HOUSE WREN 



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HOUSE WREN. 



House Wren: Troglodytes acdon. 



Length 5 inches. 



Upper parts brown; wings and tail finely barred with 

 black. 



Under parts dull whitish. 



Resident from April 15 to Septend^er; winters in the 

 Southern States. 



If one wishes these merry httle birds around a 

 country house, he need only put up, out of the reach 

 of cats, a box or gourd with a hole in the side about 



