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Maurice Warbler, Lath. M. Maurifiana, Gml. Enl. 

 705. 1. Le Figuier Bleu, Buff. 



Above blue-gray, beneath white ; bill blackish ; quills 

 and tail black, white-edged. Isle of France. 



Le Plastron Noir, Vail. 123. 1 et2. 

 A black collar of crescented form at the bottom of the 

 neck, space between this and throat white ; above 

 olive-gray, whitish-yellow beneath ; female without 

 collar. South Africa, 



The Troolodites, Cuv. 



do not differ from the fig-eaters but in having the 

 beak still more slender and slightly arched. 



Divided into two sections, the first, or True Wrens, 

 have the bill slender at the base, the hind toe equal to 

 the inner, the spurious feather moderate. 



We have but one in Europe. 



The Common IVren, (M. Troglodytes, L,) Enl. 651,2. 

 named in many places Roitelet. 



Brown, radiated crosswise with blackish ; with some 

 whitish on the throat and edge of the wing ; the tail 

 rather short and elevated. It nestles on the ground, 

 and sings agreeably even in the depth of winter. 



This is the Troglodytes Europeus, Stephans. Trog. 

 Hy emails, Vieil. The Winter Wren of Wilson, A. O, 

 t, 8. f, 6. 

 The Brown Warbler ? Brown Illust. t. 18. House 



Wren, Sylvia Domestica, Wilson, A. O, t. 8, f 3. 



Sylvia Furva, Lath. ? Troglodytes CEdon. Vieil, 

 Brown banded with black ; beneath dull grayish, obso- 

 lately banded ; tail long, rounded. North America. 



