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has occurred in a very few instances, in the south-eastern parts 
of England ; the first individual found having been obtained 
by Mr Jenyns, in his garden, at Swaffham Bulbeck, near Cam- 
bridge, in the autumn of 1832. It is said to be dispersed over 
the continent, and to be migratory. 
Sylvia ignicapilla, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 231. — Eegulus 
ignicapillus, Id. Ibid. iii. 158. — Eegulus ignicapillus. Fire- 
crowned Kinglet, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, ii. 416. 
88. Eegulus modestus. Plain-crowned Kinglet. 
Not having seen this bird, first described by Mr Gould, I 
transcribe from the Annals of Natural History, the following 
notice, by Mr Hancock of Newcastle-on-Tyne, respecting an 
individual shot on the 26th of September 1838 : — The whole 
of the upper plumage a greenish-yellow ; on the centre of the 
crown of the head is a streak of paler ; a light lemon-coloured 
streak extends over the eye from the base of the bill to the 
occiput ; a short streak of the same colour passes beneath the 
eye, and a narrow band of dusky passes through the eye, and 
reaches the termination of the auriculars. The under parts 
pale yellow ; the ridge of the wing bright lemon-colour ; wing- 
feathers dusky, edged with pale yellow, becoming broader on 
the secondaries ; two conspicuous bands of lemon-colour cross 
the coverts ; the wings reach to within three-fourths of an 
inch of the end of the tail. Bill brown, with the under man- 
dible paler at the base ; mouth yellow ; legs and toes brown, 
with the under surface of the toes inclining to yellow ; claws 
brown. 
“ Its manners, as far as I had an opportunity of observing 
them, were so like those of the Golden-crested Wren, that at 
first I mistook it for that species. It was continually in mo- 
tion, fiitting from place to place in search of insects on um- 
belliferous plants, and such other herbage as the bleak banks 
of the Northumberland coast afibrds. Such a situation could 
not be at all suited to the habits of this species, and there 
can be little doubt that it had arrived at the coast previous 
to, or immediately after, its autumnal migrations.’’ This spe- 
cies is said to want the loose oblong feather which covers the 
nostril in all the rest. 
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Eegulus modestus, Gould, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. iv. 618. 
GENUS XLYIII. SIBILLATEIX. CHIEPEE. 
Bill of moderate length, straight, very slender, slightly 
