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SYLVIAD.E. 
brown. The top of the head is ornamented with a brilliant 
crest of elongated feathers of a rich orange colour ; this 
colour is bordered on each side with a stripe of deep black 
feathers, whose inner webs are pale lemon-yellow. The 
female perfectly resembles the male in the distribution of her 
colours, but her crest is paler, and inclining to yellow. 
The young birds of the year in autumn resemble their 
parents in the distribution of their colours, but the green 
on their upper plumage is strongly tinged with grey, espe¬ 
cially about the sides of the head : they are also smaller 
in size. The beak in adult birds is black: in young ones 
the base of the under mandible is horn-colour. It is thin 
and awl-shaped, broad at the base, and narrow towards the 
tip. 
The egg of the Golden-crested Wren is figured 73. 
