. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . use Wren, was ever of nuich economic impor-tance in garden or field. The AVinter AYrcn is ordinarily seen in woodlands andthickets. It comes here chieily in migration, and is notcommon enoug-h to be of nmch service to man. The Carolina Wren is rare, and the two Marsh Wrens areseldom if ever seen excei)t in wet lowlands. House ^A^ren. Troglodytes acdon. Length. — About five i
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . use Wren, was ever of nuich economic impor-tance in garden or field. The AVinter AYrcn is ordinarily seen in woodlands andthickets. It comes here chieily in migration, and is notcommon enoug-h to be of nmch service to man. The Carolina Wren is rare, and the two Marsh Wrens areseldom if ever seen excei)t in wet lowlands. House ^A^ren. Troglodytes acdon. Length. — About five inches. Adidt.—Upper parts lirown ; lower parts grayisli-brown, sometimes grayish-white ; wings, tail, and flanks faintly barred with blackish ; tail often helderect. Nest. — Composed of sticks and rootlets, in a hollow tree or any accessible cavity. Ifni><- — Six to eight; wliite, thickly speckled with reddish-brown. A once connnon and familiar species, but now no longer aregular summer resident in the greater j)art of ^Massachusetts,the Wren is ai)parently doomed to give way liefore the ad-vance of the House (or English) Sparrow. Attention iscalled, however, to the desirable qualities of the Wren, in. PLATE XXVII. —Wren at Nest Hole. (PhotOiiTaph, fromlife, by C. A. Keecl.) (From American C)rnitliology.) BIBUS OF FIELD AND GABDFN. 293 the hope that wherever it still remains people may be inducedto provide tenements for it and })rotect it from the Sparrow,and so assist it to increase in numbers. This sprightly little bird seeks the homes of man partlybecause of the nesting places afforded by the hollow treesof the orchard, and parti}- because of the number of insectsit finds al)out house, barn, orchard, and garden. Its pertappearance, as it dashes about with short, upraised tail;its bubbling, ecstatic song; its sharp, scolding notes, as itcreeps about the wood pile or berates the family cat, —were once familiar sights and sounds, not only about thefarmhouse, b
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