. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . s, north to southern New Hampshire, southern(Ontario, southern Michigan and southern Manitoba, and west to the Plains,winters in South Atlantic and Gulf States. Description.—Adult: .Above everywhere streaked or larred with blackish,ochraceous, and white; a little clearer ochraceous on hind neck; wings and tailheavily barred, the former only on exposed webs, a very faint, pale superciliaryline; below white, clear on throat and belly, washed with ochraceous-bui¥y
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . s, north to southern New Hampshire, southern(Ontario, southern Michigan and southern Manitoba, and west to the Plains,winters in South Atlantic and Gulf States. Description.—Adult: .Above everywhere streaked or larred with blackish,ochraceous, and white; a little clearer ochraceous on hind neck; wings and tailheavily barred, the former only on exposed webs, a very faint, pale superciliaryline; below white, clear on throat and belly, washed with ochraceous-bui¥y onsides of neck, across breast, and on sides; flanks and crissum darker ochraceousor tawny; bill short, dark brown above, pale below; culmen slightly decurved;feet light brown. Recognition Marks.—Pygmy size; heavy dorsal and coronal streaking inthree shades distinctive; unbarred below as compared with preceding species;bill mvich shorter than that of the next species. Nest, near the ground, in a tussock of grass—a globe formed by bringingthe live grass-blades together, and interweaving with vegetable fibres and dried 452. 491 SHORT-BILLED MARSH COPYRIGHT 1902, BY A, W, MUMFORD. CHICAGO grasses ; lined with j)lant-do\vn : entrance in side. Eygs, 6-8, pure white, unmarked—unique in this respect in the family. Av. size, 64 x .49 ( x ). It has never been the authors good fortune to meet with this Wren butonce, and then during migrations, when close study was impossible. It is atbest a rare visitor with us, and nothing has recently come to regardingits nesting in the state. Mr. Ernest E. Thompson says, This is less a species of the deep watermarshes than is the long-billed member of the genus, and often it will be foundin places that are little more than damp meadows. It is remarkably mouse-like in habits and movements, and can be flushed only with extreme difficulty. Mr, B. T. Gault, of Glen Ellyn, 111., found this bird not uncommon inthe gr
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