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Casual records. — Two nests have been found near Augusta, Ga. ; 

 at Point Pelee, Ontario, specimens were taken in April of 1909 and 

 1917; one was collected at Appin, Ontario, on December 13, 1898; 

 at Alton, N. H. a bird was shot on April 25, 1900 ; one was recorded 

 at New Hamburg, Pa., on January 1, 1891; it was recorded on De- 

 cember 22, 1890, at Washington, D. C, and there are several records of 

 occurrence there from March to November but no record of breeding. 



Egg dates. — California : 120 records, March 26 to June 18 ; 60 rec- 

 ords, April 17 to May 13, indicating the height of the season. 



Lower California : 7 records, April 11 to May 21. 



Missouri : 5 records, March 28 to June 17. 



Texas: 106 records, March 17 to July 22; 54 records, April 8 to 

 May 10. 



Washington : 23 records, March 29 to June 27 ; 12 records, April 25 

 to May 4 . 



West Virginia : 9 records, April 15 to June 8. 



THRYOMANES BEWICKII ALTUS Aldrich 

 APPALACHIAN BEWICK'S WREN 



One more race, an eastern one, is added to the long list of sub- 

 species of this plastic species, to which Dr. John W. Aldrich (1944) 

 has given the above name. He describes it as "similar to Thryomanes 

 hewickii hewickii, but darker and more sooty (less rufescent). In 

 fresh autumnal plumage : above near mummy brown instead of Prout's 

 brown of Ridgway's 'Color Standards'. * * * There seems to be 

 no significant size difference between this race and hewickiV 



"The breeding range," says Dr. Aldrich, "extends : north to north- 

 eastern and central western Pennsylvania, and central Ohio, casually 

 to central northern Ohio; west to southwestern Ohio, southeastern 

 Kentucky, east central Tennessee, and northwestern Alabama ; south 

 to central Alabama, north central Georgia, and central South Caro- 

 lina; and east to central South Carolina, central and northeastern 

 Virginia, southern New Jersey (casually), and northeastern Penn- 

 sylvania," It winters north to near northern limit of breeding range ; 

 south to northern Florida and the Gulf coast; and west to north- 

 eastern Texas." 



THRYOMANES BEWICKI CRYPTUS Oberhoher 



TEXAS WREN 



HABITS 



The wrens of this group, ranging from Kansas through Texas to 

 Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, in Mexico, have been given the above 

 name. The subspecies is described by Eidgway (1904) as "similar to 



