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GOLDCREST. 



GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 

 GOLDEN-CROWNED WREN. 



PLATE CXXXII. 



Regulus cristatiis, FLEMING. RAY. 



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. I believe they some- 

 times 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, supported by some of the smaller offshoots, 

 and further attached to these by the moss and lichens 

 of which it is composed being interwoven with them, 

 mixed sometimes with willow down, cocoons, spiders' 

 webs, wool, 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 



