YELLOW WREN. 
pairs. Sometimes, shortly after their appear- 
ance, they are surprized by frosts, and drop 
dead in the roads, 
" This delicate little species is, however, 
widely diffused. It even visits Sweden : wliere, 
Linnseus says, it inhabits the Willow plots. 
It is known in all the provinces of France. It 
is also found in Italy. It is probable, that the 
Small Green Wren, which Edwards tells us 
was brought from Bengal, is only a variety 
of the European Yellow Wren." 
The Yellow Wren is called, in Tuscany, 
Lui ; a name which, according to Olina, it 
pronounces in a plaintive voice, without 
having any other song. This," Bufton 
remarks, *' seems to shew that the Yellow 
Wren does not pass the summer in Italy; which 
is the more probable, as Olina afterwards men= 
tions it's being seen in winter." 
In the forest of Orleans, according to Sa- 
lome, it still preserves the name of Chofti; 
which, as BufFon states, it has lost in Lorraine.' 
*' This little bird," says Salerne, ** varies in- 
finitely it's song : it is one of the first to an- 
nounce 
