Identifier: birdsofgreatbrit01butler (find matches)
Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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eggs are almost identical: he admitsthat they are Timeliine in their habits, skulking in underwood, and wdthoutundulation in their flight. Doubtless the affinities of the Wren are rather Timeliine than Parine; butmost students of British Birds are not familiar with Bulbuls, Shamas, and thelike; moreover, if they were, they would probably fail to see any resemblancebetween the long-tailed, stout-billed, conical-crested Persian, or Red-vented Bulbuls,fand our stumpy little cock-tailed Wren, whilst the cave-like nest of the latter, ifit be an argument in favour of the affinity of the Dipper to the Wrens, must alsoargue against the close relationship of the Bulbuls to the latter birds. The most convenient plan, therefore, seems to be that adopted by Mr. HowardSaunders—to regard the Wrens as a Family rather than a Subfamily. * Cataloj;ue of Birds, vol. VI, p. l8o. f The crests of these birds are not ragged, as usually shown iu illustrations, but Ibrui a regularunbroken line at the back.
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The Wren. 169 Family— TROGLODYTID.^. The Wren. Troglodytes parvulus, KoCH. OCCURS throughout Europe up to 65° N. lat. in Scandinavia and NorthRussia, occurring in Morocco and Algeria, also in the Caucasus, NorthernPersia, Asia Minor, and Northern Palestine. In Great Britain it is generally distributed and resident; but, as with manymore resident species, its numbers are greatl)^ added to in the autumn byimmigration. The adult male has the upper surface rich rufous brown, the crown and napeappearing slightly darker; thence barred throughout with deeper brown; theprimaries brighter, their outer webs barred with pale-bufif; a buffish-white streakover the eye; under surface pale-brownish, more rufous and darker on the flanks,belly, and under tail-coverts, which are also barred with smoky-brown; bill dark-brown above, paler below; feet pale-brown; iris dark-brown. The female isslightly smaller, duller in colouring, with paler legs. Young birds are slightlymore rufous and less strongly b

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