bird will occasion db 
quia) trick, dm 
come from a d 
as though the 
varying pres mi 
• to sot to voce, so t 
i it will move cr< 
i" this musical ca 
u'n head, 
evidence availabh 
Kit tl 
iploy a ventrilo- 
song appears to 
a and diminuendo, 
were submitted to 
thf. 
nest. Ids! 
publishes 
may on.lv 
proximity of the 
f.d bird posts himself near the sitting female and 
k .happiness in musical numbers. But again, he 
;•> congratulate himself upon the successful com- 
coy, and the case is hopeless for the nonce. 
: • ; Wrens avail themselves of cubby holes and 
roots or fallen logs, and in fire-holes of half-burned 
o ration is one of the crevices which occur in a 
falls and splits open. Or the nest may be found 
. caymg log. or deeply bedded in a mossy bank, 
r ams of Santa Cruz County the Winter Wrens have 
the stream-bed, and they stick very closely to it. 
and rock-walls are quite as acceptable as an up¬ 
on; and most of the nests are actually Over running 
Heeled has a wide entrance, this is walled up by 
dure an inch and a 
'per. In default of 
any such shelter, birds have been known to <vmst oho their nests at the 
Rock Wren 
un 
th 
Dark ; 
ecoast 
T! 0*1 Op 
n 
and only a smooth round 
niarter in diameter is left to admit to the 
at 
it os a foot 
mon 
rushed to t 
little abovi 
About % life size 
'n >uch case, the nest is 
From a water-color painting by Major Allan Brooks 
hole in the side 
in W d;- materials u.-ed are substantially the same, chiefly 
co rn i\-(; d- an abundance of fir or redwood twigs shot through 
its walls and foundations. 'Phis shell is heavily lined with eery fine 
mu-M-, no. mangled with rabbit fur. deyr hair or other soft substances; 
while the inner lining is almost invariably of feathers. 
"i >i. ’•>' :wd,-, or decoys, are the favorite diversion of this inde¬ 
fatigable bub, dm, as with the restless activities of four-year-old 
children, one - whs to think of the prodigious waste of energies entailed. 
!d-< .lb--,rh-inal we ire of this quaint in-r’act, so prevalent among the 
W - - - ,,o.ijd ,-i!i m be the de.~ire to deceive and discourage enemies, 
D ■: b. ase .■; the Winter Wren one i- led t-« suspect that the hard- 
: ing hii-ixind : s trying to meet a pen .d c.h tilenge to occupy all 
aw,.‘able sites--a miser hoarding oppommhi..-. 
\ to ■■■"■> of u.tmc Wren-.- just out •>* w is a cunning sight. 
Piio aw.! i -v aom • , • usd Mi m ,w i ■ ■ : ‘Ct of the brood 
