THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 47 
fellows were actively searching for their 
food in the firs and larches as usual, 
not seeming to care or feel the bitter 
cold. Welsh, Diyw melyn gribog. 
FIRE-CRESTED WREN, 
Regulus ignicapillus. 
On the 27th February, 1899, hearing a 
Crested Wren in my garden with a 
somewhat different note from the ordin- 
ary Gold-crest, my son shot,it with a 
catapult for the purpose of identification, 
and I found it to be an undoubted Fire- 
crested Wren. The stripe through the 
eye, the sort of black moustache from 
the corners of the mouth, and the black 
stripe under the crest, with the white 
between, left no doubt of the bird’s iden- 
tity. I have always thought this bird 
occurred occasionally with us, and on 
that account included it in my list of 
birds of the county, but it was and is 
much rarer than I at first supposed. I 
omitted to say that the above bird was a 
cock, with all his colours of the very 
brightest, also that when he flew he 
darted out from the tree and _ back, 
something after the manner of the White- 
