WRENS. 
generally built of fine twigs and lined with dried grasses or 
other soft material, is commonly located in the hole of some 
old apple tree or in the crannies or knot holes preferably of 
an old house. Egg pale pinkish buff, brown-speckled or 
usually with a wreath at the larger end. 
No song could be more spontaneous and rollicking than 
that of the House Wren, though it lacks a distinct and full 
tone, that defect is more than atoned for by irrepressible 
spirit; beginning sotto voce with an inexplicable jumble of 
unmusical grating sounds, it proceeds with a series of rapid 
trills from a high to a considerably lower register without 
pause or slackening of speed. Here are three records taken 
in different localities, Millington, N. J., Englewood, N. J., 
and Blair, N. H., each in the order named: 
There is practically no difference in the rhythmic form, 
no great variation in the pitch, and only slight variation in 
melodic structure, as my notations very plainly show. 
However, aside from musical form of the song it possesses 
a rapturous abandon which at once captures the heart of 
the listener just as his eyes would be entranced by the sight 
of a beautiful cascade in a mountain glen. The jubilant 
music drops like silvery spray; the songster should have 
been named Minnehaha—Laughing Water! 
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