in some of our bleakest and most unalieltered districts ; we 

 saw it on some of the most sterile heaths of Shetland, the 

 only support for its nest being the bank of some mountain 

 gully, its only shelter the overhanging sod. 



Notwithstanding the number of eggs which the Wren has 

 been stated by some Ornitliologists to lay, I have never suc- 

 ceeded in finding more than eight, and seldom more than se- 

 ven in the same nest ; they are not usually so much spotted 

 as Fig. 3, and are often white, or nearly so. 



Ornithologists diflfer as to the lining of the nest of the 

 Wren, some maintaining that it is thickly lined with feathers, 

 whilst others deny that it has any in its composition. I have 

 found it both ways, but cannot, from recollection, say which 

 most frequently. 



