380 SYLVIAD^. 



TNSES80RE8. SYLVIADJ2. 



DENT1ROSTRES. 



DALMATIAN REGULUS. 



Regulus modestus. 



Regulus modestus, Dalmatian Regulus, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Pliylloscopus BLYTH, Ann. Nat, Hist. v. xiii. 



p. 179. 

 Regulus Roitelet modeste, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 61 8. 



A SINGLE specimen of this bird, shot in Dalmatia in 

 1829, by the Baron de Feldegg, of Frankfort, was figured 

 by Mr. Gould in his Birds of Europe, as above quoted. 

 Another, shot in Northumberland, was recorded in the 

 second volume of the Annals of Natural History, page 310, 

 by Mr. John Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as fol- 

 lows : " I beg to hand you a notice of a very scarce and 

 interesting species of Regulus, which I shot on the banks 

 near Hartley, on the coast of Northumberland, on the 26th 

 of last September (1838) ; it corresponds exactly with 

 Mr. Gould's Regulus modestus, a species so extremely rare, 



