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line grains of the same tint, all over ; has two broods in a season ; 

 feeds chiefly on insects and caterpillars. The female said to be much 

 like the male. 



Inhabits all the United States of America. 



272.— SAVANNAH WREN. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill five-eighths of an inch 

 long, rather stout, curved, and pale ; plumage in general above deep 

 brown, with undulated, transverse, bars of darker brown ; beneath 

 very pale brown, mixed with broken, undulated darker bars ; the 

 middle of the belly nearly white ; quills brown, barred with paler, 

 ends plain ; tail one inch and a half long, somewhat rounded, and 

 barred as the quills ; legs pale brown. The female much the same, 

 but the colours less bright. 



Inhabits Savannah, in Georgia, sent by Mr. Abbot from thence, 

 by the name of the Least Wren. 



273.-GOLD-NAPED WREN. 



Sylvia elala, Ind. Orn. ii. 529. 



Le Roitelet mesange, Buf. v. 375. 



Le Toupet ordinaire, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 1G0. 



Mesange huppee de Cayenne, PL enl. 708. 2. Gen. Syn. iv. 510. A. 



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



SMALLER than the European Crested Wren; and the bill 

 shorter and smaller ; upper parts of the body brownish green, in- 

 clined to brown on the head ; across the back part of the head, a 

 bar of jonquil yellow, and rather full of feathers, as is the whole 

 head, so as to be erected as a crest ; wings and tail dusky green ; 

 across the first two pale bars; the second quills have pale edges, and 

 the tail, except the two middle feathers, tipped with dusky white ; 



