CHAPTER VIII. 
WEENS. 
“ T\TE have not finished yet with the early birds,” 
* * said Miss Harson ; “ and conspicuous among 
them is our old favorite, the house wren (Fig. 8), 
one of the least and sauciest of all the bird tribe. 
This little creature 
is only four inches 
and a half long, 
and of a deep 
brown color, with 
crossings of black, 
except the under 
parts, which are a 
mixture of bluish- 
ash, clay-color, and 
Fig. 8 .—House Wren. white 
“ ‘ The immense number of insects which this so- 
ciable little bird removes from the garden and fruit 
trees ought to endear him to every cultivator, even 
if he had nothing else to recommend him ; but his 
notes, loud, sprightly, tremulous, and repeated every 
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