Identifier: birdlifeguid00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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half a bushelfulbeing sometimes brought with endless pains. The nestproper is composed of dried grasses, and is placed in thecenter of this mass. Even in egg-laying the exhaustlessvitality of Wrens is shown, as many as six or eight eggsbeing deposited. In color they are uniformly and mi-nutely speckled with pinkish brown. The House Wren arrives from the South late in April and remains until October. Shortly before its departure in the fall a Wren comes from the Winter Wren, -^^ tbat resembies tlie House Wren Troglodytes memahs. , in appearance, but is smaller and hasthe under parts pale brown, the breast and belly beingfinely barred with a darker shade of the same color.This is the Winter Wren, a bird that nests from north-ern New England northward and southward along thecrests of the Alleghanies to North Carolina. It remainswith us in small numbers throughout the winter, return-ing to its summer home in April. Mr. Burroughs writesof the Winter Wrens song as a wild, sweet, rhythmical
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Plate LXXI. Pages 180, 181. BED-BBEASTED NUTHATCH. Length, 1-60 inches. Male, crown and line through eye black; backgray; under parts rusty. Female, similar, but black replaced by gray. WHITE-BBEASTED NUTHATCH.Length, 6 -05 inches. Male, crown black ; back gray; face and underparts white. Female, similar, but crown slaty. WEENS. i7f cadence that holds yon entranced, but while with us thebirds only note is an impatient chimp, chimp, suggest-ing the Song Sparrows call-note. The Carolina Wren is a more southern bird than theHouse Wren. It is of only local distribution north ofCarolina Wren, southern New Jersey, and is rarelyThryothorus found north of the vicinity of New ludovicianus. york city, where it appears to be in-creasing in numbers and is found throughout the year.This Wren is half an inch longer and decidedly heavierthan the House Wren ; its upper parts are bright cinna-mon, its under parts washed with the same color, anda conspicuous white line passes from the bill over theeye.

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