. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes . ^ bush and shrub, greator small, as a useless obstacle, and thus robs the bird of eveu the last naturalprotection of its nest. Having thus driven the poor creatures into distant andless densely populated districts, we complain that we no longer hear their merrysong, unconscious of the fact that we are ourselves responsible for the cause. This is a point which I have always insisted upon: no Act for the protectionof wild birds, which does not forbid the wholesale grubbing of woods, and so-called waste land, will eve
. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes . ^ bush and shrub, greator small, as a useless obstacle, and thus robs the bird of eveu the last naturalprotection of its nest. Having thus driven the poor creatures into distant andless densely populated districts, we complain that we no longer hear their merrysong, unconscious of the fact that we are ourselves responsible for the cause. This is a point which I have always insisted upon: no Act for the protectionof wild birds, which does not forbid the wholesale grubbing of woods, and so-called waste land, will ever prevent the diminution of bird-life in our Islands. The Gold-crest is generally distributed over Europe in Scandinavia northwardto the Arctic Circle, and in Russia from Archangel and the Ural Mountains ; in. Golden-Crested Wren j Plats 22. The Goluen-Crested Wren. 85 tlie east, southwards to the Himalayas and China, and in the west down to theMediterranean. Dixon (Jottings about Birds, p. 70) observes:— It is said that the Gold-crest, R. cristatus (Koch) visits Algeria in winter, but I cannot find any conclusiveevidence of the fact. It is said regularly to pass Malta on migration in springand autumn. In Great Britain it is generally distributed wherever coniferous trees occur,and breeds with us. Although the Gold-crest is the smallest British bird, its migratory powersare inferior to none, and its capacity for resisting cold so great, that it remainswith us even in our severest winters : it is a common error to suppose thatsize necessarily accompanies vigour, inasmuch as many of the tiniest birds areundoubtedly far more hardy than larger species : as an instance, I would callattention to the little Indian Avadavat, which I have proved to be indifferent to21 degrees of frost ; whereas ma
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