. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. Drawing by R I Brasher WREN-TIT (i nat. size) Prudent to the point of secretiveness s\vall(.nvcd the bite and went hunting through an adjoining bush to show us that he was merely skirmishing to appease his own appetite and that he had neither nest nor children. \Mien we lirst found the X'crdin's nest, the doorway was a round hole in the side. By get- ting the light just right, we could look inside. A week later when we visited the same home, we were surprised not to see the door at all. The birds evidently thought we had been too curious, so they bu
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. Drawing by R I Brasher WREN-TIT (i nat. size) Prudent to the point of secretiveness s\vall(.nvcd the bite and went hunting through an adjoining bush to show us that he was merely skirmishing to appease his own appetite and that he had neither nest nor children. \Mien we lirst found the X'crdin's nest, the doorway was a round hole in the side. By get- ting the light just right, we could look inside. A week later when we visited the same home, we were surprised not to see the door at all. The birds evidently thought we had been too curious, so they built a little roof and porch, sloping it out and straight down, so that I had to get down on my hands and knees to look up to find the doorway, for the entrance was now in 'the bottom. The Verdin makes u:;e of his home not onlv during the summer to raise a family, but he often uses it in winter as a sleeping place. Many birds abandon the nest as soon as the children leave home and it then falls to ruin. Not so with the Verdin; he keeps his in repair. He is such a tiny fellow, he needs a protected place for sleep. So he has learned to use his own roof during the winter season. William L. Finley,. WREN-TITS Order Passcrcs; suborder Oscincs; family Chaiitccidce LTHOUGH the characters of the single genus which constitutes the family of Wren-Tits are in the main intermediate between those of the Titmice family and those of the Wren family, they are not all so, and there can be no question, says Robert Ridgway, that it is an isolated type and should be regarded as a distinct family. The chief anatomical characteristics of the Wren-Tits are: bill much shorter than the head, compressed, and strongly curved above; well- developed bristles at the corners of the mouth; the feathers of the neck and chin terminated by distinct though fine bristles; wings rather short and much rounded; tail, much longer than wing, graduated for nearly one half its length, the feathers rather narrow, but gradu
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