. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 310 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. spiders' webs and lined with tow and soft feathers of barnyard fowls. Thee-sare usually seven to nine in number but occasioi^lly more, and are white, rather sparsely speekled round the larger end with brown. Genus Vieillot. Troglodytes aedon Vieill. House Wreu. Description {Plate 4,5). T en^th about 4^ inches ; extent about G? ; bill, legs and eyes brown, above brown, rustv on rump and tai, ; i;wer parts dull browni
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 310 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. spiders' webs and lined with tow and soft feathers of barnyard fowls. Thee-sare usually seven to nine in number but occasioi^lly more, and are white, rather sparsely speekled round the larger end with brown. Genus Vieillot. Troglodytes aedon Vieill. House Wreu. Description {Plate 4,5). T en^th about 4^ inches ; extent about G? ; bill, legs and eyes brown, above brown, rustv on rump and tai, ; i;wer parts dull brownish-Mhite or grayish-wlnte ; more or ess^aved rifarreel with darker shades ; ..aek very o.,scurely or not at a 1 barred '7/r"aLEastern United States and southern Canada, .est to Indiana and Louisiana. Common summer resident. Arrives here usually about April 20, mul remains until about the Ist of October. In AVashin^ton county Messrs. Oompton,Warrick and Nease record this species as arare summer resident. The common representative of this ^roup in Washington county is_the Carolina Wren, which is found there during all months of the year. L>ur- in- the summer is found mostly about orchards and in shrubbery near AVhen migve^trng these birds are seen in woods but thev seldom breed there. The nest of twigs, wool, strings, leathers, hair, grasses, etc., is built in various odd places; holes in trees, boxes and hollow fence rails are the most usual building sites. They will build also in an old hat, the sleeves of an old coat or back ot loose weather boards on buildings. In the summer of 1888, Mr. Geo. B, Seu- nett and the writer found a nest, with four y<.ung, built in a cavity in a sand bank along the roadside. The eggs, six to nine, mostly seven, measure about .65 long by .50 wide. They are pinkish or creamy- white speckled with reddish-brown ; the brown markings are genera ly darker colored about the larger end, though the lighter giound color is often
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