. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . UIEC Q mI-w111 DC o z 111 Q _1O CO(O a: HI _i OQIT< QcrO11. t-cc<a WRENS. 139 on the inner parts of the branches of thick furze-bushes. Distribution.—Southernmost counties of England,and some of the south-eastern and midland coun-ties. The Furze-Wren is a tiny, short-winged, long-tailed bird, nesting, as its name denotes, in furze-bushes ; and, for a bird of the open, it is of singularlyskulking habits. It also frequents reed-beds. Itcreeps about bushes like the Common Wren in searchof its insect-food, sometimes ap
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . UIEC Q mI-w111 DC o z 111 Q _1O CO(O a: HI _i OQIT< QcrO11. t-cc<a WRENS. 139 on the inner parts of the branches of thick furze-bushes. Distribution.—Southernmost counties of England,and some of the south-eastern and midland coun-ties. The Furze-Wren is a tiny, short-winged, long-tailed bird, nesting, as its name denotes, in furze-bushes ; and, for a bird of the open, it is of singularlyskulking habits. It also frequents reed-beds. Itcreeps about bushes like the Common Wren in searchof its insect-food, sometimes appearing suddenly abovecover, as if thrown up into the air from below, butafter short, jerky fluttering it drops again intohiding. When perching it clings to the top of areed or the tip of a furze-shoot, and is never stillfor a moment. As it flits from the top of one bushto that of another the short wings beat rapidly, andthe flight is dipping, the tail being fanned as the birdalights. If not seen, the Furze-Wren may betray itspresence by a beautifully clear Pit-tiu. or a repeated,low, scolding Oha! Spri
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