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tober 6. Vermont — St. Johnsbury, October 2. Massachusetts — Bos- 

 ton, October 18. Connecticut — Hartford, October 14. New York — 

 Rochester, September 21. New Jersey — Elizabeth, October 30. 

 Pennsylvania — Berwyn, October 20. District of Columbia — Wash- 

 ington, October 23. West Virginia — Bluefield, October 13. Vir- 

 ginia — Lexington, October 6. 



Some early dates of fall arrival are : North Carolina — Piney Creek, 

 September 3. Georgia — Athens, September 15. Florida — Pensa- 

 cola, October 6. Arkansas — Delight, September 23. Louisiana — 

 New Orleans, October 8. Texas — Corpus Christi, October 7. 



Some light on the individual migrations of house wrens may be 

 gathered from the following records of banded birds : Banded at Ka- 

 tonah, N. Y., September 14, 1937, and taken at Palma Sola, Fla., No- 

 vember 18, 1937; banded at East Lansing, Mich., May 17, 1937, re- 

 covered at Eockledge, Fla., May 11, 1938 ; banded at Notre Dame, Ind., 

 June 13, 1931, recovered at Moultrie, Ga., December 11, 1931; banded 

 at South Bend, Ind., June 20, 1930, and caught at Ardmore, Ala., 

 January 18, 1931; banded at Zion, 111., July 10, 1931, and killed near 

 Baxley, Ga., November 1, 1931. 



Casual records. — The house wren has been recorded casually at 

 Kispiox, British Columbia, where a specimen was collected on June 2, 

 1921 ; and at Fort St. John where one was observed June 18, 1943 ; at 

 Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, on May 20, 1904 ; one observed near The Pas, 

 Manitoba, on September 26, 1942; another observed near Churchill, 

 Manitoba, on June 21, 1944; and at Kamouraska, Quebec, it was 

 recorded for the first time on June 19, 1939. 



Egg dates. — California : 119 records, April 11 to June 26 ; 65 records. 

 May 1 to May 20, indicating the height of the season. 



Colorado: 22 records, May 26 to July 10; 12 records, June 3 to 

 June 15. 



Illinois : 32 records, May 10 to July 27 ; 14 records, May 10 to May 

 30 ; 10 records, June 5 to June 20. 



Montana : 12 records, June 5 to June 30. 



Ontario : 13 records. May 29 to July 23. 



Virginia: 13 records. May 15 to July 10; 6 records. May 21 to 

 May 29. 



TROGLODYTES AEDON PARKMANII Aadabon 



WESTERN HOUSE WREN 



Plate 28 



HABITS 



Audubon (1841a) named this wren after his friend Dr. George Park- 

 man, of Boston, considering it a distinct species. It has since been 

 shown to intergrade with the eastern house wren. Its range includes 

 most of the western United States and southern western Canada. It 



