CHIFF-CHAFF WARBLER. 



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sexes similar in colours, males rather brighter. 

 Length of the latter about four inches and a 

 half. 



From those Tree Warblers, we may pass to the 

 beautiful and active Gold-crests, which prepare 

 us by their habits for the Parlance. 



REGULUS, Ray. Bill nearly straight, slender, 

 tip very slightly notched ; wings with the 

 first quill short, third the longest ; tail sub- 

 furcate, points of its feathers mucronate; 

 feet with the hallux and its claw propor- 

 tionally strong. R. auricapillus. R. regu- 

 loides, fyc. 



e Nostrils in some covered with a single 



plumulet, directed forwards. 



This little genus, confined, so far as we know, 

 to Europe, North America, and Northern Asia, 



