WINTER WREN 



April 8, i8gy 



(Chicago Heights) 



Fall, 1897 

 April iy, i8g8 



(Lake Forest) 



I GOT a fine study of this wren on my 

 first sight of him. He stayed in a hol- 

 low of the wood as long as I wanted to 

 look at him, and frisked about not ten 

 feet away from me, peering out at me every 

 now and then, but otherwise quite uncon- 

 cerned. 



April, i8q8. Heard a fragment of its 

 song, too little to tell much about it, and he 

 would not repeat it. 



October 8, 1900. One bobbed at me 

 from a nearby branch most vigorously, 

 and scolded me well. He chirped a great 

 deal, two chirps uttered in quick succession, 

 the last a note higher than the first, quite 

 a distinctive, double sort of chirp. His 

 scolding, a small chatter, reminds me of 

 the ruby crowned Kinglet's. 



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