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leaves and moss; the interior is lined with warm 
materials. The number of eggs varies from six to 
nine, but I have known fourteen taken out of one nest. 
The habitation is very often placed in ivy grown 
round the body of a tree, and sometimes in a bank, 
or in the roof of a roughly-built shed. I remember 
once seeing a Wren’s nest in a cabbage, where it 
reared its offspring: this nest was discovered by the 
bird flying out when the gardener went to cut the 
vegetable. But the most ridiculous fact I know about 
the Wren must not be omitted. Once I saw a nest of 
this bird in an efhgy, which was put up on a small 
piece of ground in order to frighten the birds and 
keep them.-off the land. The figure was clothed, wore 
a beaver hat, stuffed with straw, and supported by 
sticks. The nest was not very discernible, as it was 
placed under the hat; and,I have no doubt I should 
never have found it, had net the old bird flown out, 
either through the shake or the report of a stroke | 
_ gave the figure with a stick when passing by it. The 
young follow the parent birds in parties: I have seen 
nine all looking to one parent for subsistence. 
