122 FIRE CREST. 



FIRECREST. 



FIRE-CRESTED KINGLET. FIRE-CROWNED KINGLET. 

 FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 



PLATE CXXXIII. FIGURES I, II. 



Regulus ignicapillus, JENYNS. MACGILLIVRAY. 



Sylvia ignicapilla, TEMMINCK. 



rriHE 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. 



