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and Ducks, have done this, but the smaller ones, amongst 

 which are the wrens, occasionally become disabled and have 

 been secured. I have found a few in very open, genial 

 autumns, remaining until after the 15th of October. 



Presumptively, these constitute a considerable portion of 

 those reportod to me as belonging to the type species. 



They are reported as abundant in every wooded section 

 heard from and very common in the cities of St. Paul and 

 Minneapolis as I have myself observed them. Mr. Washburn 

 found them abundant everywhere in the Red river valley, as 

 Dr. Hvoslef also gives them at Lanesboro. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Similar in size to T. aedo7o, with a light line over the eye, &c. ; 

 the colors however grayer, the upper parts dark brown, the 

 lower grayish white, with little or none of the rufous tinge of 

 particular regions, as seen in the other. 



Length, 5; wing 2.10; tail, 2. 



Habitat, western North America eastward to Manitoba, 

 Minnesota, &c. 



TROGLODYTES HIEMALIS Vieillot. (722.) 

 WINTER WREN. 



A regular winter visitant, reaching this latitude where I re- 

 reside variously from the 20th of December to the middle of Jan- 

 uary. It is never abundant, but it is not very unf requently seen 

 in winter. Occasionally obtained in the logging camps during 

 the severest weather, and I have found it within three hours 

 ride of the city on several occasions, one of which was in De- 

 cember, and another in February. It has also been taken by 

 several persons in the southern part of the State, making it 

 presumptive that it extends its migrations much further south. 

 Dr. Hvoslef has seen and obtained it in Fillmore county during 

 successive winters. I believe they all leave by or before the 

 first of March. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill very straight, slender, conical, and shorter than the 

 head. Tail considerably shorter than the wings which reach 

 to its middle. Upper parts reddish brown, becoming brighter 

 to the rump and tail; transverse bars of dusky, and of lighter 

 everywhere except on the head and upper part of the back; 

 scapulars and wing coverts with spots of white; beneath pale 

 reddish-brown, barred on the posterior half of the body with 



