sila (EE 
Locality. 
192 PASSERES. REGULUS. GOLDEN-CRESTED 
sufficiently marked to constitute a generic distinction, and also 
from its not coinciding in habits with the other members of 
that genus. For this innovation I quote the authority of 
Mons. Cuvier, who, in his “* Regne Animal,” has separated 
the Regulus from Sylvia. In habits its members closely ap- 
proach to the genus Parus (titmouse), and seem to form a 
connecting link between those two genera, particularly with 
reference to the three last described species of Sylvia, which 
perhaps ought properly to form a distinct genus. Of the one 
now before us, two species are known to inhabit Europe, and 
two are confined to Asia, and the northern part of the Ameri- 
can continent. 
Gold-crested Regulus.—Regulus auricapillus. 
PLATE 4%. Fig. 4. 
Sylvia Regulus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. vy. 2. p. 548. sp. 152, 
Motacilla Regulus, Linn. Syst. |. p. 338. 48.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 995. 
Regulus cristatus, Raii, Syn. p. 79. A. 9.—Wiil. p. 163. t. 42.—Briss. 3. 
- 979. 17. 
Reitelet ordinaire, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 229. 
Le Roitelet, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 363.—Id. Pl. Enl. 651. 3. 
Gegronter Sanger, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 250.—Frisch, t. 24. f. 4. 
Gold-crested Wren, Br. Zool. No. 153.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 321.—Wiii. 
(Ang.) p. 227.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 508. 145.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 112. 
—WMont. Ornith. Dict.— Wale. Syn. 2. t. 243.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 9. 
—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. 224.—Edw. t. 254. 1.—Low’s Fau. Orcad. 
This, although the most diminutive of the British birds, is 
yet of so hardy a constitution, as to brave the usual rigours 
of our winter. It is equally dispersed through England and 
Scotland, extending even to the Orkney Isles, where, accord- 
ing to Low, it is also indigenous. Woods and plantations 
are its habitual places of residence, but particularly those 
abounding in spruce, larch, and other species of fir, amongst 
which it not only finds a constant supply of the insect-food 
most congenial to it, but situations best adapted for conceal- 
ment, and for its peculiar mode of nidification. 
It breeds amongst the earliest of our birds, and I have 
