330 IXSECTIVOILE. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT (Antlms Ricliardi) 

 Has been found in England. It has the tarsi and the hind 



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claw long, and the bill strong. Upper part brown with 

 pale edges ; under part white. 



WRENS. 



The birds popularly called wrens have so few appearances 

 in common, that they can hardly be described as a tribe, and 

 therefore they cannot be classed according to their structure. 

 But, leaving out a few migrants which are sometimes called 

 wrens, and including the red -breast, to which the name 

 "wren" is never given, a popular tribe, founded on habits, 

 though not in appearance, might be instituted and described. 

 It is not our intention to interfere with names or with classes, 

 but merely to place in juxtaposition such birds as have their 

 habits so much alike, that the description of the one may hi 

 part serve for the other, and thus save repetition. 



The birds which we would include in this popular section, 

 are the red-breast, the common wren, the q olden-crested irmi, 

 and the fiery-crested wren, more recently added to the British 

 Fauna. We do not call them wrens, or have the slightest 

 wish that anybody should call them so, but there is a family 

 likeness among them, as well as a similarity in some of their 

 leading habits ; and, which is not a little remarkable, these 

 are more striking between the common wren and the red- 

 breast, than between the common wren and those other 

 birds that are called wrens. So much so, indeed, that popular 

 opinion, which in such cases is always founded upon observa- 

 tion habitual and without bias has " time out of mind " 

 associated Robin Redbreast and Kitty Wren as husband and 

 "wife. 



They are both resident even in the very coldest parts of 

 the country; they both breed in retirement, for though the 



