. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WRENS 191 in outbuildings. The only nest with eggs taken in Massachusetts that is now on exhibition in any museum is in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. Its history as told by its discoverer is this: He hung for safe keep- ing high under the ridgepole inside the barn a grape basket containing some sticks of dynamite. A few weeks later when he went to get it the Wren had built her nest in the basket, deposited her eggs and was incubating. The dynamite was removed with great care and replaced with paper, but the bird refused to
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WRENS 191 in outbuildings. The only nest with eggs taken in Massachusetts that is now on exhibition in any museum is in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. Its history as told by its discoverer is this: He hung for safe keep- ing high under the ridgepole inside the barn a grape basket containing some sticks of dynamite. A few weeks later when he went to get it the Wren had built her nest in the basket, deposited her eggs and was incubating. The dynamite was removed with great care and replaced with paper, but the bird refused to be comforted and de- serted the nest. Howe Forbusii. The Carolina \Wen has to its credit an ap- parent disposition to destroy the dreaded boll weevil whose working on cotton-bolls has been a most serious matter in several Southern States. The ^^'rens live in Texas and Louisiana through- out the year, and frequent thickets and clearings littered with fallen timber. In these sur- roundings they capture the weevils during their period of hibernation, and it is apparent that thcv also take them in the Spanish moss during the same period. The Florida \\'ren ( Thryothorus Uidovicianus niianiciisis) is larger than the Carolina Wren and its coloration is darker and richer; the upper parts are rich chestnut to dark chestnut, the stripe over the eye is decidedly bufify. the under parts (except the chin and upper throat) are deep clay color or tawny yellow, the flanks tinged with chestnut and (sometimes the sides also) barred with chestnut or dusky. It is found only in the pem'nsula of Florifla. south of the .Suwanee lj> J b ^rmfitld C")UrtL NEST OF A CAROLINA WREN In an old wash-basin BEWICK'S WREN Thryomanes bewicki bewicki {Audubon) A. O. U. Number 719 Other Names.— Long-tailed House Wren; Song Wren. General Description.— Length, 5'j inches. L'pper parts, brown ; under parts, grayish-white. Bill, shorter than head, slender: wings, short and rounded; tail,
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