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DALMATIAN REGULUS. 
Regulus modestus, GOULD. 
Regulus—A diminutive of Rer—a king. Modestus— 
Modest—sober. 
Tue Baron De Feldegg, of Frankfort, shot one specimen 
of this bird in Dalmatia, in the year 1829, the first on 
record; and the only other that has as yet been met with 
was killed by Mr. John Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
in the county of Northumberland, near Hartley, on the sea 
coast, on the 26th. of September, 1838. These are the only 
two, ‘par nobile,’ of these Kinglets that have yet been discovered 
in our continent, and none have been known anywhere else. 
It feeds on insects. 
Male; length, barely over four inches; bill, brown, the 
under mandible paler at the base, from which a light lemon- 
coloured streak extends over the eye to the back of the 
head, and another short similar streak beneath the eye, 
through which a narrow band of dusky passes. Head on 
the crown, greenish yellow, the centre with a streak of paler; 
neck and nape, greenish yellow: chin, throat, and breast, pale 
yellow; back, greenish yellow. The wings extend to the 
width of six inches and a half, and reach, when closed, to 
within three quarters of an inch of the end of the tail; the 
wing coverts are crossed with two conspicuous bands of lemon- 
colour; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, dusky, edged 
with pale yellow, becoming broader on the secondaries. Legs 
and toes, brown, the under surface of the latter inclining 
to yellow; claws, brown. 
