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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



took a nest in 1892. beneath the roots of a fallen tree, with six eggs in it; 

 "northern counties of Indiana" (Butler's Birds of Indiana); said to breed at 



Carolina Wren. 



nearly all seasons. We have never seen it here. J. B. Purdy says it does not 

 breed at Plymouth. 



316-7 19-(71). Thryothorus bewickii (Aud.). Bewick's Wren. 



"Very rare, in spring" (Dr. M. Gibbs); very rare; "summer resident in Monroe 

 Co., where it has nested three years in a bird box, identification certain " (Jerome 

 Trombley); "rare, but several taken in Kalamazoo Co." (Dr. M. Gibbs); we have 

 never taken this here, and J. B. Purdy says the same of Plymouth. 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vieill. 



317-721-(74). Troglodytes aiedoii {Vieill). House Wren. 



Very common in some localities; April to October; "abundant at Grand Rapids" 

 (E. B. Boies); "becoming rare at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "not rare at Ann 

 Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "not seen in Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); 

 "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); "very common at Palmer, Marquette 

 Co., where it nests in shaft houses, one a few feet from where the ship 

 dumped a ton of ore each raise. The great noise seemed no' disturbance to the 

 Wren" (O. B. Warren); "common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); "not 

 uncommon on Keweenaw Point" (E. W. Durfee); breeds; nests in holes in 

 trees and stumps; " extensively in lumber piles, which line the Saginaw river for 

 miles on either side" (N. A. Eddy); in niches under porches, boxes, etc.. in 

 June, occasionally second time in August; Mr. Robert H. Wolcott found a nest 

 with fresh eggs at New Baltimore July 29, 1893; eggs four to ten, white, thickly 

 specked with reddish brown. This bird is very rare at Lansing, especially since 



