72 BIRD WORLD. 



Our wren is a cousin of Jenny Wren, the favorite 

 of all English children. Jenny is a smaller bird, and 

 she stays in England all the year, while our wren 

 leaves us in the fall for the south, where she can find 

 the insects which she eats. 



• Like the swallow and the Bluebird, the wren seems 

 glad to make his home near the homes of people, and 

 no one has ever accused him of doing anything but 

 good to the farmer or gardener. 



To find the birds of the picture, — the Long-billed 

 Marsh Wrens, — we must go to some soft, wet place, 

 which in early spring may require the use of high 

 rubber boots. These birds are near cousins of the 

 House Wren, but choose to live among the cat- tails. 

 They have learned to weave, and instead of nesting 

 in holes or boxes they make their homes of rushes. 

 Regular basket-work it is, and the almost globular 

 nests hung in the reeds may hold eight or nine 

 chocolate eggs. 



