his Natural Hiftory of 
Selborne. I have more than once fhot it in the very act of utter- 
ing its fibilous fhivering note, {poken of by that Gentleman; but 
whit I got it into my poffeflion, inftead of being his largeft Wik 
low Wren, it proved to be the common kind, or “Matacilla Trochilus 
of Linneus. It is an elegant, lively, ative little bird, which is 
very common here in the fummer3 and I once found its neft at the 
bottom of a furze buth. 
No. 86.—The long-tailed Titmoufe. Parus caudatus. 
Thefe birds are feen in fimall flocks or companies together in the 
winter time, flying from bough to bough in the woods and hedges. 
No. 89.—The Sand Martin. Hirundo riparia. 
Not far from my houfe is a fand-pit; where thefe birds have 
made many holes, and build their nefts every year. By frequently 
; vifiting 
