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FIBECBEST. 



FIRE-CRESTED KINGLET. PIRE-CROWNED KINGLET. FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 



PLATE CXXXIII. 



Megulus ignicapillus, JESYNS. MACOILLIVRAY. 



Sylvia ignicapilla, TEMMINCK. 



THE nest is built of moss, wool, and a few grasses, lined with fur 

 and feathers. It is suspended from the branch of a fir or other tree. 



The eggs are said to be from five or six to eight or ten in number, 

 and of a pale reddish yellow tint, minutely speckled with yellowish 

 grey about the larger end, but they vary in size and colour. 



One variety is of a pale dull yellowish grey, with an elegant band 

 of small spots of a darker colour near the thick end, and other minute 

 ones over the remainder of the surface. 



Another is with a ground of yellowish grey tinged with red, with a 

 band of light clear red spots, nearly at the centre, and many minute 

 dots and spots of the same all over. 



