. 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 . onlyone, the House Wren, was ever of much economic impor-tance in garden or field. The Winter Wren is ordinarily seen in woodlands andthickets. It comes here chiefly in migration, and is notcommon enough to be of much service to man. The Carolina Wren is rare, and the two Marsh Wrens areseldom if ever seen except in wet lowlands. House Wren. Troglodytes aedon mdon. Length.—A
. 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 . onlyone, the House Wren, was ever of much economic impor-tance in garden or field. The Winter Wren is ordinarily seen in woodlands andthickets. It comes here chiefly in migration, and is notcommon enough to be of much service to man. The Carolina Wren is rare, and the two Marsh Wrens areseldom if ever seen except in wet lowlands. House Wren. Troglodytes aedon mdon. Length.—About five inches. Adult. — Uppei parts bi-own ; lower parts grayish-brown, sometimes grayish-white ; wings, tail, and flanks faintly barred with blackisli; tail often helderect. Nest. — Composed of sticks and rootlets, in a hollow tree or any accessible cavity. Eggs. — Six to eight; white, thickly speckled with reddish-brown. A once common and familiar species, but now no longer aregular sunnner resident in the greater part of Massachusetts,the Wren is apparently doomed to give way before 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. (Photosiraph, fromlife, l)y C. A. Reed.) (From Americau Ornithology.) BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 293 the hope that wherever it still remains people may be inducedto provide tenements for it and protect 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 partly because of the number of insectsit finds about 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, but eve
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