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caught on the rigging of a ship five miles off the coast of 
Norfolk in the early part of October 1836. Since that 
period the Fire-crested Regulus is recorded to have been 
taken in Kent; W. R. Fisher, Esq., has obtained one in 
Norfolk, and E. H. Rodd, Esq, of Penzance, sent me 
notice on the 8th of March 1845, of a female that had 
been obtained there on that day. 
Although this species is not anywhere so numerous as 
the little Gold Crest, the general resemblance in the two 
birds has probably caused the rarer one to be occasionally 
overlooked. M. Temminck says it is common in large 
forests in Germany, and M. Brehm, a naturalist of that 
country, says that it comes there m March and April, and 
leaves again in September and October. Of the habits of 
this species in France, M. Vieillot says that its voice is 
stronger than that of the Gold Crest, and that pairs of them 
only are usually seen together; but that the time of their 
passage in France, as compared with that of the Gold 
Crest, is later in the spring, and earlier m the autumn. A 
nest of this bird, found by M. Vieillot near Rouen, was 
suspended under a branch of a tree, like that of its generic 
companion, and contained five eggs. According to other 
authors, this bird sometimes lays as many as ten eggs, of a 
pale flesh colour, marked with small red spots at the 
larger end. The food is said to be similar to that of the 
preceding species. It is occasionally seen in France during 
winter. It has been noticed in Sicily, Malta, and Algeria. 
I am indebted to Mr. J. D. Hoy for the following notes 
of the habits of this species, as observed by himself on the 
Continent, and I insert them with the greater pleasure, be- 
cause they will assist observers in further identifying the 
species in this country. 
““M. Temminck describes the Regulus ignicapillus as 
