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. thrusting his body beneath the leaves, and I doubt not found the place 

 very comfortable. 



They usually raise two, sometimes three broods in a season. The 

 young soon come out from the nest, and in a few days after creep and hop 

 about with as much nimbleness as the old ones. Their plumage under- 

 goes no change, merely becoming firmer in the colouring. 



Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes. It is, 

 notwithstanding, one of the most common birds which we have as resi- 

 dent in Louisiana. They ascend along the shores of the Mississippi as 

 high as the Missouri River, and along the Ohio nearly to Pittsburg, al- 

 though they do not occvu: in great numbers in the neighbourhood of that 

 city. They are common in Georgia, the Carohnas, Kentucky, Ohio and 

 Indiana. A few are to be seen along the Atlantic shores as far as Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey. In the latter State I have found its nest, near 

 a swamp, a few miles from Philadelphia. I never observed them farther 

 to the eastward. 



The Dwarf Buck-eye, on a blossomed twig of which you observe a 

 pair of Great CaroUna Wrens, is by nature as well as name a low shrub. 

 It grows near swampy ground in great abundance. Its flowers, which 

 are scentless, are much resorted to by the Humming Birds, on their first 

 arrival, as they appear at a very early season. The wood resembles that 

 of the Common Horse-chestnut, and its fruit is nearly the same in form 

 and colour, but much smaller. I know of no valuable property possessed 

 by this beautiful shrub. 



Troglodytes ludovicianus, Ch. Bonaparte, Synops. of Birds of the United States, 



p. 93. 

 Sylvia ludoviciana, Lath. Ind. Ornith, vol. ii. p. 548. 

 Gheat Carolika When, Certhia caroliniana, Wils. Amer. Omith. vol. ii. 



p. 61, PL 12. fig. 5. 



Adult Male. Plate LXXVIII. Fig. 1. 



BiU nearly as long as the head, subulato-conical, slightly arched, 

 compressed towards the tip ; upper mandible with the sides convex to- 

 wards the end, concave at the base, the edges acute and overlapping ; 

 under mandible with the back and sides convex. Nostrils oblong, 

 straight, basal, with a cartilaginous lid above, open and bare. Head ob- 

 long, neck of ordinary size, body ovate. Legs of orchnary length ; tar- 



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