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PASSERES. 



SYLVJI&jR 



REGULUS IGNICAPILLUS (C. L. Brehm*). 



THE FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 



Regulus ignicapillus. 



THE FIRE-CRESTED WREN was first made known as oc- 

 curring in this country by Mr. Leonard Jenynst, who ob- 

 tained an example killed by a cat in his own garden at 

 Swaff ham-Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in August, 1832 ; and 

 the specimen, being a young bird of the year, was exhibited 

 soon after at a meeting of the Zoological Society (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1832, p. 139). It is now in the Museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge. Early in October, 1836, an example, 

 now in the collection of Mr. John Hancock, was caught on 

 the rigging of a ship five miles off the coast of Norfolk as 

 recorded by his brother (Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. p. 491). 

 Since that time more than thirty other well-authenticated 

 occurrences of the species in this country have been recorded, 

 besides several more cases in which it is supposed to have 

 been observed. Nearly half the specimens obtained have 



* " Sylvia iynicapilla, Brehm," Temminck, Man. d'Orn. Ed. 2, i. p. 232(1820). 

 f This gentleman has since taken the name of Blomefield. 



