GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 183 
Tl 
j. *6 female lays six or cisl't eggs, pure 'n'liite, with a 
. minute specks of dull red. Dr Latham, on whose 
y mority this is given, observes, “ it seems, to prefer 
tli* trees in preference to all others. I liave more 
Once seen a brood of these in a large oak, iii the 
''Idle of a lawn, the whole little family of wliich, as 
."n a,s able, were in perpetual motion, and gave great 
fj,*‘'*suro to many who viewed them. The in-st of one 
these has also been made in a gardeTi on a lir tree ; 
"'-IS composed of moss, the opening on one side, in 
roundish ; it was lined with a downy substance, 
'Xcd with small filaments. It is said to sing very 
j "‘odiously, very like the common wr<!n, but weaker.” * 
j** I eiinsylvania, they continue with us from October 
"Ccember, and sometimes to .lanuary. 
j f ile golden-crested wreii is four inches long, and six 
and a half in extent ; back, a fine yellow olive ; 
head and sides of the neck, inclining to ash ; a line 
Ij "bite passes round the frontlet, extending over and 
^"J’oiid the eye on each side ; above this, another line 
u ^trip of deep black passes in the same manner, 
1^1 Ending farther behind ; between those two strips of 
"ek, lies a i,ej glossy golden yellow, which, being 
e^'^d a little, exposes another of a brigdit llame colour, 
^.'"nding over the whole upper part of the head; 
*'"11 the little warbler Hits among the branches, in 
Pttti 
^ suit of insects, he opens 
„1*''Pient with great adroitness, which |)roduces a 
and elegant effect; lores, marked with circular 
(ii n**'® black ; below the fye, is a rounding spot of 
th " **'*e ; from the upper maiidible to the bottom of 
"ear-feathers runs a lino of black, accompanied by 
“"other ■ ’ 
and shuts this golden 
liT^ner of white, from the lon er mandible ; breast, 
j]^"t cream colour ; sides under the ivings, and vent, 
jjj,® Same ; wings, dusky, edged exteriorly with yellow 
dial*’ ffi'eater wing-coverts, tipt with white, imrae- 
“’•"ly below which, a spot of black extends over 
Si/nopsis, 11, 509. 
