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YELLOW WREN. Class II. 



ici. Yellow Chofti, ou Chanteur. Belon Schmittl. Krajn. 378. 



^ ^.,^^ ^,, Le Pouillot, ouchantre. Afi- 



Troc'hilus.* Gefnera'v.'] 26. lus. Brijfon a^. III. 479. 



Afilus. Aldr. a^v. II. 293. Motacilla trochilus. Ltn. fyjf. 



Little yellowifh Bird. Wil. 338. -Sfo/o//, No. 238. 



orn. 228. ^«««- Suec.fp. 264. 



i?«/V ^•«. «'^. 80. Spurre-Konge, Fager-Fiis. 



Ed^-vj. a^. 278. Br. 286. 



SchneeRienig (Snow king). Br.Zool. loi. plate b. t. 2. 

 Fr//?/^, I. 24. S. 2. f. I. 



THE yellow wren frequents large moift 

 woods, and places where willow trees a- 

 bound from which it takes one of its names. 

 D £ 5 c R I p. Its weight is about two drams. The color of the 

 whole upper part of the body is a dufls:y green : 

 the wings and tail are brown, edged with yellow- 

 ifh green : above each eye is a yellowifli (Iroke ; 

 the bread, belly, and thighs vary in their color in 

 different birds ; in fome are of a bright yellow, in 

 others it fades almoft into white. 



It builds in hollows in the fides of ditches, mak- 

 ing its neft in the form of an egg ; with a large 

 hole at the top, as an entrance : the outfide is com- 

 pofed of mofs and hay, the infide lined with foft fea- 

 thers. It lays commonly feven white eggs, marked 

 with numerous fmall rufl colored fpots. It has alow 

 plaintive note^ and is perpetually creeping up and 

 down the bodies and boughs of trees. 



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