. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WRENS 189 liousehold eccentricities. It nests in a rocky crevice. It often makes a path into the nest. ".And when it comes to lining the approaches of .the chosen cavity, what do you suppose they use?" says Mr. \\'. L. Pawson. " Why, rocks, of course; not large ones this time, but flakes and pebbles of basalt, which rattle pleasantly every time the bird goes in and out. These rock- chips are sometimes an inch or more in diameter, and it is difficult to conceive how a bird with such a delicate beak can compass their removal. Here they
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WRENS 189 liousehold eccentricities. It nests in a rocky crevice. It often makes a path into the nest. ".And when it comes to lining the approaches of .the chosen cavity, what do you suppose they use?" says Mr. \\'. L. Pawson. " Why, rocks, of course; not large ones this time, but flakes and pebbles of basalt, which rattle pleasantly every time the bird goes in and out. These rock- chips are sometimes an inch or more in diameter, and it is difficult to conceive how a bird with such a delicate beak can compass their removal. Here they are, however, to the quantity of half mind with the sand and the sage. I have often seen him in the arid desert regions of eastern Oregon. The first time 1 ever saw him. I recognized him instantlv bv his general \\ ren character. He is generally appreciated, for he is often seen where songsters are rather scarce. /\.s Airs. Bailey says, " Even his song, which at first hearing seems the drollest, most unbird-like of machine-made tinklings, comes to be greeted as the voice of a friend in the desert, and its quality to seem in harmony with the hard, gritty granites in which he lives. Its phrases are varied, but one of its commonest — given [)er-. Drawing by R. I. Brasher ROCK WREN ( i nat. size) elcome sign of cheerful Ufe in the torrid western canons a pint or more, and they are just as nuich a necessity to every well-regulated .Salpinctean household as marble steps are to Philadel- ; The Rock \\'ren is typical of the rimrock regions of the West. He is associated in inv hajis from the top of a clifif while his mate is feeding their brood on a ledge below — is little more than a harsh kra-zi.'cCj kra-ivec. kra-wcc, km-7ccc, given slowly at first, then after a little bob repeated in faster ; William L. CAROLINA WREN Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus {Latham) -\ n. l\ XumhcT ;i8 Other Names.—Mocking Wren; Great Carolina Wren : Louisiana
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