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SYLYJADJE. 
INSESSORES. SYLVIA D/E. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
Regulus auricapillus. 
PLATE XXXVIII. FIGS. I. AND II. 
This, the least of our British Birds, is very generally 
dispersed throughout the country, and may he met with 
from the most northerly part of Scotland and its islands, 
to the southern extremity of England; we saw it also 
whilst travelling through the pine forests of Norway. In 
activity and habit, when in search of insects, it resembles 
much the various species of titmice, and may be seen, 
like them, and frequently in company with the cole tit¬ 
mouse, suspended from the branches of trees in al] those 
graceful and beautiful attitudes so peculiar to that tribe 
of birds. Its chief resort is in fir plantations, and its 
nest is usually placed in a tree of that species. It is 
most commonly suspended beneath the sheltering branches 
of the spruce fir-tree attached to some of the slender 
drooping twigs; of a nest thus suspended Mr. Yar- 
rell has given a nice figure in a vignette. It is sometimes 
built upon the upper surface of the branch ; and I have 
also seen it, but rarely, placed against the trunk of the 
tree upon the base of a diverging branch and at an ele¬ 
vation of from twelve to twenty feet above the ground; 
here the nests are not uncommon in the cedars which 
adorn our neighbourhood, and during the last summer 
I had the pleasure of watching these tiny birds from the 
commencement to the last finish of a beautiful nest which 
