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only a small space back from the opening being left for 

 the nest proper. This is made up of grasses, with a few 

 feathers and hair or wool for lining. The full complement 

 of eggs seems to be seven ; these are white, rather thickly 

 spotted with reddish-broAvn and purplish, and measure 

 about -64 X -49. 



Fresh eggs are to be met with, according to Gale, 

 about the first two weeks in June, while Trippe believed 

 that two or even three broods were raised in one season, 

 and that the last was not hatched till late in July. 



Genus NANNUS. 



Closely resembling Troglodytes, but with a much shorter tail, which 

 is less than three-quarters the length of the wing and beyond which 

 the feet extend considerably. 



Several species in the colder parts of the Old and New Worlds. 

 One species only in the United States. 



Winter-Wren. Nannus hiemalis. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 722— Colorado Records— Ridgway 73, p. 180 ; 

 H. G. Smith 96, p. 76 ; Cooke, 97 pp. 121, 222. 



Description. — Adult — Above brown with rufescent tinge, stronger 

 posteriorly ; back, wings and tail slightly barred with dusky and often 

 with whitish as well ; the outer webs of the primaries with more distinct 

 light and dark bars ; a light stripe above the eye ; below pale brown, 

 becoming darker posteriorly, owing to the mottling and barring of 

 dark and light browns ; iris brown, bill dusky, paler on the lower man- 

 dible ; legs light brown. Length 3 -55 ; wing 1 -80 ; tail 1 -25 ; culmen -38 ; 

 tarsus -70. 



The sexes are alike ; young birds are essentially like the adults, 

 but the barring of the upper-surface is less distinct or absent, and the 

 eye-stripe is less noticeable. 



Distribution. — Eastern North America, breeding frona Manitoba 

 and Ontario south along the Alleghanies to North Carolina, wintering 

 in the southern part of its breeding range, and south to Florida and the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



In Colorado the Winter- Wren is a rare bird, and has only been met 

 with a very few times. It was first noticed by Ridgway, but on what 

 authority I do not know. Cooke gives three records — thirty miles 

 west of Fort Collins, in the mountains, at 8,000 feet, July 7th, 1896, 

 C. P. Gillette ; Estes Park, about 7,000 feet, the same year, Cooke ; 



