188 
TROGLODYTES EUROPjEUS. 
combination practicable ; but such a coiigreg’ation 
wrenSj about one g’ardeii, is a phenomenon not to 
expected but from a total change in the very nature uu 
disposition of the species. 
1 hough Europeans are not ignorant of the exi 9 tc>'|\ 
of this bird, they have considered it, as usual, merel.V • 
a slight variation from the original stock, (m. 
dytes,) their own wren; in which they ai'e, as n-9i“* 
mistaken; the length and l)ent form of the bill, its n«''’'J 
migratory habits, long tail, and red eggs, are sulHch’" 
specific dilierences. , 
The house wren inhabits the whole of the Uu>'‘^ 
States, in all of which it is migratory. It leaves 
sylvania in September ; I have sometimes, thoU.” 
rarely, seen it in the beginning of October. It is I 
inches and a half long, and five and three (juartets I 
extent, the whole upper parts of a deep brown, tr»'^ I 
versely crossed with black, except the head and 
which is ]dain ; throat, breast, and cheeks, light I 
colour; belly and vent, mottled with black, brown, ““ 
white ; tail, long, cuneiform, crossed with black ; 
and feet, light clay colour; bill, black, long, 
curved, sharp pointed, and resembling that of the g®''u 
ccifAza, considerably ; the whole pluma'i’e beloiv ^ 
surface is bluish ash; that on the rump having 
round spots of white, not perceivable unless sepav**^. 
with the hand. The female differs very little in plu®^'' 
from the male. 
143 . ^^OGLonrTKS Kt/nor^uSt Tw.Acn, — syzru tboglov^^^ 
WlNTEtt WREN. 
WrLSON, PLATE VIU. Pia. Tl.— EDfNBVUGU COLLEGE 
This Ijttle stranger visits us from the north in 
month of October, sometimes remainin"- with us 
the winter, and is .ahvavs observed, earlvin .siiring, 
route back to his breeding place. In size, colour, 
and manners, he approaches nearer to the Europe’"* 
wren (m. troglodytes) than any other species we b»' ‘ 
