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EUROPEAN WREN. 



(Troglodytes Europseus.) 



Tr. griseus, alis nigro cinet^eoque imdulatis. 



Grey Wren, with the wings undulated with black and grey. 



Motacilla Troglodytes. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 337. 43*— Lin. Faun. 



Suec. iQl.'^Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 993. 

 Sylvia Troglodytes. Lnth. Ind. Orn. 2. 547. 148. 

 Troglodytes. Ray. Syn. 80. a. 11.— FTz^j. t6A. 42. 

 Regulus. Briss. Orn. 3. 425. 24. 



Troglodytes, Roitelet. Buf. Hist, Nat. Ois. 4. 352. pi. I6.f. 



l.-^Buff. PL EnL 651. f, Hist. Prov. 1. 510. 



Wren. Pen. Brit. Zool. \. ISA.—Pen.Jrct. Zool. 2. 322.— 



Albin, Birds, 1. pi. 53. b, — Hayes. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 111. — 



Wale. Syn. 2. 242.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 506. 143. — Beuoick., 



Brit. Birds. 1. 22^.— Mont. Orn. Did. 2. 

 Troglodytes Europseus. Leach. 



Length four inches and a quarter : beak dusky 

 brown, and nearly straight: irides dark hazel: 

 the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, deep 

 reddish brown, obscurely marked with transverse 

 dusky lines : the eyebrows pale-coloured : the 

 quills and tail dusky brown, the latter crossed with 

 undulated dusky black lines, the former spotted 

 with, light brown : the plumage beneath light 

 rufous brown, the sides and thighs with darker 

 lines : the under tail-coverts spotted with dusky 

 and white : legs pale brown. 



This bird is found throughout Europe, and, 

 like the Gold-crest, defies the severest winters, 

 approaching, during that season, the habitations 

 of man : it commences building its nest very early 



