114 AVES INSESSORES. [REOULUS. 



Sylvia ignicapilla, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 231. Fire-crested 

 Wren, Gould, Europ. Birds, part 3. 



DIMENS. Entire length four inches : length of the bill (from the fore- 

 head) four lines and a half, (from the gape) five lines and a half; of the 

 tarsus seven lines and a half; of the tail one inch nine lines; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing two inches and half a line. 



DESCRIPT. Closely resembling the last species, but somewhat larger, 

 with the bill longer and broader at the base. (Adult male.) Upper parts 

 yellowish tinged with green, passing into nearly pure yellow on the sides 

 of the neck ; crest of a brilliant flame-red, bordered in front and at the 

 sides of the crown with deep black ; cheeks particularly distinguished by 

 three longitudinal streaks, of which there is no indication in the R. auro- 

 capillus ; one of these, which is black, passes directly through the eyes 

 in a line from the base of the upper mandible to the ear-coverts; the 

 other two are white, and are situate one above, the other beneath the 

 eyes; forehead cinereous, with a pale reddish tinge : wings and tail the 

 same as in the last species : under parts more approaching to white : bill 

 black: irides deep brown: tarsi brown; toes and claws yellowish. (Female.) 

 The longitudinal streaks on the sides of the face the same as in the male, 

 but the colours more obscure : crest of a dull orange : sides of the neck 

 olivaceous green, instead of yellow : in other respects the plumage of 

 the two sexes is similar. (The young of the year before the first moult.) 

 Only to be distinguished from those of the last species, by the longer and 

 broader bill : cheeks cinereous, without any appearance of the longitu- 

 dinal streaks : crest of a pale lemon-yellow, scarcely developed : forehead, 

 and sides of the neck, cinereous : upper parts not so bright as in the adult ; 

 under parts cinereous, tinged with yellow. 



A single individual of this species (a young bird of the year) was killed 

 in a garden at Swaffham Bulbeck in Cambridgeshire, in August 1832. 

 Since then others have been observed at Brighton by Mr J. E. Gray. Is 

 probably to be met with in other parts of the country, though from its 

 general resemblance to the R. aurocapillus, it is easily overlooked. Ac- 

 cording to Temminck, this last species resides chiefly at the tops of trees; 

 the R. ignicapilluSy more on the lower branches and in small bushes. 

 The habits of the two in other respects, and nidification, are similar. 



GEN. 21. MOTACILLA, Linn. 

 * Hind claw moderate; much curved. 



62. M. alba, Linn. (Pied Wagtail.) Plumage varie- 

 gated with black and white. 



M. alba, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 255. Pied Wagtail, Selb. 

 Illust. vol. i. p. 251. pi. 49. f. 1. Bew. Brit. Birds; vol. i. p. 226. 

 White Wagtail, Mont. Orn. Diet. 



DIMENS. Entire length seven inches five lines : length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) six lines, (from the gape) eight lines ; of the tarsus 

 eleven lines ; of the hind toe, claw included, seven lines ; of the tail three 

 inches four lines and a half; from the carpus to the end of the wing three 

 inches four lines : breadth, wings extended, ten inches nine lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult in summer plumage.) Forehead, cheeks, and sides 

 of the neck, white ; crown of the head, nape, throat, breast, and upper 

 part of the body, black ; belly and vent white : quills and greater wing- 

 coverts edged with white: the two outer tail-feathers nearly all white: 



