WREN. 59 
states that it nests in the Chester Cemetery, as well as 
in Eaton Park, where it is not uncommon. It has 
also been reported to him as occurring at Mollington 
Hall, Carden, Little Budworth, and Malpas, where the 
Rev. C. Wolley-Dod finds it abundant all the year 
round at Edge Hall 
Elsewhere in the county the bird is very rare. 
Brockholes does not include it in his Wirral list, and 
it is unknown on the Eastern Hills. In the Plain, 
despite the fact that some of the parks contain much 
old timber, it is unaccountably rare, and we have only 
seen two examples—one obtained in winter at Norley 
on the border of Delamere Forest, and one shot some 
years ago at Astle by Colonel Dixon, which is now 
in his collection. The late C. S. Gregson is cited by 
A. G. More as his authority for the statement that the 
Nuthatch is numerous in Dunhorn (Dunham) Park ;? 
but although we have for many years constantly fre- 
quented the Park at all seasons, we have never met 
with the bird. 
FAMILY TROGLODYTID. 
WREN. 
TROGLODYTES PARVULUS, K. L. Koch. 
Jenny Wren, Dicky Pug. 
The Wren is an abundant resident in every part of 
the county, being met with as frequently in the bare 
cloughs among the Hills as on the wooded Plain. 
The domed nest is built in a variety of situations; 
often in a thorn hedge, amongst the twigs growing 
from the trunk of an oak, or beneath the bank of a 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 292. 
2 Tbis, series 11., vol. i., 1865, p. 138. 
