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Fig. 231. This was an inexperienced wren; she always found 

 it difficult to get long twigs in the small door. 



wren was even more agile than he and would put him to 

 flight every time. 



Downy did not like the colony of bees either ; often I had 

 seen him hitch around the tree trunk when they buzzed 

 about his head. A number of times^ too, I saw him spring 

 up and catch one in his beak and carry it to his little ones. 

 I think it quite probable that he may have exterminated the 

 whole colony in this way before he left, — at any rate I did 

 not notice them afterwards. 



