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small fresh-water meadow about a mile from the sea. He also 

 states that Mr. William Brewster found the bird in 1872, about 

 five miles farther inland from this locality. Mr. Wi E. Cram 

 writes me that at Hampton Falls a few miles south of Rye Beach, 

 the bird breeds in a swamp in the western part of the town. 

 Mr. F. W. Batchelder ( : 00, p. 136) records further that at 

 Manchester, in 1899, a nest was found in the Cohas Brook- 

 meadows. Still more recently in 1902, Mr. G. H. Thayer has 

 discovered a pair of these wrens in a certain grassy swamp at 

 an elevation of slightly over a thousand feet at Dublin. 

 Throughout June the male was often seen singing, and on 

 August 5th an old nest was found. Elsewhere in the state, I 

 have no knowledge of its presence, save at Intervale where I 

 shot an immature female specimen on September 15, 1898, as it 

 was hopping about among some corn growing on the Saco 

 meadows. The bird must have been a migrant, but its pres- 

 ence so far north as this valle3' in the mountains must be ex- 

 ceptional. It is now in the Howe-Shattuck collection, No. 936. 

 Dates : May 23 to October 4. 



240. Certhia f amiliaris americana (Bonap.). Brown 

 Creeper. 



A permanent resident, confined during the breeding season 

 to the thick coniferous woods of the Canadian faunal area, 

 where, however, it is rarely common, though of general distri- 

 bution. As a winter resident, it is fairly common throughout 

 the lower parts of the state. Among the White Mountains it 

 occurs in summer at least as high as 4, too feet where I have 

 seen it among the small timber in Tuckerman's Ravine. Mr. 

 William Brewster ('79b) has given a good account of the nest- 

 ing habits of this species about Eake Umbagog where it breeds 

 not uncommonly in the deep woods, eggs being found from May 

 31 to June 23. At Intervale, I have usually found a pair or two 

 among the big pines at about 525 feet. A few also regularly 

 breed in the hill country in the western part of the state. Mr. 

 G. H. Thayer writes me that it breeds sparingly on Mt. Monad- 

 nock above 1,500 feet. I have found a few birds in winter so 

 high as 3,000 feet in the Carter Mountains. 



