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be remembered, are only the fouudation of a nest, as it were ; 

 their use in places where there is no real occasion for sncli a 

 mass of trash is evidently the remaining trace of primitive 

 habits. Inside this pile of material, there is a compact cup like 

 nest proper, of various fine soft vegetable and animal sub- 

 stances. The birds are extremly prolific, ordinarily laying six 

 or eight eggs; and they will continue to deposit more if the 

 nest be robbed — sometimes to the number of three or four 

 full clutches. The eggs themselves are too well known to 

 require description. As to the sites of the nest, it is almost 

 impossible to speak in specific terms. The old hat Audubon 

 drew has become historic; the sleeve or pocket of a coat hung 

 up in an'outiionse — a box in a chaise from which the birds 

 were often ejected, and to which they as often returned — boxes, 

 jars, or gourds set up for Martins — skull of an ox or horse — 

 nest of aTiotlier bird — are among the odd places the birds 

 have been known to fancy. lu the VVest, favorite locations 

 for Parknian's Wren are a rift in an old stump or log, or the 

 crevice between ajstrip of partially detached bark and the trunk 

 of a tree — places which give full scope for its inveterate liking 

 to fill up a canity to an unlimited extent and then barricade 

 the entrance. 



"Winter Wren 



Anortliura troglodytes hyemalis 



HotacHIa trogloAytfS,pa.nIy, of Eome early autliorg. 



Sj-lV ia troglodytes, irUa. AG. i. 1808, 139, pi. 8. I. e.—Bp. Jonrn. Phila. Acad. iv. 18«, 187.— 

 Haym. Pr. Phila. Acad. viii. 18.i6, 288. 



Anortbura troslodytes, Coues, Key, 1872, 87, f. 30. 



Troglodytes hyemalla, ricill. "N. D. d'H. N. xxxiv. 18l9, .'514"; "EM. ii. 182:i, 470".— s.^ 

 R. PBA. ii. 1831, 318.— Bp. CGL. 1838, U.—Aud. OB. iv. 1838, 4.30, pi. 360; Syn. 1839, 

 76; BA. 11. 1811, 128, pi. Vi\.—XiiU. Man. 1. 2d ed. 1840, 481.— Gir. BLI. 1844, 72 —Bp. 

 CA. i. 1850, 222.— ffoy, Pr. Phila. Acad, vi 1853, 312.- «Md, ibid. 399.— TAorops. Ver- 

 mont, 1853, m.—Kenuir.. Tr. Ul. Agric. Soc. 1. 18.=i5, 583— ProWra, ibid, 603.— Sd. PZS. 

 1856, 290 (El Jacale, Mexico).- ifneef Pr. Boat. Soc. yi. 1857, iXi.— Maxim. J. f. O. 1858, 

 \09.— Willis, Smiths. Ri^p. for 1858, 1859, 282 (Nova Scotia).— XoTit. Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 

 .1859, 191 (Port Tejoo, Cal.).— Set Cat. AB. 1860, 23.— 0. 4-5. NH WT. 1860, 191.— 

 Wlualon, Ohio Agric. Rep. I8611, 365, no. Mi.— Bam. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 437.— 

 BoiiTitn. Pr. BoHt. Soc. \x. 1802, m.-Vvrr. ibid. 138.— f'err. Pr. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 149.— 

 Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, Hi.— Hay, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 438.— DrMS. Ibis, 2d. ser. i. 

 1865, 485 (San Antonio, Texas). — iaior. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866, 283.— Mc/hor. Pr. 

 E-B. Inst. V. 1886, Sa.— Brown, liji-, 2d. ser. iv, 1868, 421 (Vancouver).— .4Ken, " .Mem. 

 Bo»t. Soc. 1. 1868, 494".— rurnJ. B. E Pa. 186a, 27; Phila. ed. iO.— Ooop. Am. Nat. iii. 

 1869, 74, ys.-Ooop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 73, fig.— Abbolt, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 543, MS.-Trippe, 

 Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, llS.-Afayn. Pr. Best. Soc. xiv. 1872, 360; B. Pla. 1873, 40.— 

 Trippe, Am. Nat. vi. 1872, iT.—Siwa, B.Kuns. 187.1, 6.— Breto. Pr. Bost.Soc.xvii. 1875, 439. 



Troglodytes btemaUs, Pcabody, -Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 316. 



