Is a cheerful, industrious little creature, with charming confidence in mankind. He also 

 will esteem it a persistent vocalist, with a trilling, gushing song of much sweetness and 

 considerable length. -And he will be right, if he limits the bird's possession of these good 

 qualities to the breeding season. But this Wren is a bird of a dual character. While its 

 household cares are upon it, the admirable traits predominate ; but when the young have 

 been sent forth, it lays aside the familiarity which had so endeared it to us, withdraws to 

 some remote, barren and inaccessible spot, where, songless, secluded and aloof, wholly 

 transformed in demeanor, it lurks among the tangled shrubbery until the time of its final 

 departure. 



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