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and cuneiform, the two middle feathers ash-colour, barred on each 

 margin with black dots ; the others the same, but from the middle 

 to the end black, with an ash-coloured tip ; the two outer ones barred 

 black and white from the middle to the end; legs dull yellow. In 

 the female the wing coverts have no white, as in the male. 



Inhabits the country about Georgia, frequents old logs and trees 

 on the ground, and thickets in the woods; the nest built the begin- 

 ning of May, in a hollow tree, in the root, or stump, made of dead 

 leaves, and pine straw without, and lined with pine straw, mixed 

 with hair ; the egg rufous white, with numerous ferruginous specks, 

 growing confluent, and forming a kind of zone round the larger end. 

 In this, as well as the Winter Wren, if the feathers of the lower part 

 of the back are parted with the hand, white spots appear. 



270.— GREAT WREN. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill stout, three quarters of an inch long, 

 a trifle bent; top of the head, and sides, including the eye, the neck 

 behind, back, and wings, fine chestnut brown, more tawny on the 

 rump, and marked with a few obsolete pale spots ; from the nostrils 

 a pale streak, with a mixture of black, passes through the eye, and 

 finishes on each side a little below the nape ; on the jaw a patch of 

 pale grey, a little mottled ; chin plain pale grey ; from thence to the 

 vent dirty pale buff-colour, paler on the breast ; under tail coverts 

 barred dark brown and white; the quills barred as in the Common 

 Wren ; the tail two inches long, rather rounded in shape, the outer 

 feathers being shorter than the middle, all of them barred as the 

 quills; on all. the wing coverts a minute pale speck at the tip ; legs 

 pale brown. 



Inhabits Georgia : described from a specimen in the Collection of 



Mr. Francillon ; is called there the Great Wren, and although it 



seems to differ in some respects, may probably be allied to the last. 



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