PLATE 1 
Le Poul, ou Souci, ou Roitelet hupé, Calendula, Brifon, av. I 
P.570~ 2 17 24. 2, O51. fe. 3. 
Le Roitelet. Buff cif V. p. 363. ph 16, fi 2 
Fior rancio. Olina. pl. in p. 6. 
La Soulcie, Belon av. 345. 
Kongs fogel. Faun, Suec. fp. 262. 
Kratlich. Scopali, IN? 2.40. 
Sommer Zaunkoenig (Summer Wren.) Frifch, 1. 246 
Goldhannel. Kram. 378. 
Fugle-Konge. Brun. 285. 
The golden crefted Wren is the fmalleft bird yet difcovered, in 
either of the Britifh ifles; is common to France, Auftria, Italy, and 
moft other parts of Europe; and in thofe countries, as with us, if 
appears to be the leaft native fpecies. 
But difcoveries in the interior parts of fouth America, have verified, 
that it is not the leaft kind exifting; in that country where the Con- 
dor is found, the moft diminutive fpecies of the feathered tribe are alfo 
taken; and to thofe the leaft European bird bears a gigantic difpropor- 
tion; for inftance, the length of the golden-crefted Weis te: hice 
inches and an half, its weight feventy-fix grains: but the total 
length of the leaft South-American Humming bird * is not more than 
an inch and a quarter, and its weight when frefh killed twenty 
grains ¢; the female is yet fmaller f. 
Pere! SS eo: TS See bee a 
* 'Trochilus minimus Liz. Sy. 1. p. 193. N° 22. 
+ Sir Hans Sloane. Zam. i. p. 3070 | + Brown. Fam p. 4756 
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