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TROGLODYTES EUROP^US. 
If this bird, as some suppose, retires only to the upP^^ 
reg'ions of the country, and monntainons forestSs 
breed, as is the case with some otliers, it will acco^jj 
for his early and frequent residence along the Atl*® ( | 
coast during the severest winters ; though I u; | 
suspect that he proceeds considerably to the north"'-'^| 
as the snow bird, Hudsonicus,') which arrives 
the same time with the winter wren, does not 
breed at Ilndson’s Bay, but piisses that settlemco*'. 
June, on his way to the northward ; how much tat*' 
is unknown. 
The lenjrth of the winter wren is three inches s®. 
ot • 
body; tips of the 
dusky; throat, line over the eye, sides of the neck> ^ 
feathers and breast, dirty white, with minute trans^f^jj 
touches of a drab or clay colour; sides under the 
speckled with dark brown, black, and dirty 
belly and vent thickly mottled with sooty black, 
of a dark brown or black above, and whitish h«*l 
nostril, oblong; eye, light hazel. The female n'ants^[,ii 
points of white on the wing-coverts. The food ot 
bird is derived from that great magazine of so 
the feathered race, insects and their larvae, partid* 
id* 
half, breadth, five inches; the upper parts are 
general dark brown, crossed with transverse touebd^^ 
black, except the upjter parts of the head and .( 
which are plain; the black spots on the back terni“,‘|^ 
in minute points of dull white ; the first row of 
coverts is also marked with specks of white at j,; 
extremities of the black, and tipt minutely with blabj, 
the next row is tipt with points of white ; the priio*'^^ 
are crossed with alternate rows of black and 
colour ; inner vanes of all the quills, dusky, except k 
three secomlaries next the 
brown, and pure white, in transverse touches; 
very short, consisting of twelve feathers, the e.^td j 
one on each side a quarter of an inch shorter, the 
lengthening gradually to the middle ones; 
feet, a light clay colour, and pretty stout; bill, 
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slender, half an itich long, not notched at the P,® .? 
