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Show WRENS SING A REQUIEM. How the Birds Mourn the Locs of a you know that wrens sing a requiem hold n funeral service over their dead?" said n gardener. "I myself my-self once saw a requiem In progress. It was an early morning In May, and an unusual twittering outsldo my window win-dow caused mo to get up. I saw, under un-der tho eaves, two curious festoons hanging from tho room. The festoons wcro two Kemt-clrclcs composed of Wrens wrens to tho number of 20 or 25, that clung to one another with foot and wing. Thus thoy hung for two or three mlndtcs, and all tho while they twittered mournfully. Then suddenly, thoy broke loose and flew away. On going down I found a dead wren'' lying Just under tho window over which tho birds, In their strange cluster, had so sadly twittered. A naturalist to whom I described this episode said that what I had witnessed wit-nessed was called the 'wren's requiem,' re-quiem,' an established fact, though a thing very rarely seen." Philadelphia i.edger |