92 BRITISH BIRDS, WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 



In an aviary the Fire-crest might be associated with the Gold-crest and would 

 require precisely the same treatment ; but it is not probable that many Avicnl- 

 tnrists will have an opportunity of obtaining it in this country, Dr. Russ says 

 that until recently it was supposed to be impossible to keep the European species 

 of Regulus for any length of time, but recently they have been found in the care 

 of a considerable number of aviarists ; he however considers their habituation to 

 confinement difficult. In disposition they are particularly gentle, sociable and 

 peaceable. 



Family TURDID^. Subfamily S YL 



THE YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 



Phylloscopns supercilfosus, GMEL. 



MR. Howard Saunders only mentions three examples of this pretty little species 

 as having been obtained in Great Britain: but, in "the Zoologist" for 

 December, 1894, Mr. J. E. Harting says: "On October 8th, Mr. Swailes, an 

 observant nurseryman, at Beverley, hearing the note of a small warbler which was 

 unfamiliar to him, shot the bird, and sent it for identification to Mr. F. Boyes, who 

 pronounced it to be Phylloscopus supcrci/iosus, and on communicating this information, 

 Mr. Swailes found and shot two others in the same locality. Mr. Boyes having 

 reported this interesting occurrence in 'The Field' of October ayth, Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, in the succeeding issue (Nov. 3rd) announced that on Oct. ist one of these 

 little birds was shot on the coast of Norfolk by a labouring man, who fired at it 

 merely for the purpose of unloading his gun! As ten instances of the occurrence 

 of this species in the British Islands have now been made known, its claim to be 



