su 



GOLDEN CRESTED WARBLER. Class II. 



Crested. 



10. Golden Sylvia. Regulus. S. virescens, 

 remigibus secundariis exte- 

 riori margine flavis, medio 

 albis, vertice luteo. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 548. id. Syn. iv. 

 508. 



La Soulcie. Belon av. 345. 



Tettigon. ols. 12. 



Regulus. Gesner av. 727. 



Fior rancio. Olina, 6. 



Aldr. av. ii. 2Q0. 



Wil. orn. 227. 



Rail Syn. av. 79. 



Ediv. av. 254. 



Cat. Carol, app. 3Q, 37. 



Kratllch. Scopoli, No. 240. 



Le Poul, ou Souci, ou Roi- 

 telethupe', Calendula. Bris- 

 son av. iii. 579- Hist, d'ois. 

 v. 363. PL Enl.651. f. 3. 



Motacilla Regulus. Gm. Lin. 

 995. 



Kongsfogel. Faun. Suec. sp. 

 262. 



Sommer Zaunkoenig (Sum- 

 mer Wren). Frisch, i. 24. 



Goldhannel. Kram. 378. 



Fugle-Konge. Br. 285. 



Br. Zool. 101. plate S. f. 3. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. 109. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



X HIS is the lest of the British birds, weigh- 

 ing only seventy-six grains. Its length is three 

 inches and a half; the breadth five inches; it 

 may readily be distinguished from all other birds, 

 not only by its size, but by the beautiful scarlet 

 mark on the head, bounded on each side by a 

 fine yellow line. The bill is dusky; the feathers 

 of the forehead are green ; from the bill to the 

 eyes is a narrow white line ; the back and the 

 hind part of the neck are of a dull green ; the 

 coverts of the wings dusky, edged with green 

 and tipt with white ; the quil feathers and tail 

 dusky, edged with pale green. The throat and 

 lower part of the body white, tinged with green ; 



