wood-wren

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  1. Either one of two small woodland birds of Europe, belonging to the subfamily Sylviinæ. The willow-warbler or willow-wren, Phylloscopus trochilus. The true wood-warbler, or yellow willow-wren, Phylloscopus sibilatrix:the preferable use of the name. The two species, though quite distinct, are much alike and often confounded. Neither is a wren in a proper sense.
  2. A supposed species of true wren, described by Audubon in 1834 as Troglodytes americanus, but not different from the common house-wren of the United States.

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  • He makes the wood-wren say, —  Luck or Cunning?
  • On the left side is the wood-wren, with —  The Children's Book of London
  • We sought in the wood, and we found the wood-wren in her stead; —  Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • "Yon wood-wren has had enough to make him sad, if only he recollects it, and if he can recollect his road from Morocco hither he maybe recollects likewise what happened on the road: the long weary journey up the Portuguese coast, and through the gap between the Pyrenees and the Jaysquivel, and up the Landes of Bordeaux, and through Brittany, flitting by night and hiding and feeding as he could by day; and how his mates flew against the lighthouses and were killed by hundreds, and how he essayed the British Channel and was blown back, shrivelled up by bitter blasts; and how he felt, nevertheless, that 'that was water he must cross,' he knew not why; but something told him that his mother had done it before him, and he was flesh of her flesh, life of her life, and had inherited her instinct (as we call hereditary memory in order to avoid the trouble of finding out what it is and how it comes). —  Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
 

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