COMMON OR WINTER WREN. 
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with sooty black, deep brown, and white, in bars. Tail very short. 
Legs and feet pale clay-color. Bill straight, half an inch long, dark 
brown above, whitish beneath. Iris light hazel. 
GREAT CAROLINA or MOCKING WREN. 
( Troglodytes ludovicianus , Bonap. Audubon, pi. 78. Orn. Biog. i. p. 
399. Sylvia ludoviciana , sp. 150. Lath. Certhia caroliniana , 
Wilson, ii. p. 61. pi. 12. fig. 5. Phil. Museum, No. 7248.) 
Sp. Charact. — Chesnut-brown ; wings and tail with dusky-bars, 
the coverts tipt with white ; beneath pale rusty, incl’ning to grey 
on the throat ; the vent white, barred with black ; a whitish stripe 
over the eye, extending down to the side of the neck. — Female , 
lighter, without the white on the wing coverts. 
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 
