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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
ed in Massachusetts at that season ; and with their 
nest and habits of incubation we are unacquainted. In the 
fall they seek society apparently with the Titmouse and 
Golden-Crested Wren, with whom they are intimate- 
ly related in habits, manners, and diet ; the whole form- 
ing a busy, silent, roving company, with no object in 
view but that of incessantly gleaning their now scanty 
and retiring prey. So eagerly, indeed, are they engaged 
at this time, that scarcely feeling sympathy for each oth- 
er, or willing to die any death but that of famine, they 
continue almost uninterruptedly to hunt through the 
same tree from which their unfortunate companions have 
just fallen by the destructive gun. They only make at 
this time, occasionally, a feeble chirp, and take scarcely 
any alarm, however near they are observed. 
The Ruby-crowned Wren is a little more than 4 inches long, and 
6 in alar extent. Above green-olive. Wings and tail dusky greyish- 
brown, edged with olive-yellow ; secondaries and first row of wing- 
coverts edged and tipt with whitish. The hind head ornamented 
with a vermilion spot ; round the eye a ring of yellowish-white. 
Beneath yellowish-white. Legs and feet dusky brown. The colors 
of the female are less lively. 
CUVIER’S CRESTED WREN. 
(Regulus Cuvierii, Audubon, pi. 55. Orn. Biog. i. p. 288.) 
Sp. Charact. — Cinereous olivaceous, beneath greyish- white ; 
crown vermilion, anteriorly margined with black ; cheeks cine- 
reous, a black band from the front, through the eyes. 
This is another interesting addition to the North 
American Fauna, which we owe to the talent and supe- 
rior devotion to ornithology of its celebrated discoverer. 
No species can be better marked or more strikingly dis- 
tinguished. It has the ruby-crown of R. calendulus with 
the black border of the R. cristatus. The only specimen 
yet known was shot by its describer, on the 8th of June, 
