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served a male on February 19, 1875, and again on March 16 of 

 the same year. The weather was cold at the time, thermome- 

 ter 4 degrees below zero. Mr. W. E. Cram ('99) also records 

 one seen at Hampton Falls in late December, 1897, and a Mr. 

 J. H. Johnson ('92) records one seen in "central New Hamp- 

 shire" on Nov. 25, Dec. 5 and Dec. 12, 1892. Throughout 

 the northern part of the state, the bird is common as a summer 

 resident in suitable localities. In the White Mountains it is 

 common along all the little forest brooks up to their very 

 sources. Thus in Tuckerman's Ravine, and at the head of the 

 Great Gulf on Mt. Washington, a few are to be found among 

 the scrub, where the mountain streamlets keep the mossy ground 

 saturated, so high up as 4,500 feet. To the south of the White 

 Mountains it breeds here and there at the lower elevations as 

 where, on the northern exposures of hills, a growth of balsam 

 and spruce forms a cold swamp or borders a dashing mountain 

 stream. In such localities, the bird is not uncommon about 

 Newfound Lake. Mr. C. F. Goodhue ('77a, p. 33) also notes 

 a male in full plumage and song taken on South Kearsage, 

 June 22, 1875. Mr. Ralph Hoffmann has once observed the 

 bird at Marlow in the summer of 1900, and Mr. G. H. Thayer 

 writes me that it breeds sparingly in the woods of Mt. Monad- 

 nock. In the Carter Mountains, about the lakelets in the 

 Notch, it is not unusual to hear half a dozen birds singing from 

 the dense forest round about, or from the wooded cliffs above. 

 Long before daylight, their songs break the morning stillness, 

 as one bird after another takes up the melody. Here they stay 

 on their breeding grounds until at least the middle of Septem- 

 ber at which date I have heard occasional birds still singing in 

 the early morning about the Carter lakes (3,360 feet). 

 Dates: April 5 to November 15 (Winter). 



2.39. Cistothorus stellaris (Licht.). Short-billed 

 Marsh Wren. 



A rare and local summer resident in the southeastern part of 

 the state. Mr. H. M. Spelman ('82) was the first to record the 

 bird's breeding in the state. He found at Rye Beach on the 

 24th of August, 1882, some half a dozen birds inhabiting a 



