. A history of British birds . on the base of the secondaries and tertials; quill s blackish-brown, edged with green—the tertials tipped outwardly withdirty white; the tail-feathers longer than those of theGolden-crested Wren; all the lower parts greyish-brown;legs, toes and claws, brown. The whole length nearly four inches. From the carpusto the end of the primaries, two inches. The young of the year are stated by Mr. Jenyns, to bedistinguished from those of the last species by the longerand broader bill: cheeks cinereous, without any appearanceof the longitudinal streaks: crest of a pale lem
. A history of British birds . on the base of the secondaries and tertials; quill s blackish-brown, edged with green—the tertials tipped outwardly withdirty white; the tail-feathers longer than those of theGolden-crested Wren; all the lower parts greyish-brown;legs, toes and claws, brown. The whole length nearly four inches. From the carpusto the end of the primaries, two inches. The young of the year are stated by Mr. Jenyns, to bedistinguished from those of the last species by the longerand broader bill: cheeks cinereous, without any appearanceof the longitudinal streaks: crest of a pale lemon-yellow,scarcely developed; forehead, and sides of the neck, cinereous;upper parls not so bright as in the adult: under partscinereous, tinged with yellow. The black streak in which the eye is placed is the characterby which this species can be most readily distinguished fromthe preceding. Its American representative with which itwas so long confounded wants the golden-green colour of thesides of the neck. TROGLODYTII).! TROGLODYT1DJ?. Troglodytes parvulus, K. L. Koch *. THE WEEN. Troglodytes vulgaris *f*. Troglodytes, Yieillot\.— Bill moderate, compressed, slightly curved, withoutany notch and pointed. Nostrils basal, oval, partly covered by a very short, concave, rounded; the first feather rather short, the fourth orfifth feather the longest. Tail variable in length, but generally short; its featherssoft and rounded. Feet strong; the tarsus rather long; the middle toe united atthe base to the outer toe, but not to the inner toe; hind toe rather long; clawslong, stout and curved. Body-plumage long and soft. Our little established favourite, the Wren, was long in-cluded among the Warblers; but more than fifty years agocertain ornithologists were pleased to remove it from thatgroup, and to place it with some other birds in a congeriesof heterogeneous forms, to most of which it lias but a verysuperficial resemblance. Consideration of the cli|cf charac-ters
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