8 THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 



US that in 1884, great numbers of Goldcrests 

 fluttered against St. Bees lighthouse at midnight on 

 September 16th, wind S.E., hght breeze, weather 

 gloomy. A land arrival was noticed at Carlisle at 

 the same time. A caged Goldcrest was partial to 

 egg food and dried ant cocoons, mealworms it 

 refused, but eagerly accepted from our fingers the 

 larvge of clothes moths, seizing them by the head 

 and striking them repeatedly against a perch before 

 proceeding to swallow them. 



R. Ignicapillus. Firecrest. 



The Fiiecrest is a rare winter visitant, and we 

 have but one record of its occurrence in Cumberland. 

 " In 1845 I killed a Firecrest with a stone at Rose- 

 hill, two miles from Carlisle. It was identified, after 

 a careful reference to Yarrell, as an adult male, it 

 possessed the three black facial stripes and golden 

 tint on the body above the wings, by expert orni- 

 thologists. The bird was preserved by Mr. Story, 

 and from his collection passed into that of the late 

 T. C. Heysham." [Mr. J. Graham in lit.) 



Genus PH YLL O S C O PU S. 



P. Rufus. Chief Chaff. 



The Chiflf Chaff is a very local summer visitant, 

 scarce in the south and east of the county, tolerably 

 plentiful in the lake district, and increasing in north 

 Cumberland. Twelve years ago it first made its 

 appearance in certain districts near Carlisle ; and 

 in April, 1879, as Mr. Pleiiderleath informs us, its 



