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as Aleppo. Said likewise to be in Barbary ; it inhabits the hill of 

 Gibraltar, among bushes, and loose rocks, and in the inclosed country 

 at all times, though rarely seen in the town. I have reason also to 

 think that it is a native of America, for I have received it from 

 Hudson's Bay, where it is called Chees, Chees, te, maw, tich, wa, 

 sue; have likewise seen a specimen from Georgia.* Mr. Abbot, 

 who furnished this, informs me, that it is common about Savannah, 

 there called the House Wren, frequenting old dead trees, lying on 

 the ground in swamps, and about plantations ; and that it is so 

 gentle, as to come into houses, to pick up the crumbs ; the egg 

 precisely like that of our species, it also builds the same kind of nest, 

 and often in outhouses. 



The Redbreast, and the Common, and Crested Wrens, seem to 

 have been held in more respect than most other birds, and have had 

 more familiar names applied to them ; the most common one given 

 to the first, has arisen from the red throat, f though several allusive 

 names may be observed. $ To the Common and Gold-crested Wrens, 

 in almost every nation, the epithet of Royalty is attached, || inde- 

 pendent of petty names in abundance. § 



Both the Redbreast, and the Wren too, are held by the lower 

 class in a kind of veneration, so as to be highly favourable to their 

 preservation as Species; and it must be a most wicked and mis- 

 chievous boy, who will not pay some sort of deference to a very trite 



* In this the tail appeared to be a trifle longer, than in the European one. 



f Das Rothkehlchen, Rostbrustchen, Rothele — by the Germans. Rouge-gorge, Gorge- 

 rouge, Rubienne, Rubiette, &c— French. Pettirosso, Petto-rosso— Italian. Pitirroxo— 

 Spanish. Ruddock, Redbreast, Robin Redbreast — English. 



J Consigliere (Counsellor), Frate Gavina (Friar Mumps) — Italian. 



|| Reatino, Re degli Uccelli — Italian. Reyezuelo — Spanish. Ave rei — Portugal, &c. 

 &c. ; and the Saxon, ppsenna, from whence our Wren is derived, is in signification not far 

 different. 



§ Thomas i giaerdet, Tommeliden — Denmark. Petermansmad, Muse broder — Norway. 

 And we the Jenny Wren, and Kitty Wren. Musabrouir, in the Ferroe Isles, meaning the 

 Mouse's Brother, because, like the mouse, it creeps through the chinks in the wind houses, 

 and feasts on the dried meat. — See Landt's Description of the Ferroe Islands. 



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