CAROLINA WREN 



April 30, 18Q4 

 (Elmhurst) 



SAW a pair feeding in the Sturges 

 garden, mostly on the ground, but they 

 frequently flew into a tree, when the male 

 would throw back his head and give a 

 sweet, twittering wren song, not nearly so 

 exultant or gushing as the house wren's. 

 He sang this song many times and did 

 nothing else. These birds appear quite 

 unlike the other wrens, being larger, and 

 the rusty yellow under parts, the long dark 

 streak over the eye, and the rump much 

 brighter than the rest of the back (the one 

 I saw looked almost greenish red), dis- 

 tinguish it from the house wren or Bewick's 

 wren. These birds when on the ground 

 would run very fast, and every now and 

 then would flirt up into the air with a regu- 

 lar redstart rush and tumble. 



May 3rd. Have seen them again. The 

 male sang as before, nothing else. 



Spring, i8gg and igoo. Saw and heard 

 this bird frequently in Virginia and North 

 Carolina. Do not feel sure of it always 



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