204 ornithologist's text-book. ivy wren. 



Art. IV. Habits of the Ivy Wren ( Anorthura 

 troglodytes, Morris).* 



Within thy warm and mossy cell, 



Where scarce 'twould seem thyself could dwell, 



Twice eight, a speckled hrood we tell, 



Nestling Beneath thy wing ! 

 And still unwearied, many a clay, 

 Thy little partner lores to stay, 

 Perched on some tremhling limber spray, 



Beside Ms mate to sing. 



Anonymous. 



Synonyms. — Motacilla troglodytes, Linn. Syst. — Sylvia trog- 

 lodytes, Lath. Ind. Orn. — Troglodytes Europseus, Cuv. Regne 

 Anim. — Anorthura troglodytes, Morris's Cat. Br. Birds. — Analyst, 

 No. 14. — Common Wren, Selby's Br. Orn. — Ivy Wren, Analyst, 

 No. 14. 



The Ivy Wren is little superior in size to the 

 Goldcrested Kinglet (Regains aiiricapillus, Sel- 

 by), and is common paid indigenous in every part 

 of Britain, being an extremely hardy little creature. 

 Its bill is longer, and its tail shorter, than those of 

 most other members of the family fSylviadceJ, and 

 the prevailing color of the body is dark brown, 

 and the eyes are bright and glistening. The tail 

 is often held at a right angle with the body, and 

 is always more or less cocked. 



* This paper forms the article " Ivy Wren" in our British 

 Songsters, and is here printed, at the suggestion of our esteemed 

 scientific friend Charles Liverpool, Esq., M.D., as a specimen of 

 the work. — N. W. 



