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DALMATIAN GOLD-CREST. 
this bird with the common species, and to exhibit 
the markings on the head and cheeks by which 
it is most easily at once distinguished from it. 
The principal colours assimilate very closely with 
those of the common Gold-crest. The upper 
parts are of a more yellow tint, particularly on 
the back and sides of the neck. The crest is of 
the most brilliant orange or fire colour, as the 
name indicates : it is surrounded in front and on 
the sides with deep black, and above each eye, 
from the nostril, the black is contrasted with a 
line of clear yellowish white j succeeding this 
there is a second band of black passing through 
the eyes, and a third stretching under from the 
corners of the gape. In the female, the colour 
of the crest approaches nearer to that of the 
common bird j but the three black bands always 
serve to distinguish them, and, in ignorance of 
the peculiarity of their call-note or song, as 
pointed out by Mr Hoy, they are good marks t® 
be looked for when seeking this species among 
the troops of our more abundant native. 
Dalmatian Gold-crest — Regulus mo- 
destus, Gould. — When Mr Gould published his 
figure of a bird under this name in his Birds of 
Europe, we expressed our suspicions that it might 
be an immature specimen, or one in the nestling 
plumage, of either of the two birds we have just 
mentioned. The existence of only a single spe- 
cimen, and the impossibility of examining it, 
