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and, wishing to observe its manners, designed to keep it 
for a few dajs in a large wire cage. Accordingly we intro¬ 
duced the little creature in at the door ; it had scarcely 
released itself from our hand, when we heard it strike itself 
against a window at the other end of the room. Hardly believ¬ 
ing that it could so readily have escaped through the wires of 
the cage, we repeated the experiment : the result was the 
same ; and we found that this little creature could fly through 
a cage whose wires were placed at the distance of only five 
lines, or little more than the third of an inch from one another, 
without appearing to be even obstructed by them. 
The egg of the Wren is figured 75 in the plate.' 
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