. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . n the lower grounds and by rivers, brooks, lakes and feed entirely on insects of various kinds, larvse, pupae, andworms, which they search for among the foliage, on the twigs,and sometimes on the ground. Their flight is rapid, gliding,and undulated, but generally short in ordinary song is short, lively, and melodi
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . n the lower grounds and by rivers, brooks, lakes and feed entirely on insects of various kinds, larvse, pupae, andworms, which they search for among the foliage, on the twigs,and sometimes on the ground. Their flight is rapid, gliding,and undulated, but generally short in ordinary song is short, lively, and melodious. They are generallydistributed in the wooded districts, but are not equally dispersed. PHYLLOPNEUSTE. AVOODWRExN. 363 The separation of the Wood wrens from the preceding generais rather arbitrary, as they diiFer merely in being more deli-cate, with more attenuated bill and feet. They however bearso strong a mutual resemblance that it is difficult to distin-guish them specially, although the proportional length of theirouter primary quills affords a character sufficiently circumstance, with other cases of a like nature, ought toadmonish those who place faith in the form of the tip of thewing as affijrding a generic Fig. 173. Yellow Woodwren.
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