NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



THE COMMON WREN. 



EVERYBODY knows and 

 loves the wee brown 

 Wren with its active, 

 pert ways and 

 cheerful rat- 

 tling song, which 

 is heard nearly 

 the whole of the 

 year round. 



" Jenny " or 

 " Kitty " Wren, 

 as the bird is 

 often called, is to be met with 

 almost everywhere by sea-shore and 

 riverside, in the cultivated garden and 

 on the barren waste, along the plain and 

 on the mountain side, in thick woods 

 and treeless deserts where there is little 

 else than rocks for it to alight upon. 

 Whether the sun be shining, flowers 

 blooming, and food plentiful, or the 

 ground be wreathed in a thick blanket 

 of snow and the world a picture of deso- 

 lation and a place of hunger, the little 

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