FIRE-CRESTED REGULUS. 



ZNSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTnES. 



SYLVIA DM. 







THE FIRE-CRESTED REGULUS. 



Regulus ignicapittus. 



Regulus ignicapillus. Fire-crested Regulus^ JENYNS, Brit Vert. p. 113. 



Wren, EYTON, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 13. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. iii. 



Sylria ignicapilla, RoiteUt triple Itandeau^ TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 231. 



Regulus ignicapillus, 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 

 garden at Swaffham Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in August 

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

 probably been reared in that neighbourhood. 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 



