BRITISH BIRDS* 
THE GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
( Motacilla regulus, Lin . — Le Roitelet, Buff.) 
This is fuppofed to be the leaf!: of all the Euro- 
pean birds ; it is certainly the fmalleft of the Bri- 
tifli kinds, being in length not quite three inches 
and a half,* and weighs only feventy-fix grains :■ 
Its bill is very flender and dark ; eyes hazel ; on 
the top of its head the feathers are of a bright orange 
colour, bordered on each fide with black, which 
forms an arch above its eyes, and with which it 
fometimes conceals the crown, by contracting the 
mufcles of the head ; the upper part of the body 
is of a yellowilh green or olive colour ; all the un- 
* The body, when ftripped of its feathers, is not quite an 
inch long.— Buff* 
