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The Carolina wren breeds north to southeastern Nebraska (Supe- 

 rior) ; southern Iowa (Des Moines and Sigourney) ; southern Michi- 

 gan (Ann Arbor and Detroit) ; southern Ontario (Point Pelee, Lon- 

 don, and Toronto) ; southern Connecticut (Bridgeport, New Haven, 

 and Chester) ; southern Rhode Island (Middletown) ; and southeastern 

 Massachusetts (Naushon). From this line the Carolina Wren is 

 found in all the States south to Florida, the Gulf coast and Jiortheast- 

 ern Mexico; Tamaulipas (Ciudad Victoria) ; Nuevo Leon (Monterrey, 

 Santa Catarina, and Linares) ; and Coahuila (Sabinas). West to 

 Coahuila (Sabinas) ; central Texas (Nueces, Mason, and Abilene) ; 

 Oklahoma (Wichita Mountains and Fort Reno) ; central Kansas 

 (Wichita and Clearwater); and southeastern Nebraska (Superior). 



The range of the Carolina wren seems to be extending northward, 

 since there are a number of records of its occurrence north to South 

 Dakota (Yankton County) ; Minnesota (Bigstone Lake and Minne- 

 apolis) ; Wisconsin (Madison and New London) ; Michigan (Grand 

 Rapids and Sand Point) ; southern New Hampshire (Alst^ad and 

 Rye Beach) ; and southeastern Maine (Falmouth). 



The above outline is for the entire species, which has been divided 

 into four subspecies or geographic races. The Carolina wren {T. I. 

 ludomcianus) ranges south to central Texas, the Gulf States, and 

 northern Florida; the Florida wren {T. I. miamensis) is found in the 

 peninsula of Florida from Levy and Putnam Counties southward; 

 Burleigh's Carolina wren {T. I. hurleighi) is found at Cat, Ship, and 

 Horn Islands, Miss.; the Lomita wren [T. I. lomitensis) is found in 

 the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and northern Tamaulipas, 

 Mexico. Other races occur in Mexico. 



Casual records. — The Carolina wren has been observed in Burling- 

 ton, Vt., from July 10 to October 5, 1936; at Center Ossipee, N. H., on 

 August 21, 1940; one observed on June 21, 1916, at Beaver Pond, 

 Maine; and there is one record of breeding in Maine, eggs taken at 

 Norway Lake in June 1893. 



Egg dates. — Florida: 44 records, April 1 to June 24; 24 records, 

 April 17 to May 6, indicating the height of the season. 



Georgia : 33 records, April 5 to July 3 ; 17 records. May 2 to June 15. 



Pennsylvania : 8 records, April 8 to July 22. 



Texas : 39 records, March 13 to July 9 ; 20 records, April 10 to May 3. 



THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS BURLEIGHI Lowery 



BURLEIGH'S CAROLINA WREN 



In naming and describing this island race, George H. Lowery, Jr. 

 (1940) , says that it is "similar to T. I. ludovicianus (Latham) to which 

 it is most closely related, but differs in being somewhat duller and 

 more sooty above and averaging slightly paler below; color of the 

 pileum not a great deal duller than the back ; barring of the tail less 



