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NEST AND EGGS OF THE GOLDEN CROWNED 



WREN. 



PLATE LXVI. 



The Golden Crowned Wren makes her nest against 

 some mossy wall or ivy-twisted tree. The nest I now 

 describe was artfully hid in a close bunch of ivy, 

 which hung do^^'n from the side of an old hazle-tree, 

 about ten feet from the ground ; it is nearly of a glob- 

 ular figure, and was placed so as the mouth leaned a 

 little to the sun ; the outside is formed of soft green 

 moss, ^vo\ e and pletted together with wool, spider's 

 webs, and the white down which grows on the catkins 

 of the \vdllow-tree. The linincr consists of willow 

 down and a great number of small soft feathers. The 

 whole is a beautiful little structure, well suited to its 

 inhabitant. With the nest, I have also figured the 

 i\')' branch in which it "svas suspended. There were 

 eight eggs in this nest, of a kind of cream-coloured 

 bro^vn, and destitute of spots ; in size, not larger than 

 represented in the figure. 



