208 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



TROGLODYTIDAE. 



R. I. — Occasional visitor in summer and fall, and rare summer 

 resident (at Middletown). April 9-Xov. 28. Eggs, April 15. 



Conn. — Occasional visitor at all seasons and rare resident (near 

 Bridgeport, Chester, South Norwalk). Eggs, July 16. 



379. Thryomanes bewickii (Audubon) Ridgway. 



Bewick's wren. 



Ridgway, Bull. 50, U. S. nat. mus., 1904, pt. 3, p. 552. 



Troglodytes bewickii Aud., Ornith. biogr., 1831, vol. 1, p. 96, 

 pi. 18. "about five miles from St. Fraxcisville, .... Louis- 

 iana." 



Brush piles, orchards, and vicinity of outbuildings; nests in 

 cavities of trees or buildings. 



Me. — Doubtfully recorded (Seguin Id., Oct. 6). 

 N. H — Accidental visitor: Alton, April 25, 1890. 



380. Troglodytes aedon Vieillot. 

 House wren. 



Vieill., Hist. nat. ois. Amer. Sept., 1807, vol. 2, p. 52, pi. 107. 

 "Canada, ... .Nouvelle-Ecosse." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1841, vol. 2, ]>. 125, pi. 120. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 2, figs. 12, 13. 



Brush piles, orchards, and vicinity of outbuildings; nests in 

 hollow limbs, bird boxes, or any convenient crevice. 



Me. — Uncommon local summer resident (to Caribou). May 

 8-Aug. 



N. H. — Uncommon summer resident becoming rare among 

 White Mt. valleys. May 18-Sept. 24. 



Vt. — Uncommon summer resident. May 11— fall. 



Mass.— Locally common summer resident. (April 24) May 1- 

 Oct. 30. Eggs, May 25-June 5. 



R. I. — Locally common summer resident; formerly more 

 common. April 26-Sept. Eggs, May 21-27. 



Conn. — Common summer resident. April 25-Oct. 30. 



