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DALMATIAN KEGULUS. 



Regulus modestus, GOULD. 



Regulus A diminutive of Rex a king. Modestus 



Modest sober. 



THE Baron De Feldegg, of Frankfort shot one specimen 

 of this bird in Dalmatia, in the year 1829, the first on 

 record; and the only other that has as yet been met with 

 was killed by Mr. John Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 in the county of Northumberland, near Hartley, on the sea 

 coast, on the 26th. of September, 1838. These are the only 

 two, 'par nobile,' of these Kinglets that have yet been discovered 

 in our continent, and none have been known anywhere else. 



It feeds on insects. 



Male; length, barely over four inches; bill, brown, the 

 under mandible paler at the base, from which a light lemon- 

 coloured streak extends over the eye to the back of the 

 head, and another short similar streak beneath the eye, 

 through which a narrow band of dusky passes. Head on 

 the crown, greenish yellow, the centre with a streak of paler ; 

 neck and nape, greenish yellow: chin, throat, and breast, pale 

 yellow; back, greenish yellow. The wings extend to the 

 width of six inches and a half, and reach, when closed, to 

 within three quarters of an inch of the end of the tail; the 

 wing coverts are crossed with two conspicuous bands of lemon- 

 colour; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, dusky, edged 

 with pale yellow, becoming broader on the secondaries. Legs 

 and toes, brown, the under surface of the latter inclining 

 to yellow j claws, brown. 



