. A history of British birds . 456 PA SSFRKS. Regulus ignicapillus (C. L. Brehm*).THE FIRE-CRESTED WREN. Ixpfinhis }<i)iica})illus. The Fire-crested Wren was first made known as oc-curring in this country by Mr. Leonard Jenynsf, who ob-tained an example killed by a cat in his own garden atSwaff ham-Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in August, 1832 ; andthe specimen, being a young bird of the year, was exhibitedsoon after at a meeting of the Zoological Society (Proc. 1832, p. 189). It is now in the Museum of the Uni-versity of Cambridge. Early in October, 1836, an exa

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. A history of British birds . 456 PA SSFRKS. Regulus ignicapillus (C. L. Brehm*).THE FIRE-CRESTED WREN. Ixpfinhis }<i)iica})illus. The Fire-crested Wren was first made known as oc-curring in this country by Mr. Leonard Jenynsf, who ob-tained an example killed by a cat in his own garden atSwaff ham-Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in August, 1832 ; andthe specimen, being a young bird of the year, was exhibitedsoon after at a meeting of the Zoological Society (Proc. 1832, p. 189). It is now in the Museum of the Uni-versity of Cambridge. Early in October, 1836, an example,now in the collection of Mr. John Hancock, was caught onthe rigging of a ship five miles off the coast of Norfolk asrecorded by his brother (Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. p. 491).Since that time more than thirty other well-authenticatedoccurrences of the species in this country have been recorded,besides several more cases in which it is supposed to havebeen observed. Nearly half the specimens obtained have * .Syria «;/«(V;ap(7/ffl, Brehni, Temniinck, Man. dOrn. K

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