202 WARBLER. 



Found in the neighbourhood of the River Plata, in South 

 America, about Guayra in Paraguay, and observed to have all the 

 manners of our European Species ; builds often in the holes of trees, 

 and under the eaves of houses ; lays four or five white eggs, rufous 

 at the large end, and many dots of the same in other parts. 



A. — A similar one sent from Savannah, in Georgia, by Mr. 

 Abbot, of the size of a Common Wren, but the tail longer, and 

 somewhat cuneiform ; length four inches, and six and a quarter in 

 extent ; general colour reddish brown, marked above with dusky 

 spots; over the eye a slender black streak, communicating with a 

 large oval black patch behind the eye, in which are a few streaks 

 of white ; at the lower part of the neck behind, and beginning of 

 the back, black, marked in a similar manner with longitudinal streaks 

 of white; quills and tail red brown, barred with darker; ends of the 

 quills dusky; all the under parts of the body yellowish white, 

 inclining to buff on the sides, thighs, and vent; bill and legs pale. 

 The female differs in being paler. 



Inhabits Georgia, frequenting briars and thickets in the marshes, 

 and rice fields, but far from common ; and called the Marsh Wren. 



269.— BARRED-TAIL WREN. 



Certhia Carolina, Great Carolina Wren, Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 12. f. 5. 

 Troglodyte de la Louisiane, Buf. v. p. 361. 

 Roitelet de la Louisiane, PL enl. 730. f. 1. 

 Wren, Gen. Syn. iv. 507. 143. Var. B. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill a trifle bent, and pale dusky in 

 colour; irides hazel ; plumage above reddish brown, beneath dusky 

 white ; over the eye a white streak, reaching some way down the 

 neck on each side ; back and wing coverts plain, with some white 

 on the latter ; quills dusky and clay-colour in bars ; tail pretty long, 



