52 REGULID^. 



Sitta csesia. Nuthatch. 

 Sitta csesia Wolf, Taschenb. Deutsch. Vog. i. 1810, 



p. 128 : Germany. 

 Sitta CEesia Wolf; Gadotv, Cat. Birds B. M. viu. 1883, p. 347 ; 

 B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 28; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 113. 

 Csesia = bluish-grey. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — Resident and common 

 in south and central England and in Wales ; becoming 

 scarce in the north and extreme west, and. not breeding 

 regularlj^ north o£ Yorkshire in the east and Cheshire in the 

 west. Its visits to Scotland have been few and chiefly to 

 the south-east. In Ireland it is unknown ; a bird recorded 

 from CO. Dublin in March 1911, had no doubt escaped. 



General Distribution. — The Nuthatch breeds throughout 

 central and southern Europe, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees, 

 Sicily, and Greece. It has been recorded from Spain and 

 north-west Africa. It is represented in south-western Asia 

 by nearly related forms, while a distinct species [S. europcea) 

 occurs in Scandinavia, Russia and northern Asia, and another 

 (<S. whiteheadi) in Corsica. 



Family EEGULID^. 



Genus REGULUS Cuvier, Leq. d'Anat. Comp. i. 1800, 

 tab. 2. 



Type : R. regulus (Linn.). 



Regulus, diminutive of rex = a king. Used of the Wren, Carmen, de 

 Philomel. 13 (about a.d. 500). 



Regulus regulus. Goldceest. 



Motacilla regulus Linnmus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 188 : 



Sweden. 

 Eegulus cristatus Koch ; Qadow, Gat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, 



p. 80; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 14; Saunders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 57. 



G^'istdtus = furnished with a crest. 



