YELLOW WREN. 
fon, which convinces us that he is mistaken as 
to the number of eggs, this bird usually lays: 
it being probable that, like the Common Wren, 
whose nest', . a.nd even eggs,^ are very simikr, 
it regularly lays at least eight or ten eggs. 
** This little bird," Salerne says, ** is much 
** attached to it's nest, which it will hardly 
*^ forsake. A friend of mine told me that, 
" one day, having found a nest of this bird, 
•^-.^ he made her lay thirty eggs, one after another, 
*' by removing one every day : after which, 
" he took pity on the. tender dam, and suf- 
fered her to hatch." 
*' In autumn," resumes BufFon, *' the Yel- 
low V/ren leaves the _woods, and sings in • 
our gardens .and vineyards. It seems to repeat 
the sounds — Tuit! Tuit!" which is the 
name it receives in some provinces: as, in 
Lorraine, where subsists no trace of the ap- 
pellation Chofti, bestowed in the time of Be-- 
Ion, ' and wliich, according to him, signified 
Singer, alluding to the variety and continuance' 
of it's warble, which lasts during the whole; 
spring and summer. The song has three or 
f«ur variations,; which are mostly modulated. - 
It 
