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WREN. 



Class II. 



11. Wren. Sylvia. Troglodytes. S. grisea, 



superciliis albidis, alis nigro 



cinereoque undulatis. Lath. 



Ind. orn. 547- id. Syn. iv. 



506. 

 Roytelet, Boeuf de Dieu, et 



Berichot. Belon av. 343. 

 Trilato, ols. 12. 

 Passer troglodytes. Gesner av. 



651. 

 Aldr. av. ii. 292. 

 Reatino. Olina, 6. 

 Wil. orn. 22g. 

 Bail Syn. av. 80. 

 Stresch ; Storschek. Scopoli, 



No. 239. 



Le Roitelet, Regulus. Brisson 



av. iii. 425. Hist. oTois. v. 



352. PL Enl. 651. f. 2. 

 Motacilla Troglodytes. Gm. 



Lin. 993. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 26l. 

 Nelle-Konge. Brunnick, 284. 

 Schneekoning, Konickerl, 



Zaunschlupfrel. Kram. 



378. 

 Schneekoenig (Snow king). 



Frisch, i. 24. 

 Br. Zool. 102. Arct. Zool. 



ii. 110. 



J. HE wren may be placed among the finest of 

 our singing birds. It continues its song through- 

 out the winter, excepting during the frosts. It 

 makes its nest in a very curious manner, of an 

 oval shape, very deep, with a small hole in the 

 middle for ingress and egress : the external ma- 

 terial is moss, within it is lined with hair and 

 feathers. It lays from ten to eighteen eggs, 

 and often brings up as many young; and, as 

 Mr. Ray observes, it may be ranked among 

 those daily miracles we take no notice of, that 

 it should feed such a number without passing 

 over one, and that too in utter darkness. 



