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IN SESSORES. 



a hurtful insect. The Winter Wren visits us in 

 Pennsylvania from the north, just as the House Wren 

 has left us for its tropical home. It sometimes passes 

 the entire winter in the Middle States, where it may 

 be seen hopping about the wood-piles and the fallen 

 and decayed trunks of trees, with its tail erect, busy- 

 ing itself in singing its musical ditty, and picking 

 up the bugs that may be lurking in the crevices of 

 the bark. It disappears again early in Spring, and 

 passes to the northward in company with the Snow 

 Birds. 



The Titmouse, like 

 its cousin the Wren, 

 is an active, cunning 

 little creature, ever on 

 the go, hop, skip, and 

 jump, from branch to 

 branch, head down 

 or head up, as is most 

 convenient, inces- 

 santly prying into the 

 private affairs of the 

 insect world, often 

 laying waste the pros- 

 pects of a promising 

 family with one stroke 

 of its bill; and hunt- 

 ing up the vermin 

 with such untiring 

 industry as fairly to win for him a conspicuous place 

 among the farmer's friends. There are two species 



Upper jig. Crested Titmouse. 

 Lower Jig. Black-capped Titmouse. 



