. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . which are very short, have the first quill featherthe smallest, the second of the same length as the seventh,the third and the sixth equal, the fourth and filth also equal,and the longest; underneath, the wings aie purple grey; greaterand lesser wing coverts, blackish brown, edsred with grey;primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, blackish brown edgedwith grey or rusty olive-colour. The tail, which is long,extending two inches beyond the closed wings, and cuneiformor wedge-shaped, is blackish brown, the side feathers, whichare nearly ha
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . which are very short, have the first quill featherthe smallest, the second of the same length as the seventh,the third and the sixth equal, the fourth and filth also equal,and the longest; underneath, the wings aie purple grey; greaterand lesser wing coverts, blackish brown, edsred with grey;primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, blackish brown edgedwith grey or rusty olive-colour. The tail, which is long,extending two inches beyond the closed wings, and cuneiformor wedge-shaped, is blackish brown, the side feathers, whichare nearly half an inch shorter than the middle ones, tippedand margined with greyish white; underneath, it .is purplegrey; upper tail coverts, greyish black; under tail coverts,reddish purple grey. Legs and toes, light reddish brown;claws, dusky. The female resembles the male, but is more tino^ed withlight brown on the upper parts, and on the lower is of alighter rufous; the throat is more stieaked with whitish. The young are similarly marked; the eye is WREN. COMMON WREN. KITTY WREN. JIMPO. Sylvia frogJo^i/fpfi, Prvxaxt. 3iotai illii tr oglody fe?, M o N T a G u. B \CWICK. 1 roglodyies vn/gnris^ Tkmminck. euioputuSt CuviER. Siflvfn. Syha—A woorl. Trnglo^^i/tes—The name of an aLcleiu race of people, said to live ia holes and caves. Rtcharb Dowoen, Esq., Mayor of Cork in the year 1845,will doubtless be rather su-prised at seeiii,^*, if, which is perhapsrather problematical, he ever should see, his name at the headof an article in this History of British Birds, but I place itthere to do him all due honour for liaving issued a proclamationd-ring his mayoralty to forb d, on te score of cruelty, thehunting of this little bird on St. Stephens Day by all theidle fellows of the country. There are different traditions asto the origin of this absurd custom,—one dating from thetime of the incursions of the Danes, when it is said that aWren perched on a drum, and there sang so loud a
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