GREAT CAROLINA WREN. 
191 
Of inliabit n-atery places, roots of bushes, and piles 
j timber. 
luiich to bo wished that the summer resi- 
nest, and eggs ot this bird, were precisely 
it ^Isined, whicli would enable us to determine whether 
"’hat I strongly suspect it is, tlie same species as 
Common domestic wreu of Britain. 
SUBGENUS II TltUYOTIlORUS, TIEILL. 
144 . TlWCLODi-T/iS ROOOrlCIJXUS, liONAPAnTE. 
CAROLIXTASA, WILSON. — GllEAT CAROLINA WREN. 
WILSON, PLATE Nil. ITG. 
T 
iftc"® is another of those cquivocul species that so 
Ol*" occur to puzzle the naturalist. The general 
''o of this bird is such, that the most illiterate 
at first sight cult it a wren ; but the common 
of Europe, and the winter 
'.*> ni’e both warblers, judging them according to 
principle of Linnajus. Tlio present species, 
and the marsh wren, though jiossessing great 
wren of the United 
likeness to those above mentioned, are decisively 
( T*’ Id' the bill, the tongue, nostrils, and claws, 
■j." he the criteria by which we are to class them. 
• ®nlour of the plumage of birds is but an uncertain 
II, 'Oconstant guide ; and though in some cases it 
to 
furnish a trivial or specific appellafion, yet 
"ever lead us to the generic one. 1 have, there- 
'ilr,i’ ""twithstanding the general appearance of these 
I '*^. Jltlrl *1. - ..I' V ‘aI. , 1 • , 1 
>«ll 
He, 
^ern’ d*'® pi’aclice of foi iner ornithologists, removed 
L-f fo the genus certhia* from that of motacilla, 
Tu- have hitherto been placed. 
*liOf l'.i*'d is frequently seen, early in May, along the 
Ha]'* dhe Delaware, and other streams that fall into 
jiUt aides, thirty or forty miles below Philadelphia ; 
k a |."Mhcr rare in Pcnnsylv'ania. This circumstanco 
^ ittle extraordinary ; since, from its size and stout 
QfH^^'k^ps unnecessary to remind the reader, that the arrange- 
ttie original edition is not followed in the present. 
