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if the old birds would feed them. This they did ; 

 he then brought the nest into the apartment ; and 

 " it is rather remarkable, that, although the female 

 seemed regardless of danger, from her affection to 

 the young, yet the male never once ventured 

 within the room." On the contrary, the female 

 would feed them at the table, or while he held the 

 nest in his hand. The visits of the female were 

 generally repeated in a minute and a half, or two 

 minutes, or about thirty-six times in an hour, 

 and that during sixteen houi's ca ery day. Each 

 young bii'd weighed about seventy-six gi*ains ; and 

 they ate, in four days, nearly their own weight of 

 food. These beautiful little birds may be reared 

 and managed as nightingales and redbreasts. 



Description and Plumage, 



The golden-crested wren is about three and a 

 half inches in length ; bill bluish-black ,• eyes, um- 

 ber-brown, or hazel-colour. The crown of the head 

 is uncommonly beautiful : On it the feathers form 

 a crest ; above each eye there is a line of velvet- 

 black, and, between the black lines, the feathers 

 are of a beautiful light Dutch orange-colour ; the 

 forehead, chin, and cheeks, are of a pale-yellowish 



