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REGULUS CRISTATUS. 
black; the feet dusky; the toes and nails wax colour; 
the irides are dark brown. The frontlet is dull whitish 
gray, extending in a line over and beyond the eye; 
above this is a wide black line, confluent on the front, 
enclosing on the crown a wide longitudinal space of 
lemon yellow, erectile, slender feathers, with disunited 
webs; a dusky line passes through the eye, beneath 
which is a cinereous line, margined below by a narrow 
dusky one. The cervix and upper part of the body are 
dull olive green, tinged with yellowish on the rump. 
The whole inferior surface is whitish; the feathers, 
like those of the superior surface, being blackish-plumb- 
eous at base. The lesser and middling wing coverts are 
dusky, margined with olive green, and tipped with 
whitish; the greater coverts are dusky, the outer ones 
immaculate, the inner ones have white tips, which form 
a band on the wings. The inferior wing coverts, and 
all the under surface of the wings, are more or less 
w'hitish gray ; the primaries are dusky, with a narrow 
greenish yellow outer margin, wider at base, and 
attenuated to the tip, wfliere it is obsolete. The 
secondaries are dusky; on the outer web, they are 
whitish near the base, then black, then with a greenish 
yellow margin, extending nearly to the tip ; the margin 
of the inner web is white ; the secondaries nearest to 
the body are, moreover, whitish on the terminal margin. 
The tail is emarginated ; the feathers are dusky olive 
gTeen on the margin of the outer web; the inner 
margins, with the exception of the two middle ones, 
are whitish. 
Until their first moult, the young of both sexes are 
much like the adult female, except in being destitute of 
the yellow spot on the crest, which is greenish olive. 
In this state, however, they are not seen here, as they 
breed farther to the north, and moult before their 
arrival in the autumn. 
