GOLDCREST 



GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN 

 GOLDEN-CROWNED WREN. 



PLATE CXXXII. 



Regulus eristatus, . . . 



Regulus auricapillus, . . . SELBY. JENYNS. 



Regulus vulgaris, . . . GOULD. 



Motacilla regulus, . . . MONTAGU. 



Sylvia regulus, .... PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



THESE birds begin to pair even by the end of February^ 

 and Mr. Selby has known the young birds fully fledged 

 so early as the third week in April, the nest being built 

 in March. They build a second time. 



The nest is placed underneath and generally near the 

 end of the branch of a fir, or occasionally on an oak, 

 cypress, holly, yew, cedar, or other tree, as also not 

 very unfrequently in a laurustinus or other bush, and, 

 though very rarely, in a hedge. It is attached by the 

 moss and lichens of which it is composed being inter- 

 woven with the smaller shoots. It is built with willow 

 down, moss, cocoons, spiders' webs, wool, lichens, grasses, 

 and a few hairs. It measures about three inches and a 

 half in diameter inside, and is deep and of a spherical shape, 

 the orifice being almost always in the upper part. It 



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