animated and gushing. Lives about buildings or 

 beside woods or in orchards — in the neighborhood 

 of hollow trees, posts, or near a porch or bird- 

 house in which the nest is concealed. 



722. Winter Wren — N annus hiemalis hiemalis. 



Length 4 inches. 



Tail very short and abruptly tilted up; upper- 

 parts dark cinnamon-brown; underparts cinna- 

 mon-buff; flanks and belly barred with black; 

 wings and tail barred; a pale line over eye. 



A pert little brown bird found in the woods from 

 autumn till spring. His dark brown back, very 

 short tail pointing staight upward or even inclined 

 towards the back of his head will identify him, 

 especially in his favorite haunts, the dark woods, 

 where he loves to skulk among brush heaps and 

 other tangles. 



725. Long-billed Marsh Wren — Telmatodytes 

 palustris palustris. 



Length 5 inches. 



Back black, broadly streaked with white; a white 

 line over eye; below white, sides and flanks pale 

 cinnamon-brown; crown olive-brown, with a black 

 border on side. 



A little brown bird that plays hide and seek 

 among the cattails and reeds where its nest is built. 

 It has a warbling song and occasionally a song- 

 flight which carries it on trembling wings a few 

 yards above the reeds. It will often come within 

 a few feet of you, but it persistently bobs and 

 skulks and fusses. 



748. Golden-crowned Kinglet — Regulus satra- 

 pa satrapa. 



Length 4.% inches. (See cut, page 43.) 

 Male — Center of crown bright reddish orange, 

 bordered by yellow and black; a whitish line over 

 eye; upper parts olive-green, wings and tail black- 

 ish, margined with olive-green; underparts soiled 



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