. Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature . ct. 10. Nest, globular, the entrance at one side, of coarse grasses, reed stalks,etc., lined with fine grasses, attached to reeds or bushes. Eggs, 5-9, uni-form chocolate or minutely speckled or thickly marked with cinnamon- orolive-brown, 65 X 49. Date, D. C, June 4; Cambridge, June 12. If you would make the acquaintance of this Marsh Wren, you haveonly to visit his home in the cattails and tall, reedy grasses borderingrivers, creeks, and sloughs. It will be unnecessary to announce yours
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature . ct. 10. Nest, globular, the entrance at one side, of coarse grasses, reed stalks,etc., lined with fine grasses, attached to reeds or bushes. Eggs, 5-9, uni-form chocolate or minutely speckled or thickly marked with cinnamon- orolive-brown, 65 X 49. Date, D. C, June 4; Cambridge, June 12. If you would make the acquaintance of this Marsh Wren, you haveonly to visit his home in the cattails and tall, reedy grasses borderingrivers, creeks, and sloughs. It will be unnecessary to announce yourself;he will know of your presence long before you know of his, and fromthe inner chambers of his dwelling will proceed certain scolding, cachingnotes before this nervous, excitable bit of feathered life appears on histhreshold. With many flourishes of the tail and much bobbing andattitudinizing, he inquires your business, but before you have had timeenough to inspect him he has darted back into his damp retreats, andyou can tell of his frequently changing position only by his scolding,grumbling CREEPERS 481 All this time his neighbors—and he generall}^ has numbers of them—have doubtless been charming jou with their rippling, bubbUng, gurg-ling song. It is quite beyond their control ;!they seem filled to overflowingwith an inexhaustible suppl} of music. Sometimes, like a mine ofmelody, it explodes within them and lifts them from the dark recessesof the flags up into the air above. 725b. T. p. griseus (Brewst.). WoRTmxGTONs Marsh Wrex. Gray-est of the Marsh Wrens. Ads.—Above olive-gray; side? of crown narrowlyblackish, black of back much reduced in extent, white streaks less conspicu-ous than in other races; below white, the sides gravish. bars, if present,indistinct; under tail-coverts barred, in this respect resembling T. p. marianmfrom which it may be readilv distinguished by its much grayer , 1-80; T., 1-52; B., -53. Range.—S. Atlantic coast region fro
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