the Back Sipe birds that are to be found about the cliffs 
of the streams that cut their way far below the level of such | 
land, 
The nest of the Piven. Wren ee not been listed j in the 
northern part of this country, but he has been seen there in: 
the summer, and his bugling notes have told that he is 
searching out new quarters. He will be found, sooner or 
later, by some patient observer, to have chosen a building 
site among the huge boulders of a high precipice, along with 
his relative, the Rock Wren. Lonely is the gorge whose 
steep sides do not re-echo the chatter of this latter bird, | 
as he flits from one crevice to another in search of food for 
his two broods. Often he is overflowing with energy, ‘and 
his loud, joyous tones fill his grim dwelling pare from brim 
to brim. | 
‘As a bird lover becomes eae with one individual 
winged creature after another, he may discover that his _ 
affection will waver, and that he will find it difficult to 
decide just where his strongest feeling is placed among 
birds. In one big city of the Northwest, no “booster” should 
have any indecision. The tiny bird called by its name, the | 
Seattle Wren, is so full of quaint traits and tricksy manners’ | 
that, of its own nature, it might be adored. Add to these 
lovable ways the fact that the city is its godmother, and 
every inhabitant should know the small gray apisve that — 
bears a loved name. 
What pressure was Genco fe bear upon the great 
namers of the American Ornitholical Union to call this 
variety of the Northwest the Seattle Wren is another riddle | 
of the universe to some people. ‘Perhaps the learned Pro- 
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fessor, of Washington, D. C. had visited this enchanting — 
region where sea and tree meet. We can even appreciate 
its scientific name, Thryomanes bewickii calaphonus: when 
we know that it means sweet bottled sounds. Never was a 
bit of birdland better christened. 
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