WESTERN HOUSE WREN. 
721a. Troglodytes aedon parlcmani. 5 inches. 
Range. —Pacific coast, from British Columbia southward to 
Lower California. These happy little songsters are to be met 
with more about civilization, and seem to prefer the culti¬ 
vated lands to the wild. They build in bird houses or holes 
of trees, and no matter how large the tenement may be they 
will keep busy until it is filled, leaving only space enough for 
their nest. They lay from five to seven eggs of a pinkish 
color, with a wreath of brown dots about the largei end 
(.65 x .52). 
WESTERN WINTER WREN. 
722a. Nannus hiemalis pacificus. 4 inches. 
Range. —From Alaska to New Mexico, through North Amer¬ 
ica. This is the smallest of the family, and is also one. of 
the most quiet in song. They are active little fellows, just 
a bunch of feathers, with a short stub of a tail up over 
their backs when observed, and getting about the brush heaps 
and stone walls like little mice. They nest in walls or 
crevices of rocks, and stumps, building of twigs, leaves, grass 
and feathers, in which usually six or seven eggs, creamy 
white, finely specked with brown, are laid (.60x.48). 
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