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DALMATIAN GOLD-CREST. 
this species to a place in British Fauna, is as fol- 
lows : length, 4^ ; breadth, 64 ; length from the 
corpus to the end of the wing, 2 T ' 5 ; tail 1-,^ ; the 
bill, from the gape to the tip, nearly r \ ; and 
from the tips of the feathers, which extend to the 
extremity of the nostrils, 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 i of an inch of the end of the tail. Bill 
brown, with the under mandible 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 mis- 
took it for that species ; it was continually in 
motion, flitting from place to place in search of 
insects or umbelliferous plants, and such other 
herbage as the bleak banks of the Northumbrian 
coast affords. 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 on the 
