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fell on the long expectant ear, and my friend, no longer 
doubting, listened in amazement and delight. This 
glen, always charming, will henceforth have a new 
attraction, for unless prevented by some mishap, the 
bird will be sure to return to this locality, as the wrens 
are possessed with feelings of strong local attachment. 
The golden-crowned wrens (fegulus satrapa) and the 
ruby-crowned (22. calendulus), although called wrens, 
belong to the sylvidz family, only sparingly represented 
in the State, but abundant in the old world, where they 
have entered much into the quaint legendary literature 
in some of the countries. 
The two common species, generally called kinglets, 
are very small creatures, weighing only the fraction of 
an ounce each, and, like their cousins, they are bright, 
active and quite musical. His plumage is rich and 
marked, olive above, lighter underneath, wings well 
barred with white and edged with yellow. The bill 
and feet are dark. The two species resemble each other 
very closely, except the markings on the head, from 
which they derive their names. 
The ruby-crowned has a patch of scarlet on the head, 
sometimes almost concealed by other feathers. 
The golden:crowned has a bright scarlet patch 
bounded by yellow, giving the pretty creature a jaunty 
military air. 
During the migrations the two species are very 
abundant here; they come early, generally before the 
leaves start to open, and often remain several days, a 
few even spending the summer here in favored woods; 
