356 SYLVIADA. 
that he considers the individual from which he deseribed 
as unique in the continental collections. The description 
of my bird, which will now entitle this species to a place 
in the British Fauna, is as follows :—Length 4; inches : 
breadth 6% inches: length from the carpus to the end of 
the wing 27; inches; tail 17; inches; the bill from the 
gape to the tip nearly =; and from the tips of the fea- 
thers, which extend to the extremity of the nostrils, a 
quarter of an inch. The whole of the upper plumage a 
greenish yellow; on the centre of the crown of the head 
is a streak of paler: a light lemon-coloured streak extends 
over the eye from the base of the bill to the occiput; a 
short streak of the same colour passes beneath the eye, and 
a narrow band of dusky passes through the eye, and 
reaches the termination of the auriculars. The under- 
parts pale yellow; the ridge of the wing bright lemon 
colour; wing feathers dusky, edged with pale yellow, 
becoming broader on the secondaries; two conspicuous 
bands of lemon colour across the coverts; the wings reach 
to within three quarters of an inch of the end of the tail. 
Bill brown, with the under mandible paler at the base; 
mouth yellow; legs and toes brown, with the under 
surface of the toes inclining to yellow; claws brown. 
Its manners, as far as I had an opportunity of examining 
them, were so like those of the Golden-crested Wren, that 
at first I mistook it for that species. It was continually 
in motion, flitting from place to place in search of insects 
on umbelliferous plants, and such other herbage as the 
bleak banks of the Northumberland coast affords; such 
a situation could not be at all suited to the habits of this 
species, and there can be little doubt that it had arrived 
at the coast previous to, or immediately after, its autumnal 
migrations.” 
