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SCANSOREP. 
CER Till A BJE. 
WREN. 
KITTY WREN. 
Troglodytes vulgaris. 
PLATE LXII. FIG. III. 
The nest of the Wren is of an oval form, arched over, 
and protected on every side. It is a most beautiful speci¬ 
men of strength, warmth, and neatness, and so compact 
and closely interwoven, that one in my collection might 
be kicked about the floor without much disarranging or 
disuniting those minute particles of moss of which it was 
first formed. It is usually constructed of green mosses ; 
and from its close resemblance to the situation in which 
it is placed, is admirably protected from discovery. Its 
position is most commonly against the moss-grown side 
of a rock, a bank, or an old tree, in the decayed side of 
which the nest is formed; and, but for the small hole of 
entrance, would be regarded as only a portion of the tree. 
I have found it on the lower branch of a spruce fir-tree 
in the middle of a furze-bush, and constructed chiefly of 
dry grass, sometimes covered outside with ferns ; and not 
unfrequently against the side of a clover stack, formed 
entirely of the clover, and becoming so completely a piece 
of the stack itself, that were it not for the flight of the 
bird from the spot, it would have run no risk of detection. 
