CAROLINA WREN. 
MOCKING WREN. 
Thryothorus ludovicianus. 
Char. Above, reddish brown, with fine black bars ; below, tawny buff ; 
long line over the eye white or buff ; wings and tail with daik bars. 
Length 5>4 to 6 inches. 
Nest. In any available hole, often in hollow tree, sometimes in brush 
heap, usually in the woods ; composed of grass, leaves, etc., sometimes 
fastened with corn-silk, lined with feathers, grass, or horse-hair. 
Eggs. 3-6: white, with pink or buff tint, thickly speckled around 
larger end with reddish brown ; 0.7 5 X 0.60. 
This remarkable mimicking and Musical Wren is a constant 
resident in the Southern States from Virginia to Florida, but 
is rarely seen at any season north of the line of Maryland or 
Delaware, though, attracted by the great river-courses, it is 
abundant from Pittsburg to New Orleans. A few individuals 
stray, in the course of the spring, as far as the line of New 
York, and appear in New Jersey and the vicinity of Philadel- 
phia early in the month of May. On the 1 7th of .^pril, re- 
turning from a Southern tour of great extent, I again recognized 
my old and pleasing acquaintance, by his usual note, near 
Chester, on the Delaware, where, I have little doubt, a few 
remain and pass the summer, retiring to the South only 
