204 



WARBLER. 



271.— BROWN WREN. 



Sylvia furva, Ind. Orn. ii. 548. 



Motacilla furva, Gm. Lin. i. 994. 



Troglodytes Aedon, Vieill. Am. ii. p. 52. p. 107 ? 



Roitelet de Surinam, Ferm. Sarin, ii. 201 ? 



Bee-fin, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxviii. 



House Wren, Amer. Orn. i. pi. 8. f. 3. 



Brown Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 508. Brown, III. 68. pi. 18. Shaw's Zool. x. 764. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an inch 

 long, yellowish brown, and a trifle bent; the general colour of the 

 plumage fine red brown ; under parts rufous white, deeper towards 

 the vent; chin white; back, wings, and tail marked with numerous 

 dusky bars; legs yellow brown. 



In the collection of the late Gen. Davies was one answering to 

 the above description ; size the same; all the upper parts reddish 

 brown, crossed with lines as in our Common Wren ; but the bars on 

 the second wing coverts broader, and those of the quills and tail more 

 numerous; all the parts beneath, from the chin to vent, dusky white, 

 crossed with obsolete, numerous, dusky lines; legs yellow. This was 

 brought from America. And I observed one in the collection of Mr. 

 Francillon, in which the feathers on the rump had each a white spot 

 at the end, but not visible unless the feathers were separated ; tail 

 rounded, and crossed with fifteen or sixteen dusky bars. If we 

 conclude it to be the bird mentioned by M. Ferrain, it is found at 

 Surinam. Mr. Wilson calls it the House Wren, and says, it arrives 

 in Pennsylvania the middle of April, and departs in September. 

 Makes the nest the 8th or 10th of May, under the eaves of houses, 

 or in a hole of a decaying Cherry Tree, &c. but frequently in a box, 

 fixed on the top of a pole, placed for the purpose, in the garden ; the 

 nest composed of short and crooked twigs, lined with fine dried stalks 

 of grass, and an inner layer of feathers ; the eggs six or seven, 

 sometimes as far as nine, purplish flesh-colour, with innumerable 



