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lands of the interior, holding their own against the inclement winter with its cold and famine 

 rent hen the u.o.l interesting of the winter inhabitants of northern forests. Their odd self- 

 Insertion and seenung in.portance render then, noticeable and attractive wherever one goes. 



I ike its relatives^ a few of the more adventurous of this species also pay tlying ^^slts to the 

 se..sho\e whe for a short time they Hit about searching the crevices of the log houses, chmbmg 

 about the fences, and making themselves thoroughly at home for a short season and then betake 

 themselves to more suitable quarters again. 



TE0GL0DYTIDJ5. WRENS. 

 ANORTHURA ALASCENSIS (Baird) Coues. 



(13.) The Alaskan When. 



This sturdy representative of the common winter wren of the Eastern United States makes 

 its pIrlSlrou the foggy, storm-beaten Aleutian and Fur Seal Islands. H- - ^..f « 

 nclenent weather and the harsh, cheerless form assumed ^^^ "^t-'*' «"/ ' H ff^ 1 te n 

 ntlrplt ino. Wren nasses its life. All about snow-clad hills or rugged, rock-strewn cliffs and steep 

 inteiesting VN len pasbcs us uie. a ^^^__^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^p^^ 



mountain slopes rise against a cloud-hiddeu skj . Masses oi .->ieei _ 



.,„d ravines sendin- sheets of spray across the water and arivingall else to seek bheltei , yet tms 

 ;^ hJlI Is own o'k^some partly sheltered slope or grassy tiat, and if spring be at hand its dear 

 011(1 noKib o „ ; , , . . i^^ii i,i tiie storm as the hardy songster holds by a 



ryS^^-e^tu ^if;;tirb:;tnd ..th m ... wind, or perhaps from somejutting 



^'^The ravines are still bedded with snow in many places when he has ^^^-^^^ f ^^^ P-\°- 

 and is deep in the mysteries of family life. In autumn he ,s found sprightly as befoie but less 

 musiJal, a7hrti[;i aboiit the grassy flats and hilly .lopes, generally in pairs, so that it may be 



'" miTiis hai^iS Z lilll^ng winter I cannot say, but so brave a heart in so small a body, that 



of any wren in such a position. . a„:,,f pom-o-p Itsland laree 



Air Elliott tells ».« that .luring excei.ti»i.ally severe wmhirs »" S»"'''^«°'«» '!''',„ ^° 



,,,,,„bers„rftU birds ,.erisU. A few «,»„,, however, sutHee to br,„g tUe „umbe, „„ .0 ..a 



°''"llrt:.ri,,ol,.ti,,t.ehi«„r.o.tUisUraist.eraet,asas.^^^^ 

 which latter islands must be considered as the bu-ds' original habitat. 



