(546 BEWICKFS WREN. 



was placed in a niche of a waJl of the old stone barracks of Miami, and this was the 

 only nest uf the Florida Wren that I ever saw. 



TROGLODYTES BEWICK I!. 

 Sewicki's Wren 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Ch. Size, medium. Form, rather slender. Tail, larger than the wings. Color. Adult. Above, 

 dark reddish brown, paler on the rump and central tail feathers, and slightly tinged with gray, distinctly 

 banded everywhere with dusky. Beneath, whitish, tinged with plumbeous, becjming brown on flanks, which 

 are banded behind with dusky. Wings, and tail dark brown, the central feathers banded with dusky, the 

 outer with grayish white at tip. Iris, brown, bill, black, bluish at base of under mandible. Feet, brown. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Distinguished at once from all of our wrens by the white under parts but more particularly by the gray- 

 ish white bandings, to the tips of the outer tail feathers. Breeds throughout Eastern United States nurth 

 to New York, especially in the Atlantic States, but locally distributed more common in thu interior. Win- 

 ters in some of the Southern States but chiefly in the interior. 



DIMENSIONS. 

 Length, from 5.1U to 5.-KJ; stretch, li.ltoto 7.15; wing, •J.IO to l' L'.'.; tail, i-'.l."> to L'.:!.") ; bill, .02 to .:,■'> ; 

 tarsus, MS to .72. 



DESCRIPTION OF NESTSAND EGGS. 

 Nests, placed in deserted woodpeckers' holes, natural cavities in trees and roots, rocks and about build- 

 ings, composed of sticks, rootlets, grasses, etc., loosely arranged and lined with hair, downy feathers, and 

 other soft substances. Er.GS, from seven to nine in number, oval in form, white in color, speckled and dotted 

 with reddish brown of varying shades, and purple, usually more thickly around the larger end. Dimensions 

 .50 by .66 to .52 by .6S. 



HABITS. 

 Bewickii Wren is a rather rare inhabitant of the states along the Atlantic sea board, 

 but is sometimes locally common in the interior. In some habits it more nearly resembles 

 the Hou.se Wren than the Great Carolina Wi'en, but in song it agrees more nearly with 

 the latter named species. It builds its nest in holes and cavities of all descriptions, and 

 Mr. August Koch pointed out a nook in one of his buildings which had l)een occupied by 

 the same pair or their decendants for many years. These wrens make their appearance 

 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, late in May and depart tiie last week in August. 



TROGLODYTES AEDON. 



House Wren. 



Troglodytes acdon Vleillot, Orn. Am. Sept. II, 18' )7. :!-. 

 Troglddytes aniericanus Audubon, Orn. Biog. 11. Ifcio-l-, 452. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sr. Cii. I'Virin. not slender. Size, ipilte small. iSill, tapering, sli-litly cur\ed .-it the end, m-t nntehed, 

 shorter tli:iu the head. Sternum not st^-utly built; proportionately nirrower than in the preceding, hut with 

 the keel higher. Tingue, thin, horny and acuuiiuate, "ith the fnd, in a<lult specimens, liroken iuto irregii- 



