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2 THE NATURAL HISTORY | 
“In the fpring the Wren frequents woods, where 
it builds its neft under thick and leafy branches, 
at no great diftance from the ground, fometimes 
in a mofly bank, or in the projecting margin ofa 
little fream, under the trunk of a tree, againfta 
rock, and fometimes in the roofs of the folitary 
cots of faggot«makers in the woods. ‘The out- 
fide of this curious firuéture is compofed entirely 
of mofs, and neatly lined with feathers, It is 
almoft round, and fo uncouth on the outfide 2s 
to refemble a mofs-grown clod, and excite of 
courfe no attention. A little entrance is left on 
the fide; the Wren lays from ten to eighteen fmall 
eggs, of a dingy white, fpotted at the ae en 
with red. 
If the perceive that her nef i is difcovered, ‘the 
‘itnmediately y forfakes it. =) ‘ 
Sometimes the field-moufe takes pofleffion of 
Wren’s nett, but whether i it be firft deferted, or 
-whether the moufe deftroys the young» is: “DOr 
known, 
_ Like the Robin the Ween’ fings late in the 
evening, and early in the morning. 
It inhabits every part of Europe, and continues. 
La us in Eng and all the year. : 


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