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EUROPEAN WREN. 

 (Troglodytes Europaeus.) 



TR. griseus, alls nigro cinereoque undulatis. 



Grey Wren, with the wings undulated with black and grey. 



Motacilla Troglodytes. Lin. Syst. Nat. i. 337. 46. Lin. Faun. 



Suec. I6l.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 993. 

 Sylvia Troglodytes. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 547 . *48. 

 Troglodytes. Ray. Syn. 80. A. ll.Wils. 164. 42. 

 Regulus. Briss. Orn. 3. 425. 24. 

 Troglodytes, Roitelet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 352. pi. 16. f. 



1 Buff. PI. Enl. 651. f. l.Buf. Hist. Prov. 1. 510. 



Wren. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 154. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 322. 



Albin. Birds. 1. pi. 53. B. Hayes. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 111. 



Wale. Syn. 2. 242. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 506. 143. Bewick. 



Brit. Birds. 1. 227. Mont. Orn. -Diet. 2. 

 Troglodytes Europseus. Leach. 



LENGTH four inches and a quarter : beak dusky 

 brown, and nearly straight : irides dark hazel : 

 the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, deep 

 reddish brown, obscurely marked with transverse 

 dusky lines : the eyebrows pale-coloured : the 

 quills and tail dusky brown, the latter crossed with 

 undulated dusky black lines, the former spotted 

 with light brown : the plumage beneath light 

 rufous brown, the sides and thighs with darker 

 lines : the under tail-coverts spotted with dusky 

 and white : legs pale brown. 



This bird is found throughout Europe, and, 

 like the Gold-crest, defies the severest winters, 

 approaching, during that season, the habitations 

 of man : it commences building its nest very early 



