DALMATIAN REGULUS. 



\}6' 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD/E. 



liesiiliis modestus. 



DALMATIAN REGULUS. 



Dalmatian Heguliis, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xii. 

 Roilelet modeste, Temm. Man. d'Oinith. vol. iv. p. 61( 



A SINGLE specimen of this bird, shot in Dahnatia in 1829, 

 by the Baron de Feldegg, of Frankfort, was figured by Mr. 

 Gould in his Birds of Europe, as above quoted. Another, 

 shot in Northumberland, was recorded in the second volume 

 of the Annals of Natural History, page 310, by Mr. John 

 Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as follows : — " I beg to 

 hand you a notice of a very scarce and interesting species of 

 Regulus, which I shot on the banks near Hartley, on the 

 coast of Northumberland, on the 26th of last September, 

 (1888) ; it corresponds exactly with Mr. Gould's Regidus 

 modestus, a species so extremely rare, that he considers the 

 individual from which he described as unique in the con- 

 tinental collections. The description of my bird, which will 

 now entitle this species to a place in the British Fauna, is as 



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