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Eegulus ignicapillus. FIEE-CREST. 



Sylvia ignicapilla, Temminck, ex C. L. Brehm, Man. 

 d'Orn. i. p. 231 (1820). 



Regulus ignicapillus, Naum. iii. p. 983; Macg. ii. p. 416; 



Hewitson, p. 148; Gray, p. 54; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 351; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 376; Newton, i. p. 456; Gould, ii. pi. 70; 



Harting, p. 19 ; Dresser, ii. p. 459. 

 Fire-crested Regulus, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 322. 



Ignicapillus, from ignis = fire, and capillus = the hair of the head. 



An accidental visitor to England. Resident in temperate 

 Europe and Algeria. Migratory in countries where the 

 winters are cold. 



[Eegulus calendula. RUBY-CROWNED WEEN. 

 Motacilla C alendula, Linn. S. N. i. p. 337 (1766). 



Regulus calendula, Gray, p. 248; Harting, p. 107. 

 Ruby-crowned Wren, Newton, i. p. 455, note. 



Calendula = a marigold, in mediaeval Latin ; probably from cdlere = to glow, 

 from its fiery colour. 



A common North- American species, of which one is said 

 to have been shot near Loch Lomond in the summer of 

 1852 (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 290).] 



Genus PHYLLOSCOPUS, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 970. 



from ^uXXov = a leaf, and cncoTrew = I look at. 



Phylloscopus superciliosus. YELLOW-BROWED 

 WAEBLEE. 



Motacilla superciliosa, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 975 (1788). 



Regulus modestus, Naum. xiii. pi. 378; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 355 ; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 380. 

 Regulus superciliosus, Gray, p. 54. 



