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middle Savannah Valley, says: "In many places throughout the 

 valley, cypress and hardwood have been logged out, leaving behind 

 scattered deciduous trees and a vast array of stumps about four feet 

 in height which are overgrown with matted vines and brambles and 

 a fairly thick growth of ground-loving and creeping plants, in- 

 cluding many ferns. Here the Winter Wren spends his sojourn." 

 M. G. Vaiden, of Rosedale, Miss., writes to me that this wren seems 

 to be from "fairly to very common here during winter in suitable 

 localities, such as dry open woods." Throughout the other Gulf 

 States and northern Florida, the winter wren frequents mainly the 

 brushy woodlands and is very quiet and retiring in its habits. While 

 Arthur H. Howell (1924) was hunting geese on an island near Muscle 

 Shoals, "one of these little wrens also spent the day there, dodging 

 about in a pile of brush and running in and out of a log pile. He 

 scarcely moved 10 feet all day and often came within 3 or 4 feet 

 of" Mr. Howell's face without showing any signs of alarm. 



DISTKIBTJnON 



Range. — In America from just north of latitude 60° south almost to 

 the southern limits of the United States. 



Breeding range. — The winter wren breeds north to Alaska (Aleu- 

 tian Islands, Pribilofs, and Kodiak Island) ; southern Mackenzie 

 (Great Slave Lake) ; southern Manitoba (Hillside Beach) ; northern 

 Ontario (Lac Seul, Moose Factory, and Lake Abitibi, probably) ; 

 southern Quebec (upper St. Maurice River and Godbout) ; and New- 

 foundland (Bard Harbor). East to Newfoundland (Bard Harbor 

 and Nicholsville) ; Nova Scotia (Halifax and Seal Island) ; northern 

 Massachusetts (Winchendon) ; Rhode Island (Kingston) ; New York 

 (Adirondack and Catskill Mountains) ; and through the mountains 

 to northern Georgia (Brasstown Bald). South to northern Georgia 

 (Brasstown Bald) ; western Maryland (Accident) ; northern Michi- 

 gan (Douglas Lake, Blaney, and Palmer) ; northern Minnesota 

 (Onamia and Cass Lake) ; northwestern Montana (Flathead Lake) ; 

 northern Idaho (Coeur d'Alene) ; and southern California (Porters- 

 ville). West to California (Portersville) and north through the 

 Sierra Nevada and the coastal ranges of California, Oregon, Wash- 

 ington, and British Columbia to Alaska (Aleutian and Pribilof 

 Islands). 



Winter range. — The winter range is discontinuous. The western 

 range extends north to southeastern Alaska (Craig and Juneau cas- 

 ually) ; and southern British Columbia (Comox and Okanagan Land- 

 ing). East to southern British Columbia (Okanagan Landing) 

 through western Washington (Olympia and Camas) ; western Oregon 



