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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
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cession, so loud, andyet so mellow, that it is always agreeable to listen to them. During spring,these notes are heard from all parts of the plantations, the damp woods, theswamps, the sides of creeks and rivers, as well as from the barns, the stablesand the piles of wood, within a few yards of the house. I frequently heardthese Wrens singing from the roof of an abandoned flat-boat, fastened to theshore, a small distance below the city of New Orleans. When its song wasfinished, the bird went on creeping from one board to another, thrust itselfthrough an auger-hole, entered through the boats side at one place, andpeeped out at another, catching numerous spiders and other insects all thewhile. It sometimes ascends to the higher branches of a tree of moderatesize, by climbing along a grape-vine, searching diligently amongst the leavesand in the chinks of the bark, alighting sidewise against the trunk, andmoving like a true Creeper. It possesses the power of creeping and of N? 24 PI. 117.
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v/ .,„t.„,i,n i i< .1 l,.S ^ l,itha IVinlcrt *.<v.l-liv J.T Bowcil.niifcuJ) GREAT CAROLINA WREN. H7 hopping in a nearly equal degree. The latter kind of motion it employswhen nearer the ground, and among piles of drifted timber. So fond is thisbird of the immediate neighbourhood of water, that it would be next to im-possible to walk along the shore of any of the islands of the Mississippi, fromthe mouth of the Ohio to New Orleans, without observing several on eachisland. Among the many species of insects which they destroy, several are of anaquatic nature, and are procured by them whilst creeping about the massesof drifted wood. Their chirr-up and come-to-me come-to-me seldom ceasefor more than fifteen or twenty minutes at a time, commencing with the firstglimpse of day, and continuing sometimes after sunset. The nest of the Carolina Wren is usually placed in a hole in some lowdecayed tree, or in a fence-stake, sometimes even in the sta

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