P thas. 0 Te ee 
YeLtow Wren. Latham Gen. Syn. \V. 512. 
Penn. Brit. Zool, N° 151. 
Ard. Zool. Br. Muf.— Lev. Mus. 
Le Pouillot, ou Chantre. Brif. Orn. iii. p.479. N° 45. 
Buff. 01s. V. p.344.—P. enl. 651. fi 1s 
Chofti, ou Chanteur. Belon av. 344. 
Schnee Rienig (Snow King). Frifch, I. 24. 
Schmittl.: Kramer. 378. 
The Yellow Wren ranks among the leaft of the Britifh Birds; it 
meafures only four inches and three quarters from the tip of the bill 
to the extremity of the tail. The colours of its plumage are not at- 
tractive, neither do we introduce it as a rare bird, being one of our 
moft frequent fpecies; but it is a very delicately formed creature, ex- 
ceedingly active, and by concealing itfelf immediately among the 
thickeft of the foliage when any noife approaches, it may not be fo 
generally known as fome lefs timid birds. 
It chiefly frequents large woods, which abound with willows ; 
and builds its neft at the roots of trees, or in the hollows of dry 
banks; it is conftructed in the form of an egg, with a hole at the top — 
for its entrance, the outfide is compofed of mofs and hay, or ftraw; and 
the infide is lined with foft feathers, wool, or hair. It lays feven white 
eggs*, or, according to Latham and Albin, only five; they are freckled 
all over with reddifh fpots. Its note is low and plaintive, fearcely 
more than twit, twit +, which it utters when it is running up and 
down the branches of trees in fearch of infects on which it feeds. It 
is faid that the male has a fong during incubation, far from unplea- 
fing, and is foft, though weak. It is migratory, but vifits us early. 
ECA ESS SSO CEE A ASTI PO RATED AE NI LOCOCO TIEN CE IO 
* Peanant Bre Zool. 1, 151. + Latham. 
Albin 
