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The nest has been found in Devon, WiltSj Dorset^ Hants^ Sussex, 

 Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex. 



The nest has once been taken in . Oxfordshire (Zoologist, 

 p. 2597) ; and Mr. J. J. Briggs has lately informed me that he 

 has taken a nest in Derbyshire, which he believes belongs to the 

 Dartford Warbler. Yarrell mentions its occurrence in Worcester- 

 shire and Leicestershire. It seems likely that the bird may occa- 

 sionally extend its range beyond latitude 52°, until killed or 

 driven back by an unusually severe winter. One of the species 

 characteristic of the South-European fauna, 



Eegulus cristatus {Koch). Golden-crested Wren. 



Provinces I.-XVII. 

 Subprovinces 1-35. 

 Lat. 50°-59°. " British " type, or general. 



Breeds as far north as Sutherland and Caithness {Mr. W. 

 Dunbar), but not in the Scottish isles. 



Obs. — Regulus ignicapillus (Naum.). In the third edition of 

 Hewitson's ' Eggs B. B.^ (vol. i. p. 148) occurs the remark : — 

 " The Eev. E. H. Browne has watched this species " [the Fire- 

 crested Wren] " during the summer near his residence at Blo^ 

 Norton, in Norfolk, and has no doubt it breeds there ; " but there 

 is too much reason to fear that the Golden-crested Wren has in 

 this instance been mistaken for the Fire-crested, which appears 

 to be only a winter visitant to Britain. 



[To be continued.] 



II. — A few Identifications and Rectifications of Synonymy. 

 By Edward Blyth. 



On looking over the type- specimens of Javanese birds described 

 or enumerated by the late Dr. Horsfield in the Thirteenth volume 

 of the ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,^ I find that several 

 of them appertain to Australian species, with which they have 

 only recently been identified by Mr. Swinhoe and myself. 



Falco pondicerianus apud Horsfield is a race intermediate to 



