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that he considers the individual from which he described 

 as unique in the continental collections. The description 

 of my bird, which will now entitle this species to a place 

 in the British Fauna, is as follows : Length 4 T ^ inches : 

 breadth 6| inches : length from the carpus to the end of 

 the wing 2jV inches ; tail 1 j*g- inches ; the bill from the 

 gape to the tip nearly T 7 ^; and from the tips of the fea- 

 thers, which extend to the extremity of the nostrils, a 

 quarter of an inch. The whole of the upper plumage a 

 greenish yellow ; on the centre of the crown of the head 

 is a streak of paler : a light lemon-coloured streak extends 

 over the eye from the base of the bill to the occiput ; a 

 short streak of the same colour passes beneath the eye, and 

 a narrow band of dusky passes through the eye, and 

 reaches the termination of the auriculars. The under- 

 parts pale yellow ; the ridge of the wing bright lemon 

 colour ; wing feathers dusky, edged with pale yellow, 

 becoming broader on the secondaries; two conspicuous 

 bands of lemon colour across the coverts ; the wings reach 

 to within three quarters of an inch of the end of the tail. 

 Bill brown, with the under mandible paler at the base ; 

 mouth yellow; legs and toes brown, with the under 

 surface of the toes inclining to yellow ; claws brown. 

 Its manners, as far as I had an opportunity of examining 

 them, were so like those of the Golden-crested Wren, that 

 at first I mistook it for that species. It was continually 

 in motion, flitting from place to place in search of insects 

 on umbelliferous plants, and such other herbage as the 

 bleak banks of the Northumberland coast affords ; such 

 a situation could not be at all suited to the habits of this 

 species, and there can be little doubt that it had arrived 

 at the coast previous to, or immediately after, its autumnal 

 migrations." 



