. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . e shortness of theirwings and tail, their flight is direct, being performed by rapidlyrepeated flaps. They inhabit both continents, some of thespecies extending as far north as any other small birds of asimilar nature. Their colouring is generally dull, or at leastnot in any case remarkable for brilliancy. They construct avery bulky nest, of wh
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . e shortness of theirwings and tail, their flight is direct, being performed by rapidlyrepeated flaps. They inhabit both continents, some of thespecies extending as far north as any other small birds of asimilar nature. Their colouring is generally dull, or at leastnot in any case remarkable for brilliancy. They construct avery bulky nest, of which the interior is composed of moss andother soft materials, and often lined with feathers. The eggsare numerous, that is from five to eight, or even more, generallywhite or very light coloured, more or less dotted or spotted. Only a single species occurs in Britain, where it is a perma-nent resident, and generally distributed. It is the only specieshitherto found on the continent, although the existence ofanother in Italy is conjectured. In North America however,there are several species, whose habits generally resemble thoseof ours, and of which one is so similar that it can scarcely bedistin£ruishcd. 15 ANORTHURA TROGLODYTES. EUROPEAN Motacilla Troglodytes. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 337. Motacilla Troglodytes, Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 547. Wren. Mont. Orn. Diet. Troglodyte ordinaire. Sylvia Troglodytes. Temm. Man. dOrn. I, 233. Troglodyte ordinaire. Troglodytes vulgaris, Temm. Man. dOrn. III. 160. Common Wren. Troglodytes Europseus. Selb. lUustr. I. 390. Troglodytes Europseus. Common Wren. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 153. Upper parts reddish-brown^ lower light greyish-brown; abrownish-ichite streak over the eye, the hind parts of both sur-faces barred with dusky, two transverse bands of white dots on thewings. Male.—The AVren is one of the most familiarly known ofour small birds, being rendered remarkable, not less by its pecu-liar form than by the liveliness of its motions. Next to
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