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GOLDCREST. 
GOLDEN-CRESTED KINGLET. GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED WREN. 
Regulus cristatus, Fiemine. Ray. 
aur capillus, SELBY. JENYNS. 
“s vulgaris, GOULD. 
Motaciila regulus, Montacu. 
Sylvia regulus, PENNANT. TEMMINCK, 
Regulus—A diminutive of Rer—a king. Cristatus—Crested. 
THE Goldcrest, the smallest of our British Birds, is a Huropean 
species, and its northern range extends to the Arctic circle, 
being found in part of Russia and Siberia, Denmark, Nor- 
way, and Sweden, and south to Germany and the shores of 
the Mediterranean. It has been obtained also in Asia, in 
Persia, and, according to Temminack, in Japan. 
This truly elegant and diminutive bird is generally distributed 
over the whole of England, from the ‘Land’s End to John 
O’Groat’s House; as also in Wales, Scotland, and in Ireland. 
It is more common in the north than in the south. In 
Yorkshire it is plentiful. In Orkney it is pretty numerous 
during winter; many arrive there in October and November, 
during gales from the east., It occurs also in Shetland. 
Two of these little birds are stated in the’ ‘Zoologist,’ 
page 188, by Mr. George Swaysland, to have been met with 
at sea, forty miles from land. ‘They remain with us all the 
year through, at least many of them do. 
Additional ones come over to us in the autumn, and in 
like manner some again depart in the spring. In the mid- 
land counties fresh parties come in December, and some 
depart in March. On the Norfolk coast there are arrivals 
every year in October and November, and the birds are at 
first often so exhausted as to suffer themselves to be take 
