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only a small space back from the opening being left for 
the nest proper. This is made up of grasses, with a few 
feathers and hair or wool for lining. The full complement 
of eggs seems to be seven ; these are white, rather thickly 
spotted with reddish-brown and purplish, and measure 
about ‘64 x ‘49. 
Fresh eggs are to be met with, according to Gale, 
about the first two weeks in June, while Trippe believed 
that two or even three broods were raised in one season, 
and that the last was not hatched till late in July. 
Genus NANNUS. 
Closely resembling Troglodytes, but with a much shorter tail, which 
is less than three-quarters the length of the wing and beyond which 
the feet extend considerably. 
Several species in the colder parts of the Old and New Worlds. 
One species only in the United States. 
Winter-Wren. Nannus hiemalis. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 722—Colorado Records—Ridgway 73, p. 180 ; 
H, G. Smith 96, p. 76 ; Cooke, 97 pp. 121, 222. 
Description.—Adult—Above brown with rufescent tinge, stronger 
posteriorly ; back, wings and tail slightly barred with dusky and often 
with whitish as well ; the outer webs of the primaries with more distinct 
light and dark bars ; a light stripe above the eye ; below pale brown, 
becoming darker posteriorly, owing to the mottling and barring of 
dark and light browns ; iris brown, bill dusky, paler on the lower man- 
dible ; legs light brown. Length 3-55; wing 1-80; tail 1-25; culmen -38; 
tarsus -70. : 
The sexes are alike; young birds are essentially like the adults, 
but the barring of the upper-surface is less distinct or absent, and the 
eye-stripe is less noticeable. 
Distribution.—Eastern North America, breeding from Manitoba 
and Ontario south along the Alleghanies to North Carolina, wintering 
in the southern part of its breeding range, and south to Florida and the 
Gulf of Mexico. 
In Colorado the Winter-Wren is a rare bird, and has only been met 
with a very few times. It was first noticed by Ridgway, but on what 
authority I do not know. Cooke gives three records—thirty miles 
west of Fort Collins, in the mountains, at 8,000 feet, July 7th, 1896, 
C. P. Gillette; Estes Park, about 7,000 feet, the same year, Cooke ; 
