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INSECTIVOR^. 



Famihj SYLVIABJE. 



Genus Regulus. f Ray.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak very slender, short, straight, 

 dilated at the base, and compressed towards the point; edge 

 of the mandible slightly turned in; nostrils oval, covered by 

 two small, stiff, arched feathers, with slight disunited webs, 

 "Wings of moderate length, the first quill very short, the 

 second and eighth equal, the fourth and fifth the longest in 

 the wing. Legs slender; the middle toe united at its base 

 with the external, the posterior the strongest of all; tail 

 sloping, and composed of ten feathers. 



EUBY-CEOWNED KINGLET. 



Regulus calendula. 



Motacilla calendula, Linnj5US. 



Regulus calendula, Lichtenstein. xIudubon. 



" " Wilson. Bonapaete. 



Sylvia calendula, NuTTAiL; Man., vol. i., p. 415. 



Le Hoitelet ruhris, Bufeon, 373. 



Specific Characters. — General plumage like that of the other 

 Goldcrests. The silky feathers of the crown of the head vermilion; 

 under parts greyish white. Length four inches and a quarter; 

 wing six inches; beak one-third of an inch; tarsus three-fourths 

 of an inch. 



