GREAT CAROLINA WREN. 
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ing is frequently lieard in gardens soon after daybreak, and along the 
borders of the great rivers of the Southern States, not far from the sea- 
coast. 
The Great Wren of Carolina is five inches and a quarter long, and 
seven broad ; the ■\vhole upper parts are reddish brown, the wings and 
tail being barred with black ; a streak of yellowish white runs from the 
nostril over the eye, down the side of the neck, neaidy to the back ; 
below that a streak of reddish brown extends from the posterior part of 
the eye to the shoulder ; the chin is yellowish wliite ; the breast, sides 
and belly a light rust color, or reddish bufi"; vent feathers white, neatly 
barred with black ; in the female plain ; wing coverts minutely tipped 
with Avhite ; legs and feet flesh colored, and very strong ; bill three- 
quarters of an inch long, strong, a little bent, grooved and pointed, the 
upper mandible bluish black, loAver light blue ; nostrils oval, partly 
covered with a j^rominent convex membrane ; tongue pointed and slen- 
der ; eyes hazel ; tail cuneiform, the two exterior feathers on each side 
three quarters of an inch shorter, whitish on their exterior edges, and 
touched with deeper black ; the same may be said of the three outer 
primaries. The female wants the white on the wing coverts ; but differs 
little in color from the male. 
In this species I have observed a circumstance common to the House 
and Winter Wren, but which is not found in the JNIarsh Wren ; the 
feathers of the lower part of the back, when parted by the hand, or 
breath, appear spotted with white, being at bottom deep ash, reddish 
brown at the surface, and each feather with a spot of white betAveen 
these two colors. This, however, cannot be perceived without parting 
the feathers. 
