THE GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 305 
THE tiny GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN, as it is popularly called, is very 
common throughout England, and may be seen hopping and flitting merrily 
among the branches in copses, orchards, and plantations. Although from its 
diminutive size it has gained the title of Wren, it has no claim to that 
designation, and is more rightly termed the Kinglet, or Regulus. 
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TAILOR-BIRD.—( Ortholomus longicaudus.) 
The Golden-crested Wren is notable for the crest of golden-coloured 
feathers which is placed upon the crown of its head, which it can raise or 
depress at pleasure, and which gives so pert and changeful an expression to 
the little creature. But for this golden crest, which is not at all conspicuous 
when the feathers are lowered, the bird might easily be mistaken for a tree- 
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