FEMALE GOLDEN-CROWNED GOLD-CREST. 
REGULUS CRISTATUS. 
Plate II. Fig. 4. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, I, p. 126, PI. 8, fig. 2, for the Male. 
Motacilla regains, Linn. Syst. I, p. 338, Sp. 48. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 995, Sp. 48. 
Sylvia regains, Lath. Ind. p. 548, Sp. 152. Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 229. Ranzani, 
Elem. di Zool. Ill, Part Y, p. 105, PI. 16, fig. 3. 
Regains cristatus, Ray, Syn. p. 79, Sp. 9. Aldr. Orn. II, p. 649. Will. Orn. p. 163, 
PI. 42. Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. XXIX, p. 420. 
Regains vulgaris, Stephens, Cont. of Shaw’s Zool. XX, p. 758, PI. 59. 
Paras calendula, Regains cristatus vulgo Dicta, Briss. Av. Ill, p. 579, Sp. 17. 
Le Roitelet, Gerard in, Tabl. Elem. d’ Orn. I, p. 318, Sp. 26, PI. 15, (not of Buff. Ois. 
V, p. 363, PI. 16, fig. 2, nor PI. Enl. 651, fig. 3, which represent Sylvia ignicapilla 
of Brehm.) 
Regolo, Storia degli uccelli, IV, PI. 390. 
Gold-crested Wren, Lath. Syn. II, Part II, p. 508, Sp. 145. Penn. Brit. Zool. Sp. 153. 
Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 321. 
Golden-crowned Wren, Edw. Glean. Y, p. 95, PI. 254, lower fig. Male. 
Philadelphia Museum , No. 7246, Male; No. 7247, Female. 
Two distinct species of Gold-crest have been, until lately, consi¬ 
dered by naturalists as but one. Are they both inhabitants of this 
continent; and, if not, which is the American species? These ques¬ 
tions cannot be readily answered, since we have nothing better than 
negative evidence to offer relative to the first. The present female, 
however, is decisive as to which of them inhabits this country, and 
we have therefore concluded, that the faithful representation in the 
accompanying plate will be acceptable to ornithologists. A slight 
inspection of this specimen leaves no doubt as to its being the 
female of the Regulus cristatus; and, should the Regulus ignica- 
