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Dalmatian Regulus, Regulus modestus, Gould. — I shot a small 

 species of Wren at Hartley in September, 1838, and shortly after- 

 wards gave a notice of the capture in the Annals of Nat. Hist., 

 Vol. II, p. 310, identifying it with the Regulus modestus of 

 Gould ; but I now find that there are two closely allied species, 

 and that my bird is distinct from that described by Mr. Gould. 



The Rev. Mr. Tristram has kindly favoured me with a view 

 of a series of specimens of both the species. The one is distin- 

 guished from the other chiefly by a broad pale yellow belt across 

 the rump, and that gentleman informs me that the species so 

 characterized was described by Pallas under the specific denomi- 

 nation of proregulus, and the other species is given by Gmel, 

 under the name of superciliosus. Now, my specimen has no such 

 band across the rump ; while that figured by Mr. Gould possesses 

 this character. My bird therefore must stand under the name 

 of Reguloides superciliosus (Sp.), Gmel. Gould's name will have 

 to drop into a synonym of Reguloides proregulus (Sp.), Pall. 



XXVI. — -Meteorological Report for 1866. Edited by the Rev. 

 R. P. Wheeler, M.A. 



January. — Otterburn. — Snow from 8th to 13th. 



By well. — A lunar halo was seen on 30th, and again on 31st. 



Wylam. — An exceedingly changeable month : one day very 

 fine ; very coarse the next. A good deal of sudden and often 

 violent wind. The fluctuations of the mercury in the barometer 

 were great and sudden, the general tendency upwards from 

 28-510 on the 9th, to 30-392 on the 24th, when it fell suddenly 

 and continued depressed till the end of the month. 



The temperature, 41-15, was (41-15-35-97) 5-18° above the 

 mean of the previous ten years. 



North Shields. — A solar halo was seen on the 30th, and lunar 

 halos on the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 30th. 

 An unusually mild month. 



