COMMON OR WINTER WREN. 



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with sooty black, deep brown, and white, in bars. Tail very short. 

 Legs and feet pale clay-color. Bill straight, half an inch long, dark 

 brown above, whitish beneath. Iris light hazel. 



GREAT CAROLINA or MOCKING WREN. 



(^Troglodytes ludovicianus, Boxap. Audubon, pi. 78. Orn. Biog. i. p. 

 399. Sijlvia ludoviciana, sp. 150. Lath. Certhia caroliniana, 

 WiLsox, ii. p. 6L pi. 12. fig. 5. Phil. Museum, No. 7248.) 



Sp. Charact. — Chesnut-brown ; wings and tail with dusky-bars, 

 the coverts tipt with white ; beneath pale rusty, inclining to grey 

 on the throat ; the vent white, barred with black ; a whitish stripe 

 over the eye, extending down to the side of the neck. — Female, 

 lighter, without the white on the wing coverts. 



This remarkable, mimicking, and musical Wren is a 

 constant resident in the Southern states, from Virginia to 

 Florida, but is rarely seen at any season north of the line 



