CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE REGULI THE WAGTAILS THE PIPITS THE CHATS THE TITMICE 

 THE BOHEMIAN WAX-WING THE LARKS THE BUNTINGS THE FINCHES 

 THE CROSS-BILLS. 



THE Gold-crested Regulus (Kungs-Fogel, or King's-Bird, 

 Sw. ; Regulus aurocapillus, Selby) was common in my 

 vicinity ; as indeed is the case throughout nearly the whole 

 of Scandinavia. It is found " as far to the north as the 

 pine-woods grow." A portion left the peninsula for warmer 

 climes in the fall of the year, but numbers remained during 

 the winter. It is very common in Denmark, during migra- 

 tion, in spring and autumn, not only in the woods, but 

 wherever bushes and hedges are found ; and Kjaerbolling 

 believes it to breed there. 



The Fire-crested Regulus (R. ignicapillus, Naum.), the 

 smallest of all European birds, is not as yet included in 

 the Scandinavian fauna ; but Swedish naturalists think it 

 not improbable it may be an inhabitant of the peninsula. 



