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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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sides barred with brown, as are the under tail-coverts. Length 4i- inches, extent of wings 5;-; bill along the ridge \, along thegap ;; tarsus §-, middle toe yg-. Adult Female. The female scarcely differs from the male in external appearance. Young Birds. The young are of a lighter brown, more indistinctly barred, but resemblethe old birds in the general distribution of their colouring. This species differs from the Winter Wren chiefly in having the bill alittle stouter, the tail considerably longer, and the under parts less distinctlybarred. WINTER WREN. -(-Troglodytes hyemalis, Vieill.PLATE CXXI.—Male, Female, and Young. The extent of the migratory movements of this diminutive bird, iscertainly the most remarkable fact connected with its history. At theapproach of winter it leaves its northern retreats, perhaps in Labrador orNewfoundland, crosses the inlets of the Gulf of St. Lawrence on tiny con-cave wings, and betakes itself to warmer regions, where it remains until the PI 121.
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