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note, like that of the Sedge Warbler, I looked for the 

 bird, and got a fair sight of it for a moment while 

 sitting on the top of the hedge, when I discovered 

 it was no common Warbler, but a bird with a 

 reddish-brown back, with (I think) a black line across 

 the wings : the cheeks and breast were greyish white. 

 I thought it would prove to be Savi's Warbler, but 

 I had no idea how closely Morris's plate would de- 

 scribe my bird.' * I am rather uncertain about this 

 being the real Savi's Warbler, but I give the state- 

 ment for what it is worth. 



FIRE-CRESTED REGULUS (Regulus ignacapillus}. 

 A rare visitor ; but doubtless often considered to be 

 commoner than is really the case, for many persons 

 suppose that the only distinguishing point between 

 the Gold-crest and the Fire-crest consists in the latter 

 having a brighter crest. Were this so, mistakes would 

 be endless. The three lines which are conspicuous 

 on the cheeks of the Fire-crest are in the Gold-crest 

 absent. About three years since, two Fire-crests were 

 procured near Eton ; and Mr Hasell told me that he 

 had had the nest and young of the Fire-crested Wren, 

 together with the old birds, brought to him in 1863. 

 The nest was built in a yew-tree, nine feet from the 

 ground, close to Frogmore House in Windsor Park. 



* Mr. Harting kindly supplied me with the following note : ' The 

 note is not at all like that of the Sedge Warbler, but more like that of 

 the Grasshopper Warbler. It can scarcely be said to have a reddish- 

 brown back, the colour being the same as that of the Reed \Vren, and 

 there is no black line across the wings.' 



