OF BIRDS. 
1C3 
The GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
On the crown the feathers are orange coloured, bounded 
on each fide by black; plumage above a vellowifh green, 
a reddilh white beneath; the wing coverts dutky, crofled 
with two white bands; quills and tail dufky, edged with 
pale green. 
This bird is the fmalleft that is known in Eu¬ 
rope ; it efcapes through the mefhes of our com¬ 
mon bird-nets, and the wires of our clofeft 
cages. If we put it into a room, in time it difap- 
pears through fontc little unperceived opening. 
In our gardens it foon eludes our fight, and no 
wonder, fincc there are few leaves under which 
it may not fit concealed. If you attempt to {hoot 
it, with a view to preferve the figure of the bird, 
the fined fand is fufficiently coarl’e for the pur- 
pofe, fo minute is the beautiful little pbjedt of 
your purfuit. Its cry rcfembles that of the grafs- 
hopper, and it fcarccly exceeds the grafshopper 
in fize. 
The female lays fix or feven eggs in a curious 
neft, like a hollow globe, the outfide is of mofs, 
the infide is fined with the fineft down, and the 
entrance is a little hole in the fide. She builds 
ccircrally in woods, fometirnes in our gardens. 
In pines or yew trees. / 
The 
