Birds of Oregon and Washington 8 5 



a wide area, and that the Pacific coast cannot 



claim them as it may the Willow Goldfinch. 



Description. — just like the Willow Goldfinch, ex- 

 cept that the back and ear-coverts are plain olive-green, 

 while the Willow Goldfinch is all lemon-color where there 

 is no black or white. 



Summer resident. 



THE WRENS. 



Perhaps no birds are more bewitching in their 

 make-up and manner than these little creatures 

 that are very common in certain wide parts of 

 the North Pacific States. They are everywhere 

 within these limits. 



There are five varieties described here. The 

 first three of these look, to the superficial ob- 

 server, so much alike that care must be taken 

 to distinguish them. They all have the same 

 general form, and, in different shades, the same 

 color, brown. The body and tail of each is 

 barred or speckled with dusky cross-marks. 



The other two are altogether unlike, and are 

 so different from the three which so much re- 

 semble one another, that a person is not likely 

 to make a mistake in their identification. 



