54 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



favoiu'ite habitations here in Somerset, I should not 

 think it at all likely to remain in the Channel 

 Islands through the summer, though an occasional 

 straggler may touch the Islands on migration. 

 There is no specimen of either the Chiffchaff or 

 Willow Wren in the Museum. 



43. Golden-crested Wren. Regulus cristatus, 

 Koch. French, " Eoitelet ordinaire." — The Golden- 

 crest is resident in the Islands, but not very 

 numerous, and I doubt if its numbers are regularly 

 increased in the autumn by migrants, as is the case 

 in the Eastern Counties of England. Migratory 

 flocks, however, sometimes make their appearance ; 

 and Mr. MacCulloch writes to me — *'The Golden- 

 crest occasionally comes over in large flocks, appa- 

 rently from Normandy, flying before bad weather. 

 This, however, cannot be said to have been the 

 cause of the large flight that appeared here so 

 recently as the last days in April," 1878. This 

 flock was mentioned in the ' Star ' of April the 27th 

 as follows : — "A countryman informs us that a few 

 days since, whilst he was at L'ancresse Common, 

 he saw several flocks of these smallest of British 

 birds, numbering many hundreds in each, settle in 

 different parts of the Common before dispersing 

 over the Island. In verification of his words he 

 showed us two or three of these tiny songsters 

 which he had succeeded in knocking down with a 



