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CUVIER'S REGULUS. 



Regulus CUVIERII. 

 PLATE LV. Male. 



I HAVK named this pretty and rare species after Baron Cuvier, not 

 merely by way of acknowledgment for the kind attentions which I have 

 received at the hands of that deservedly celebrated naturahst, but more 

 as a homage due by every student of nature to one at present unrivalled 

 in the knowledge of General Zoology. 



I shot the bird represented in the Plate, on my father-in-law's plan- 

 tation of Fatland Ford, on the Skuylkill River in Pennsylvania, on the 

 8th June 1812, while on a visit to my honoured relative Mr William 

 Bakewell. The drawing which I then made I have kept to this date, 

 without having described the bird from which it was taken. I killed this 

 little bird, supposing it to be one of its relatives, the Ruby-crested Wren, 

 whilst it was searching for insects and larvae amongst the leaves and blos- 

 soms of the Kalmia latifolia, on a branch of which you see it represented, 

 and was not aware of its being a different bird until I picked it up from 

 the ground. I have not seen another since, nor have I been able to learn 

 that this species has been observed by any other individual. It might, 

 however, be very easily mistaken for the Ruby-crowned Wren, the man- 

 ners of which appear to be much the same. 



My excellent friend Charles Lucian Bonaparte, to whom also I 

 shewed my drawing of this bird in London, proposed naming it Reguhis 

 Carhunculus ; and I should probably have introduced it to you, kind 

 reader, under that appellation, had I not changed it for that of Regtilus 

 Cuvierii, on my fortunately becoming acquainted with the highly cele- 

 brated and equally kind Secretary of the Royal Institute of France. 



The Kalmia latifolia grows in great profusion in the State of Penn- 

 sylvania, and along the range of the AUeghanies, in all rocky and hiUy 

 situations. 



Begulus Cuvierii. 

 Plate LV. Male. 



