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the advent of the En^jlish Sparrow, but " very common at Traverse City " (L. 

 W. Watkins); "abundant at Albion and St. Joseph" (O. B. Warren); "this bird 

 leaves the vicinity of our dwellings after breeding"' (L. S. Foster). This little 

 Wren nested in my whirling horse-tether box, and repaired its nest time after 

 time, as it would be destroyed by the turning of the box — there were six eggs; 

 " song loud and hearty, scolds vigorously at intrusion " (E. L. Moseley). 



Winter Wren, slightly reduced. 



318-722-(76). Troglodytes hiemalis Vieill. * Winter Wren. 



Common migrant; "transient in Monroe Co., seen oftener in spring than in 

 fall" (Jerome Trombley); "'migrant at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "very common 

 in spring, summer and fall, and occasionally in late winter, breeds " (Dr. M. 

 Gibbe); reported by S. E. White at Grand Rapids, June 11, 1891; "occasionally 

 seen in spring migrations at Bay City" (N. A. Eddy); "common at Albion, and 

 common summer resident at Palmer " (O. B. Warren); " rare at Ann Arbor " (Dr. 

 J. B. Steere); it is very rare at Lansing; "Kent Co., where it breeds, and Macki- 

 nac Island" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); rather shy; "breeds 

 in Upper Peninsula" (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); E. W. Durfee took a nest near 

 Grand Rapids; "nesting habits much as in last species" (Davie's Nests and 

 Eggs of North American Birds, p. 407); though it may nest in brush-piles, etc.; 

 nest lined with feathers; eggs four to nine, white, minutely specked with brown; 

 feeds on insects and insects' eggs. 



Genus CISTOTHORDS Cab. 



Short-billed Mareh Wren, nataral size. 



319-724-(81). Cistothorus stellaris (Licht.). * Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



Rather common; summer; "rare at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "Lenawee 

 Co." (A. H. Boies); "common in marshes at the west end of Lake Erie" (Jerome 



