378 
YELLOW WREN. Gisasir 
151.YELLOw Chofti, ou Chanteur. Below. Schmittl. Kram. 378. 
DESCRIP, 
aU. 344. Le Pouillot, ou chantre. Afi- 
Trochilus. Gefner av. 726. lus. Briffoz av. Ill. 479. 
Afilus. Aldr. av. UH. 293. Motacilla trochilus. Lin. ff. 
Little yellowifh Bird, Wil, 338. Scopes, No. 238. 
orn. 228. | Faun. Suec. fp. 264. 
Raii fyn. av. 80. Spurre-Konge, | Fager-Fiis. 
Edw. av. 278. Bre 26Ges 
Schnee Rienig (Snow king). Sr. Zool. 101. plate S. f. 2. 
Frifch, 1. 24. ei vi ee, Ta . ee ay 
PRAHE yellow wren frequents large moift 
woods, and places where willow trees a- 
bound from which it takes one of its names. 
Its weight is about two drams. ‘The color of the 
whole upper part of the body is a dufky green: 
the wings and tail are brown, edged with yellow- 
ifh green: above each eye is a yellowifh ftroke, 
the breaft, belly, and thighs vary in their color in 
different birds; in fome are of a bright yellow, in 
others it fades almoft into white. 
It builds in hollows in the fides of ditches, mak- 
ing its neft in the form of an egg; with a large 
hole at the top, as an entrance: the outfide is com- 
pofed of mofs and hay, the infide lined with foft fea- 
thers. It lays commonly feven white eges, marked 
with numerous {mall ruft colored {pots. It has alow 
plaintive note; and is perpetually creeping up and 
down the bodies and boughs of trees. 
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