. Birds of Washington and vicinity . ionally gives a varied performance re-sembling a Mockingbirds, from which he is namedMocking Wren. He lives in woods borderingstreams, and is abundant all along Rock Creek andthe Potomac. While one may usually hear the Carolina, findinghim is quite another matter. He seems to delight inplaying hide-and-seek with the observer, keepingwarily to the opposite side of a tree or stump, andflying entirely away if too closely pursued. Lookfor him in wild, secluded places; on fallen trees, aboutold logs and stumps, and under turf which overhangssmall streams. When y
. Birds of Washington and vicinity . ionally gives a varied performance re-sembling a Mockingbirds, from which he is namedMocking Wren. He lives in woods borderingstreams, and is abundant all along Rock Creek andthe Potomac. While one may usually hear the Carolina, findinghim is quite another matter. He seems to delight inplaying hide-and-seek with the observer, keepingwarily to the opposite side of a tree or stump, andflying entirely away if too closely pursued. Lookfor him in wild, secluded places; on fallen trees, aboutold logs and stumps, and under turf which overhangssmall streams. When you catch sight of him youwill be astonished that so great a voice can belong toso small a bird, for he is but little larger than theHouse Wren and much resembles him, his distin-guishing marks being the white line over the eye, themore rusty back, and buffy under parts. The nest isusually in a hole in a stump or log, and is built ofgrasses, moss, feathers and hair. The eggs, 6 to 7,are white, with lavender markings. HO LSI-: WREN 55. HOUSE WREN. House Wren: Troglodytes acdon. Length 5 inches. Upper parts brown; wings and tail finely barred with black. Under parts dull whitish. % . Resident from April 15 to September; winters in theSouthern States. If one wishes these merry little birds around acountry house, he need only put up, out of the reachof cats, a box or gourd with a hole in the side about 56 LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN an inch in diameter—large enough, for the Wrensand too small for English Sparrows. Whatever isgiven them they will first nearly fill with twigs, andupon them build the nest. They also nest in hollowfence-posts or rails, in cavities in stumps and trees,and sometimes in most surprising places, such as anold hat or boot, the sleeve or pocket of a coat, orperhaps in the gourd-shaped mud nest of the EaveSwallow. One pair built in a teakettle, carrying twigsand other material in through the spout, and at thehome of Mr. Ridgway they built in a clothes-pin bagleft
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