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THE FIRE-CROWNED GOLD-CREST. 
Regulus ignicapillus. 
PLATE VIII. 
This is the second and very rare species of 
British Gold-crest. We can give nothing of its 
history in addition to what Mr Yarrell has pub- 
lished in his excellent “ British Birds,” having had 
no opportunity of examining its habits. It is to the 
Rev. Leonard Jenyns that we are indebted for the 
first notice of this species as a British bird,* who 
obtained a specimen in his own garden at Swaffam 
Bulbeck, near Cambridge. Instances have since 
occurred of its capture at Brighton, near Durham, 
and on the coast of Norfolk. Their continental 
range does not seem exactly ascertained. Tem- 
minck mentions it as common in the Belgian 
provinces, and Brehm as breeding in Northern 
Germany. Mr Hoy, in some interesting notes 
communicated to Mr Yarrell, considers that they 
are migratory on the Continent during the winter, 
and that it prefers low brushwood and young 
plantations of fir to the loftier trees. lie has not 
heard their song ; but their common call-note 
differs, and is at once distinguishable from that 
of the common species. 
In our plate we have endeavoured to group 
* British Vertebrata, p. 113. 
