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INSESSORES. 



DEVT1ROSTRES. 



SYLVIADJ1. 



SYLVIAD^E. 





THE FIRE-CRESTED REGULUS. 



Regulus ignicapillus. 



Regulus ignicapillus, Fire-crested Regulus, 

 ,) >, Wren, 



Sylvia ignicapilla, 

 Regulus ignicapillus, 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 113. 

 EYTON, Rarer Brit. Birds, 



p. 13. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Roitelet triple bandeau, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 231. 

 TEMM. Suppt. p. 158. 



THE FIRE-CRESTED REGULUS was first made known as 

 an inhabitant of this country by my friend the Rev. 

 Leonard Jenyns, who obtained a specimen in his own gar- 

 den at Swaffham Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in August, 

 1832, and this, being a young bird of the year, had 

 probably been reared in that neighbourhod. Since then 

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

 In the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, one specimen is 

 said to have been obtained near Durham, and another was 



