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ZOOLOGY 



spread into North America and northern Europe. Our house 

 wren, which is a near relative of the European house wren, 

 is an active httle Ijrown Ijird, with a sharply bent-up tail.' In 

 this same familv belong the mocking-l:)irds, the centre of whose 



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ys2. 



■ Alar^-laiiit >i'lli>\vthl-oat iGcil/ilypis trichas). 



distribution is Central America, the AA'est Indies, and the south- 

 ern United States. The large brown thrasher and the catbird 

 are familiar over the country. The mocking-bird does not 



1 Fig. .3S.3. 



