GOLDEN CRESTED REGULUS. 349 
Williamson of Scarborough, has observed this on the coast 
of Yorkshire ; and Mr. Selby has recorded that, “‘on the 
24th and 25th of October 1822, after a very severe gale, 
with thick fog from the north-east, but veering towards its 
conclusion to the east and south of the east, thousands of 
these birds were seen to arrive upon the sea-shore and sand- 
banks of the Northumbrian coast; many of them so 
fatigued by the length of their flight, or perhaps by the 
unfavourable shift of wind, as to be unable to rise again 
from the ground, and great numbers were in consequence 
caught or destroyed. This flight must have been immense 
in quantity, as its extent was traced through the whole 
length of the coasts of Northumberland and Durham. 
There appears little doubt of this having been a migration 
from the more northern provinces of Europe, probably 
furnished by the pine forests of Norway, Sweden, &c., 
from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous with 
that of large flights of the Woodcock, Fieldfare, and Red- 
wing. Although I had never before witnessed the actual 
arrival of the Gold-crested Regulus, I had long felt con- 
vineed, from the great and sudden increase of the species 
during the autumnal and hyemal months, that our indigen- 
ous birds must be augmented by a body of strangers 
making these shores their winter’s resort.” 
Mr. Macgillivray mentions this species as inhabiting 
Scotland, and the Rev. Mr. Low and Mr. Dunn include it 
in their accounts of the Birds of Shetland and Orkney ; it 
inhabits also Denmark, Norway, Sweden, part of Russia 
and Siberia; but many of them, as indicated by the 
autumnal flights referred to, leave the more northern parts 
of these countries for the winter, and spread themselves 
over the temperate portions to the southward, even to the 
shores of the Mediterranean. It is found in Sicily and 
