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the Golden Wren. Regulus Criflatus. And common Wren. Pafier trog-. 



lodites. MllJ. 



Numb. LIII. A 0,2.0 . 



THIS is the leaft of all Birds found with us in England ; its Length from the Tip of the Bill 

 to the End of the Tail, is three Inches and half a Quarter, Breadth when the Wings are ex- 

 tended, fix Inches, Weight three Drams. The Top ot the Head is adorned with a molt beauti- 

 ful bright Spot or Creft of a golden yellow, intermixt with a Saffron Colour. Hence it got thofe 

 ambitious Titles of Regulus and Tyrannus^ little King or Tyrant; it can when it lifts, by cor- 

 rugating its Forehead, and drawing the Sides of the Spot together, wholly conceal its Creft, and 

 render it invifible. It is of an oblong Figure, and extended dire£tly thro' the Middle of the 

 Head from the Bill towards the Neck. The Edges of it on both Sides are yellow, and the whole 

 is environed with a black Line; The Sides of the Neck are of a lovely fhining yellowifti green 

 Colour } the Eyes are encompaffed with white j the Neck, and all the Back, from a dark green 

 incline to yellow j the Breaftis of a fordid white, the Wings are concave, not much unlike the 

 Chaffinch's Wingsj the quill Feathers are eighteen, all of a dufky Colour, only their exterior 

 Edges yellowifh, and their interior Edges whitilhj the Tips alfo of the three next the Body are 

 white. The outermoft quill Feathers are very fhort and little j the covert Feathers of the firft 

 have white Tips, all together making a white Line crofs the Wing. 



The Tail is made up of twelve Feathers fliarp pointed, an Inch and a half long, not forcipate, 

 of a dusky Colour, only the exterior Borders of the Feathers are of a yellowifh gieen. 



The Bill is flender, ftreight, black, a quarter and half a quarter of an Inch long; the Feet and 

 Clav7s yellowifh; the Tongue long, fharp, and cloven ; the Irides of the Eyes of a Hazel Colour. 



They lay fix oi- feven Eggs no bigger than large Peas; their Food is fmall Infefts. My Lord 

 Trevor found one in his Garden, which built its Ncftin a Yew Tree near theHoufe. 



The Length of a common Wren, is four Inches and half, breadth fix Inches and a half. Weight 

 three Drams and a half. The Head, Neck and Back are of a dark fpadiceous Colour, efpeciajly 

 the Rump and Tail; the Back, Wings and Tail are varied with crofs black Lines; theThroac 

 is of a pale yellow, the Middle of the Breaft whiter : the lower Belly is of a dufky red j the Tips 

 of the fecpnd Row of Wing Feathers are marked with three or four Spots of a yellowifh Co- 

 lour, as is alfo the Covert Feathers of the Tail. The number of quill Feathers are eighteen j the 

 Tail, which for the moft Part it holds ere£b, is made up of twelve Feathers. 



The Bill is half an Inch long, flender, yellowifh beneath, dufky above; the Mouth within fide 

 yellow, Irides of the Eyes Hazel coloured; the outer Toes are faftned to the middle one as far 

 as the firft Joint j it creeps about Hedges and Holes j it makes but fhorc Flights, and if driven 

 from the Hedges, may be eafily tired and run down. 



It builds its Neft foraetimes by the Walls of Houfes, in the Back-fides of Stables, or other 

 Out-houfes covered with Straw, but more commonly in Woods and Hedges, without of Mofs, 

 within of Hairs and Feathers. This Neft is of the Figure of an Egg e red upon one end, and hath 

 in the Middle of the Side a Door or Aperture by- which it goes in and our. Being kept tame, 

 it fings very fweetly, and with a higher and louder Voice than one would think for its Strength 

 and Bignefs, and that efpecially in the Month of May, for then it breeds ; It lays nine or ten 

 Eggs, and fometimes more. 



It is faid to be a fpccifick Remedy for the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder being faked and 

 eaten rav/j or being burnt and the Afhes of one Bird taken in White Wine. 



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