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ochreous in tinge and sometimes the minute red dots are 

 collected round the larger end. The number of eggs is usually 

 8 or 9, but as many as 11 have been found in one clutch. 



135. MADEIRAX GOLD-CREST. 

 REOULUS MADERENSIS. 



Regulus maderensis Vemon Harconrt, P.Z.S. p. 153 (1854) ; Dresser, ii. 

 p. 465, pi. 73, fig. 2 ; Koenig, J.f.O. 1890, p. 278, Taf. viii. fig. 8 

 (eggs). 

 Abibe, Portug ; Eisbis in Madeira. 



<J ad. (Madeira). Differs from K cristatus, but has the crown less 

 richly coloured, the pale streaks above and below the eye shorter, the sides 

 of head and neck, the nape and fore-part of the back rich slaty ash, the 

 tarsus longer and the feet larger. Culmen 0*5, wing 2-2, tail ] '8, tarsus 

 0'8 inch. The female is duller and has the crown paler. 



Hah. Madeira. 



Frequents the Laurel groves and tree heaths and in its 

 general habits does not differ from E. cristatus. Its nest 

 resembles that of our Goldcrest but is rather larger and the 

 eggs, usually 4 in number, are white with a wreath of red dots 

 almost confluent round the larger end, and a few paler red dots 

 scattered over the rest of the surface, and measure about 0'54 

 by 0-43. 



PHYLLOSCOPUS, Boie, 1826. 



136. WILLOW- WREN 

 PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS. 



Phylloscopus trochilus, (Linn.) Syst. Nat. 1. p. 338 (1766) ; (Hewitson), 

 ^ i. p. 137, pi. 36, figs. 1, 2 ; (Naumann), iii. p. 568, Taf. 80, fig. 3 ; 

 (Gould), B. of E. ii. pi. 131 ; (id.) B. of Gt. Brit. ii. pi. 65 ; Newton, 

 i. p. 432 ; Dresser, ii. p. 491, pis. 75, fig. 2, 76, fig. 2 ; Saunders, 

 p. 69 ; Lilford, iii. p. 64, pi. 32 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. 

 p. 56. 



Pouillot-fitis, French ; Folosa, Portug.; Almendrita, Span.; Lui- 

 giallo, Ital.; Fitis Laubvogd, German ; DeFitis, Dutch; Lofsanger, 

 Danish and Norweg.; Lofsdngare Swed. ; Uunilintu, Permalinla, 

 Finn. ; Panoschka obniknovennaya Russ. 



$ ad. (England). Upper parts greyish brown tinged with pale green ; 

 the rump more yellowish green ; under parts washed with yellowish, breast 

 .and flanks tinged with buff ; superciliary streak greenish yellow ; bill, 

 legs, and iris brown. Exposed part of bastard or first primary 0'58, the 



