YELLOW WREN. 
it begins with a slender, broken cluck; which 
^ succeeded by , a series, of silvery detached 
sounds, like the clinking of telling erown-. 
pieces : this is, probably, what Willughby and 
Albin compare to the stficlulous voice of Gras- 
hoppers. After these two notes, very different 
from each other, tlie bird sings it's full song; 
which is soft, pleasant, and well supported: it 
lasts during all the spring and summer, but, in 
the month of August, it gives place to a slen- 
der whistle, " Tuit! Tuit ! " which is nearly the 
same in the Red-Tail, and in the Nightingale. 
' ** The Yellow Wren is extremely active. 
It incessantly flutters, briskly, from one branch 
to another. It darts from it's place to catch a 
fly; it returns; and searches continually 
among the leaves, on both sides, for insects : 
which, in some provinces, has given occasion 
to the name of Frisker — Fretillet, Feneroter. 
It has a small oscillation of the tail, upwards 
and downwards ; but slow, and regular. 
These birds arrive in i\i>ril, often before 
the leaves are unfolded : they form flocks of 
fifteen or twenty, during th ir passage ; but 
on their arrival,,, immediately separate into 
^ pairs. 
