WINTER WEEN. 
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liis residence here, he frequents the projecting 
Utiij of creeks, old roots, decayed logs, small hushes, 
’’’shes near watery places; he even approaches the 
' house, rambles about the w'ood ])ile, creeping 
the interstices like a mouse. With tail erect, 
is liis constant habit, mounted on some projecting 
’t R pinnacle, ho sings n ith great animation. Even 
jp yards, gardens, and outhouses of the city, he 
familiar, and quite at home. In short, he pos- 
almost all the habits of the European species, 
►p. hon ever, migratory, which may be owing to the 
V|'j||’'iqr coldnes.s of our continent. Never having met 
H the nest and cgg.s, I am unable to say how ne.aily 
J approximate to those of the former. 
®an lind no precise description ol this bird, as an 
’^'■icau sitecies, in any European publication. Even 
it of our own naturalists seem to have confounded 
another very ditferent bird, the marsh wren,* 
Ijpijjh arrives in Pennsylvania from the south in May, 
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a globular or pitcher-shaped nest, which it siis- 
’*** among the rushes and bushes by the river side, 
tive or six eggs of a dark fawn colour, and departs 
11, in September. But the colours and markings of 
itp “'rd arc very unlike those of the winter wren, aud 
'•tie . "il alt<igether diftcrent. The circumstance of the 
S 0 p,?‘'’''''ing from the north as the other returns to the 
b and vice versa, with some g<>neral resemblance 
i'lip tbo two, may have occasioned this mistake. 
'“on ever, not only breed in difi'ei'ent regions, but 
tiy”,”!!' to different genera, the marsh Avreu being deci- 
>>(,,, V a species of certhin, and the winter wren a true 
Of Indeed we have no less than live species 
oljjp'^^e birds in Pennsylvania, that, by a superlicial 
liet^^J'''or, Would be taken for one and the same ; but 
.**^0 each of which nature has dr.awn strong, dis- 
and indelible lines of separation. These 
Pointed out in their proper places. 
Professor Barton’s observations on this snbject, under the 
Troylodyt(‘ji9 Ebm/witsUs, &c. i». 1 8 ; Ibid, ji. 12. 
