. The sportsman's British bird book . be distinguishedby the wider tail-feathers, whichare faintly barred at the base ;the general colour of the upper-parts in the male being reddishbrown, and that of the under-parts white shading into buff. To central and southern Europe the species is a local summer-visitor from northern Africa, where, however, it also HE ROWLAND SAVI S WAKBLEK. Golden-crested Largely on account of the circumstance that eachWren (Reg-ulus nostril is overshadowed by a bristle-like feather,cristatus) ^^^ golden-crested wren (or gold-crest, as it is called by those who
. The sportsman's British bird book . be distinguishedby the wider tail-feathers, whichare faintly barred at the base ;the general colour of the upper-parts in the male being reddishbrown, and that of the under-parts white shading into buff. To central and southern Europe the species is a local summer-visitor from northern Africa, where, however, it also HE ROWLAND SAVI S WAKBLEK. Golden-crested Largely on account of the circumstance that eachWren (Reg-ulus nostril is overshadowed by a bristle-like feather,cristatus) ^^^ golden-crested wren (or gold-crest, as it is called by those who desire to give to popular names ofanimals a restricted meaning to which they have no claimj and itsrelatives are referred by many writers to a distinct family— additional arguments in favour of this view, are urged:—thediminutive size of these birds, their bright-coloured crowns, theirpeculiar nests, and the large number of their eggs ; but none ofthese features, nor the whole collectively, can claim any great value,and it seems best to follow those ornithologists who include thesebirds with the warblers in the family Sylviida^, of which they perhapsform a separate subfamil}, the Regulina:;. Here it may be mentionedthat an explanation is required, not only of the use of the feathercovering the nostril in these birds, but also of the purpo
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