MOT AC ILL A REGULUS. 



GOLDEN-CRSETED WREN. 



Generic Character, See Motacilla Troglodytes. 



Synonyms. 



Motacilla Regulus. Lin. Sy/i. 1. p. 338. 

 Golden-Crested Wren. Br. Zool. 153, Lath. Syn. 



4. p. 508. Bewick's Br. 



Birds, Pi. 1, p. 233. Mw//. 



Orn. Lift. 



X H I S is the fmalleft Britifh bird, being in length little 

 more than three inches ; weighs about feventy grains : bill 

 flender, ftraight, having an inclination upwards ; eyes remark- 

 ably lively ; the feathers on the crown are long, forming a 

 erefl of a bright gold colour, which appears brighter by being 

 contrafted with a band of black, paffing from the eyes to the 

 extremity of the crefl: ; this band it can erect at pleafure, and 

 with it at times nearly obfcures the crefl: \ legs flender \ in the 

 female the crefl: is of a pale yellow, and the colours in general 

 incline to brown. 



Montague, in his Dictionary of Britifli Birds, fays, " the 

 nefl: is not made with an opening at the fide, as defcribed 



by 



