Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

ROCK WREN.

715. Salpinctes obsoletus. 6 inches.

Range.—Western coasts from British America to Mexico. These bird are equally at home on the mountain sides or in the deep canyons, building their nests in the crevices of rocks or stumps, where they lay from five to eight white eggs, with fine spots of brown about the larger end (.72 × .50).