Three Feathered Mites 
or eight of them. The bird itself is 
like a little green fairy with a crown of 
gold, for the top of its head is a beautiful 
golden yellow, surrounded with a black 
line, and the general colour of its 
plumage is greenish. 
Their habits are very similar to those 
of the bottle-tits; both varieties are 
equally active and restless, and live in 
more or less the same sort of way, 
except that the gold-crests have a 
greater fondness for forests of fir spruce 
or larch. Sometimes the shrill note can 
be recognized high up some tree in the 
forest—so high that the minute green 
form is invisible, and you can only guess 
its whereabouts from the sound. 
Then there is the wren, little Jenny 
Wren, with her perky, cocked-up tail and 
loud voice. For her voice doesn’t seem 
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