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Habits.— The same as those of C. aquaticus. 
Nest. Like that of C. aquaticus. 
Eggs.— Not distinguishable from those of C. aquaticus. 
THE WRENS. FAMILY TROGLODYTIDHt. 
I his family includes a number of small species of birds 
largely represented in the New World, and distributed exten- 
sively over the Palsearctic Region and the Himalayan system 
of the Indian Region. They have been placed by some 
ornithologists _ with the Creepers, which they resemble in the 
colour of heir eggs and also in the fact of the absence of 
octal bristles at the base of the bill. They have stout legs 
to"theb e o r d/ OUnded r,melllne wln g> concave and fitting close 
THE TRUE WRENS. GENUS ANORTIIURA. 
Anorthura, Rennie, ed. Mont. Orn. Diet, 2nd ed., p. 570 (183 1 ). 
Type, A. troglodytes (Linn,). 
1 HE WREN. ANORTHURA TROGLODYTES. 
Motacilla troglodytes , Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 337 (1766) 
Anorthura troglodytes, Macg., Br. B, iii., p. i 5 (1840); Sharpe, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus., vt., p. 269 (1881). F 
Troglodytes parvulus , Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 460 ('1873')- 
Dresser, B. Eur., hi., p. 219, p l. I24 ( i873 ) . B . O 
List Br. B., p. 29 (1883); Seeb., Hist. Br. B., i., p. 505 
(n ■. 3 ) , Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. iv. (1887); Saunders, 
Man., p. I07 (1889); Wyatt, Br. B„ pl. hi , fig. r ’ 
(1894). r 6 
(Plate XXVII.) 
Adult Male.— General colour above dark brown, becoming 
more rufous towards the lower back and rump, and dull 
chestnut on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median wing- 
coverts dusky brown, with tiny whitish spots at the end of 
the latter ; greater-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
quills dusky brown, externally dull chestnut, barred with 
blackish, the primaries chequered with whitish interspaces, 
and the innermost secondaries barred across with blackish 
