OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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“ It is often seen in company with the ruby- crowned 
wren among the maple-blossoms, and it is also very 
partial to evergreens. It is represented as ‘ an active, 
unsuspicious, diligent little creature, climbing and 
hanging occasionally among the branches, and some- 
times even on the body of the tree, in search of the 
larvae of insects attached to the leaves and stems, 
and various kinds of small flies, fthich it frequently 
seizes on the wing. During the summer and early 
autumn it is numerous in orchards, feeding among 
the leaves of the apple trees, which at that season 
are infested with vast numbers of small black- winged 
insects/ 
“ The chirp of the golden-crested wren is feeble, 
not much louder than that of a mouse, but the male is 
said to send forth a variety of sprightly notes while 
his mate is sitting on her eggs. The nest is beauti- 
fully built, and usually suspended near the end of a 
branch, the outside tastefully covered with different 
mosses, generally similar to those growing upon the 
tree on which they build. 
“ Frequently, the nest is found on the branch of 
an evergreen, covered entirely around except a very 
small hole for a front-door, and the pretty little 
domicil of moss and lichens is warmly lined with 
down. There are six or eight pure-white eggs, 
slightly speckled with dull red. 
