GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 



PASSE RES. 



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SYLVHDJi. 



REGULUS CRISTATUS, K. L, Koch*. 

 THE GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 



licgulus cristatus. 



RKGULUS, G. Cuvier-\-. Bill slender, straight, the edges dilated at the base, 

 compressed towards the point, which is notched. Nostrils basal, supernal and 

 oval, covered by a single bristly feather directed forwards ; the internasal ridge 

 stout ; the gape beset with hairs. Wings rather long ; the first primary nearly 

 half the length of the second, which is somewhat shorter than the third, and this 

 again than the fourth or fifth, which are nearly equal, though the fourth is the 

 longest in the wing. Tail of twelve pointed feathers, slightly forked. Legs 

 slender and rather long ; tarsi covered in front by a single scale ; toes moderate ; 

 the outer and middle toes joined at their base ; claws much curved. 



THE little birds of this genus exhibit many of the habits 

 of the smaller Warblers already described, and also many 

 of the actions of the various species of the genus Parus, 

 an account of which will presently follow. The Golden- 



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* Saugthiere und Vogel Baierns, p. 199 (1816). 

 t Le9ons d' Anatomic Comparee, tab. ii. (1800). 



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