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FIRECREST. 
FIRE-CRESTED KINGLET. FIRE-CROWNED KINGLEP. 
FIRE-CRESTED WREN. 
Reguius ignicapillus, JENYNS. MACGILLIVRAY. 
Sylvia iynicapilla, TEMMINCE. 
fiegulus—A diminutive of Rex—a king. Ignicapillus. Ignis—Fire. 
Capillus—A head of hair. : 
Tus closely-allied species, which M. Brehm was the first 
to discriminate, is found in large forests in Germany, and 
in Belgium, Frauce, and Switzerland; Meyer says that it also 
velongs to North America. 
The Rev. Leonard Jenyns first made known this bird as a 
British one, having obtained a specimen in his garden at 
Swaffham Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in the month of August, 
1832. It was a young bird, and had therefore probably been 
reared in the same neighbourhood. Since then Mr. J. E. 
Gray has observed others at Brighton, in Sussex; one was 
obtained also near Durham, and another was caught on the 
rigging of a ship five miles out at sea, off the coast of 
Norfolk, wm the early part of October, 1836; another was 
killed on the North Denes, near Yarmouth, the 6th. of 
November, 1843; one was shot in the parish of St. Clement, 
Cornwall, and Edward Hearle Rodd, Esq., of Penzance, says 
in the ‘Zovilogist,’ page 3758, that this species frequents that 
neighbourhood, chiefly at Larrigan Valley, in greater or less. 
numbers every year about the beginning of December, and 
that one was killed near Marazion in 1852. It has also 
been met with in Sutherlandshire, by Mr: Bantock, the Duke 
of Sutherland’s gamekeeper. 
These birds frequent fir and other plantations, as well as 
also larger trees. ‘They too associate with the Titmice. They 
