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from Jasper, October 10, 1901 ; from Kansas City, October 8, 

 1902; from New Haven, October 6, 1902; Mt. Carmel, Oc- 

 tober 6, 1885; Independence, October 6, 1901; St. Louis, Octo- 

 ber 6, 1905, and October 14, 1906. 



722. Olbiorchilus hiemalis (VieilL). Winter Wren. 



Sylvia troglodytes. Anorthura troglodytes. Troglodytes hiemalis. Trog- 

 lodytes europeus. Anorthura hyemalis. Anorthura troglodytes hyemalis. 

 Troglodytes parvulus hyemalis. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America; north to Prince Ed- 

 ward Island, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. Breeds from 

 Massachusetts, New York, northern Michigan and northern 

 Wisconsin northward, wintering from the northern states 

 to the Gulf, chiefly south of the Ohio River. Has been found 

 nesting in the Alleghanies south to North Carolina, though 

 rarely. 



In Missouri a fairly common transient visitant eastward, 

 rarer westward. (October 7, 1906, Mr. B. M. Stigall of Kansas 

 City found it common in Clay Co. and Mr. Chas. W. Tindall 

 reports it common at Independence. It is also recorded from 

 Warrensburg, January 8, 1905, by Mr. A. F. Smithson, and by 

 W. E. D. Scott, who took two in early April, 1874. As a winter 

 resident it occurs chiefly south of the Missouri River and is par- 

 ticularly numerous in the swampy woods of the southeast. 

 In north Missouri it has been found wintering at Mt. Carmel, 

 Audrain Co, December 14, 1884, and at the northern border 

 near Keokuk, February 17, 1899. In the city and county of St. 

 Louis its wintering has repeatedly been observed, even in severe 

 winters, where it comes to the wood pile on the farm and even 

 to the yards in the city. It begins to leave its southern winter 

 home in the latter part of March, and migration through the 

 state lasts till the middle of April in the southern, and to the 

 end of the month and first week of May in the northern part of 

 the state. In fall migration the first appear at Keokuk some- 

 times as early as the middle of September (September 16, 1900, 

 September 17, 1893); but at St. Louis not before the first of 

 October. Transients are oftenest met with between October 

 5 and 20, after which winter numbers only remain. At Shannon 

 Co. in southern Missouri the species was first noted October 

 15, 1904, by Mr. W. B. Savage of Monteer and by Mr. E. S. Wood- 

 ruff as late as April 3, 1907, near Ink. 



