. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . acific coast region fromBritish Columbia south to California. Nest. — In holes in trees or about buildings,made largely of twigs, lined with : 5 to 7, pinkish white, thickly spottedwith reddish brown or brownish purple. The house wrens are just .ordinary birds,with no striking marks and nothing musi-■ ^ ■ cal or brilliant about their songs, but they are sucli persistently jolly little songsters that their charm is quiteirresistible. Wherever you m
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . acific coast region fromBritish Columbia south to California. Nest. — In holes in trees or about buildings,made largely of twigs, lined with : 5 to 7, pinkish white, thickly spottedwith reddish brown or brownish purple. The house wrens are just .ordinary birds,with no striking marks and nothing musi-■ ^ ■ cal or brilliant about their songs, but they are sucli persistently jolly little songsters that their charm is quiteirresistible. Wherever you meet them they are always singing, beit about house or barn, deserted cabin, or old sycamore. Ebullientis the only word that expresses them. Their notes fairly tumbleover each other, they are poured out so fast. At times the littlemusicians become ecstatic, and raise their quivering wings till theyalmost meet over the back. Besides their song the wrens have ananxious scolding chatter, and the mother bird a quieting krup-up-up which she uses to soothe her a brood is a protracted process with the wrens. With one. WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. 449 family that I watched in southern California it was six weeks fromthe time they began building before the young left the nest. 721b. T. a. aztecus Baird. Aztec Wren. Like parkmanii, but grayish brown. Distribution. — Western United States except the Pacific coast, east tothe Mississippi Valley ; south to southern Mexico. Aztecus is the same jolly little songster SiS paikmanii, clamberingover your tent and balancing the twigs he carries to his nest, sayingand doing the same things at 9000 feet in the coniferous forest of themountains of New Mexico as the Parkman at sea-level in the hot val-leys of southern California. GENUS OLBIORCHILUS. 722a. Olbiorchilus hiemalis pacificus (Baird). WesternWinter Wren. Tail less than three fourths as long- as wing; outstretched feet reachingfar beyond its end. Upper parts dark brown, bright
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