. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes .. . - concave at base ; nostrils exposed ; tarsus OF NEW ENGLAND. 71 scutellate ; bind toe considerably longer than the middle one ;primaries nine. The wagtails are virtually terrestrial warblers,closely allied to the Seiuri. It may be observed that our land-birds, as at present arranged,form a series, which may be artificially classified hy food. Thusthe higher Oscines are chieflj^ insectivorous, the shrikes partlyinsectivorous, but otherwise carnivorous, while the sub
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes .. . - concave at base ; nostrils exposed ; tarsus OF NEW ENGLAND. 71 scutellate ; bind toe considerably longer than the middle one ;primaries nine. The wagtails are virtually terrestrial warblers,closely allied to the Seiuri. It may be observed that our land-birds, as at present arranged,form a series, which may be artificially classified hy food. Thusthe higher Oscines are chieflj^ insectivorous, the shrikes partlyinsectivorous, but otherwise carnivorous, while the subsequentfamilies are chiefly granivorous. The Clamatores and Picarice,the Baptores, and the Columhce, form a very similar sequence,the pigeons being, so to speak, vegetarians. I. TROGLODYTES (A) ^ Winter Wren. Wood Wren.(Quite common in Massachusetts, during the migrations, inApril and October.). Fig. 3. Winter Wren. (a). About four inches long. Tail rather short. Essen-tially like the next species in coloration ; but superciliary line, 1^ This species has been placed by Baird in this genus (subgenus Anorthura),by other authors in the genus Anorthura, with the specific name hyemalis or troglo-dytes. Prof. Baird has recently called it a variety of the European T. have here called it the AVood Wren, because Audubons so-called Wood Wren (T. Americanus) is now known to be the same as the House Wren (T. cedon),and because the Winter Wrens inhabit woods, almost exclusively, whereas ourother wrens do not. The name is tlierefore extremely appropriate. For the GreatCarolina Wren (Thryothorus Ludovicianus) see a note at the end of this biography. 72 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS and (generally) markings on the wing, whitish. Habits veryclifTereut. {b). Five eggs, not quite fresh, which I took from a nestin the White Mountains on the 23rd of July (probably thoseof a second set), w
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