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70-i. CATBIRD, Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linn.) 



We found several families of tiie catbird near our camp at 

 Crow Creek, one nest containing three helpless young and an 

 infertile egg. The low crooning of the catbird was frequently 

 heard in the thickets, and occasionally the louder recitals at 

 daybreak. At our camp near Poison we found it to be one of 

 the common visitors to the haw thickets, and it is very proba- 

 ble that nests were in the adjacent shrubbery. 



Regular summer residents near the Station. Nests were 

 found on the Helena Club grounds and in the shrubbery bor- 

 dering Daphnia Pond. N'o notes were made concerning its 

 occuri'ence in August. 



?21 b. WESTERN HOUSE WREN, Troglodytes aedon aztecus 



Baird. 



Not uncommon on bushy hillsides near the Station. It was 

 regularly noted in June, and notes were made regarding its 

 presence in August. 



715. ROCK WREN, Salpindes ohsoMus (Say.) 



The rock wren Avas regularly noted at Selish, where it in- 

 habited the rocky mountain-side east of the Jocko River bot- 

 tom. No specimen was taken. 



722. WINTER WREN, Troglodytes hiemalis Vieill. 



The dark shades of the arbor vitae forest at the head of Sin- 

 yale-a-min I^ake, through which the inlet dashes in its tortuous 

 course, is peculiarly suitable to the desires of the winter wren. 

 There is whiles away its hours in happy content, pouring forth 

 with astonishing persistency its little roundelay of song, and 

 whirring from one side of the stream to the other at fancy^s 

 impulse. As in the case with the American dipper, we searched 

 for a nest of this diminutive songster of the brookside. With 

 equal result we tried to secure a specimen without its falling 

 into the hurrying water. There is no doubt, however, that 

 the winter wren is a regular summer resident at this place, 

 rearing its young undisturbed by wandering collectors, and 

 making melody unlieard except by occasional visitors to the 

 falls. 



