. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . supposed nestof this bird, found at Blonorton, particulars of whichwere communicated to Hewitson for his Eggsof British Birds, proved to belong to the Golden-crested Wren. Fam. TROGLODYTIDiE. COMMON WREN. Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. PI. 17, figs. 9, 9a. Length, 4 in. ; wing, 2 in.; tarsus, 75 in. Resident, and everywhere common, but to acertain extent migratory in spring and autumn: seemy note on Wren observed crossing a gro
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . supposed nestof this bird, found at Blonorton, particulars of whichwere communicated to Hewitson for his Eggsof British Birds, proved to belong to the Golden-crested Wren. Fam. TROGLODYTIDiE. COMMON WREN. Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. PI. 17, figs. 9, 9a. Length, 4 in. ; wing, 2 in.; tarsus, 75 in. Resident, and everywhere common, but to acertain extent migratory in spring and autumn: seemy note on Wren observed crossing a grouse moor,Zool., 1887, p. 431. The Wren of Shetland is, on an average, largerthan the typical bird, though usually rather smallerthan the Icelandic and Faroese form. Troglodyteshorealis {Zool, 1891, p. 294). The St. Kilda Wren,described and figured by Seebohm {Zool., 1884, ), and by Dixon {Ibis, 1885, p. 80, PI. 3), asTroglodytes hirtensis, so far from being, as supposed,a newly discovered species, was long ago noticed byMartin in his Voyage to St. Kilda (1698), and bythe Rev. Kenneth Macaulay in his History of (1764). Moreover, the supposed points of. OJ ■j: to *o CREEPERS 59 difference are all observable in specimens from vari-ous parts of Europe, so that it cannot be regardedas specifically distinct from our well-known Troglo-djjtesparvulus. See Dresser, Ihis, 1886, p. 43; ZooL,1889, p. 116 ; and Saunders, Manual, p. 107. Seealso the remarks on the Wren observed in St. Kildaby R. M. Barrington, Zool, 1884, p. 383. Fam. CERTHIID^. TREE CREEPER. Certhia familiaris, Linnsius. PI. 17,V figs. 10,10<x. Length, exclusive of curved bill, 4*5 in.; wing, 2*5 in.; tarsus, -65 in. Resident and generally distributed. As to thedifferentiation of the British from the Continentalform, see Ibis, 1897, p. 615, and 1898, p. 177. Fam. SITTIDiE. NUTHATCH. Sitta c^sia, Meyer. PI. 9, figs. 10, , 5*5 in.; wing, 3*25 in.; tarsus, 8 in. Resident in England, rare in Scotlan
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