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manner ; or on the slender branches of taller ones, but more rarely : 

 the eggs are five or six in number, dirty white, dotted very thickly 

 with brown, in two shades ; and the dots so numerous, as to make 

 the colour appear at a distance an uniform grey. The note of this 

 bird is louder than could be expected from its size, and may be 

 heard a good way off; it has also a pretty soft, warbling note ; is 

 not uncommon in the lower part of the country, but not in the same 

 places as the Gold-crested. 



A. — Size of the last, and much the same as to general markings ; 

 but differs in having no streak on the crown, but a crimson crescent 

 across the hindhead; the under parts nearly white. This is now and 

 then met with in Georgia, and may probably be the same, which 

 Buffon says, was sent from Louisiana, and had the hind part of the 

 head environed with a crown of crimson. 



275.— REGAL WREN. 



Le Roi, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 161. 



LENGTH four inches, extent of wings five. Bill black, inside 

 of the mouth orange ; chin white ; throat, fore part of the neck, 

 breast, and belly, fine yellow ; a velvet-like black band, a quarter 

 of an inch broad, extends from the origin of each wing to the sides 

 of the breast ; lower belly fiery red ; upper wing coverts varied black 

 and white; sides and hind part of the head deep blue, appearing 

 black, and from the nostrils a yellow streak passes under the eye to 

 the hindhead ; top of the head black, in some dotted with rufous : 

 down the middle a small streak of fiery red ; upper parts of the body 

 in general dull green; wings black, or brown, with some white on 

 the coverts, and the tips yellow ; tail black, the outer feather white, 

 as well as as the margins and end of the second, and the end of the 

 third ; legs blackish. 



