CHEAT CAROLINA WREN. 
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'sf" winter. In this last season their chirruping 
heard in gardens soon after daybreak, and 
tke borders of the great rivers of the southern 
not far from the sea coast. 
lHa STcat Avren of Carolina is five inches and a 
long, and seven broad; the whole upper parts 
hL I'^ildish brown, the wings and tail being barred with 
dvp ’ ^ streak of yclloAvish white runs from the nostril 
flhe eye, doivu the side of the neck, nearly to the 
^Oh!’ that, a streak of reddish brown extends 
the posterior part of the eye to the shoulder; 
^ |.®hin is yellowish white; the breiist, side.s, and l)elly, 
M.’Sht rust colour, or reddish buff; vent-feathers, 
neatly baiTed with black ; in the female, plain; 
A^'coverts, minutely tipt rvith white ; legs .and feet, 
4^ eoloured, and very strong ; bill, three (juarters of 
% long, strong, a little bent, grooved, and pointed, 
/iPper inaudible, bluish black, loAver, light blue; 
1 partly covered with a prominent conve.x 
^l’'hrane; tongue, pointed and slender ; eyes, hazel; 
’''"'aiforra, the two exterior feathers on each side 
quarters of an inch shorter, whitish on their 
edges, and touched with deeper black ; the 
j *Ray be said of the three outer primaries. The 
little . Wants the Avhite on the wiug-coA'erts ; but differs 
y ‘n colour from the male. 
Ibis species I have observed a circumstance 
ito( l?®n to the house and ivinter wren, but which is 
in the marsh wren ; the feathers of the lower 
'Ppc fhe back, ivhen parted by the hand, or breath, 
*^'i(l**i white, being at bottom deep ash, 
*l>ot . in'OAvn at the surface, and each feather w ith a 
^hite between these two colours. This, hoiv- 
’ ®annot be perceived without parting the feathers. 
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