162 DALMATIAN GOLD-CREST. 



this species to a place in British Fauna, is as fol- 

 lows : length, 4^ ; breadth, 6~ ; length from the 

 corpus to the end of the wing, 2 T ' 7 ; tail 1-,^- ; the 

 bill, from the gape to the tip, nearly T 7 7 ; and 

 from the tips of the feathers, which extend to the 

 extremity of the nostrils, J. The whole of the 

 upper plumage a greenish yellow ; on the centre 

 of the crown of the head is a streak of paler ; a 

 light lemon-coloured streak extends over the eye 

 from the base of the bill to the occiput ; a short 

 streak of the same colour passes beneath the eye ; 

 and a narrow band of dusky passes through the 

 eye, and reaches the termination of the auriculars. 

 The under parts pale yellow ; the ridge of the 

 wing bright lemon colour ; wing feathers dusky, 

 edged with pale yellow, becoming broader on the 

 secondaries ; two conspicuous bands of lemon 

 colour cross the coverts. The wings reach to 

 within | of an inch of the end of the tail. Bill 

 brown, with the under mandible paler at the base ; 

 mouth yellow ; legs and toes brown, with the 

 under surface of the toes inclining to yellow ; 

 claws brown. Its manners, as far as I had an 

 opportunity of observing them, were so like those 

 of the Golden-crested Wren, that at first I mis- 

 took it for that species ; it was continually in 

 motion, flitting from place to place in search of 

 insects or umbelliferous plants, and such other 

 herbage as the bleak banks of the Northumbrian 

 coast affords. Such a situation could not be at 

 all suited to the habits of this species ; and there 

 can be little doubt that it had arrived on the 



