758 



COMMON GOLD-CREST, 



(Regulus vulgaris.) 



* 



RE. virescens, remigibus secundariis exteriori mar gine flaws, media 



albis, vertice luteo. 

 Greenish Gold-crest, with the exterior edges of the secondary 



quills yellow ; the middle white ; the crown yellow. 

 Regulus cristatus. Ray. Syn. p. 79. A. 9. Briss. Orn. 3. 579. 



17. 

 Motacilla Regulus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 338. 48. Ldn. Faun. 



Suec. 262.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 995. 

 Sylvia Regulus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 548. 152. 

 Roitelet, Poul, Souci. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. p. 363. pi. 16. 



f. 2. Buff. PL Enl. 651. 3. Buff. Hist. Prov. 1. 50g. 

 Golden-crested Wren. Pen. Brit. Zool. 153. Pen. Arct. Zool. 



2. 32\. Will. Ang. p. 227. Edwards, pi. 254. l.Albin. 



Birds. I. pi. 53. Hayes. Brit. Birds.pl. 38. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 508. 145. Lewin. Brit. Birds. 3. l\2. Walc. Syn. 2. 243. 



Don. Brit. Birds. I. pi. 4. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. Shaw. 



Nat. Misc.pl, 165. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mont. Sup. 



THIS elegant species is the smallest bird found 

 in Europe, measuring scarcely three inches and a 

 half in length, and the body, when stripped of its 

 feathers, but little more than an inch : its weight 

 is between seventy and eighty grains : its beak is 

 black : irides hazel : the crown of the head is 

 ornamented with a crest composed of a double 

 series of feathers arising from each side, and nearly 

 meeting at their points; the exterior are black, 

 the interior bright yellow ; between which, on the 

 crown, the feathers are shorter, and of a fine deep 

 orange: the forehead, chin, and round the eyes, 



