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wooded localities, expepting coniferous forests, were his chosen abode, 

 and where he was equally at home in the cottonwoods of the river 

 valleys, or the aspens just below the tinil)er-line on lofty mountains, 

 lie was there everywhere the same quick, saucy little fellow, and in 

 the spring and summer an incessant and voluble songster. 



The following very interesting notes regarding the length of time 

 required for the bringing forth of a brood of this species, were com- 

 municated to Professor Baird by Col. S. T. Walker, of Milton, 

 Florida : 



"In looking over an old mcniurandum book the other day, I came 

 across the following notes made in IHCtt;, concerning the nesting of 

 the House Wren. I was sick at the time, and watched the whole 

 proceeding, from the laying of the first stii-k to the conclusion. 

 The nest was placed in one of the pigeon-holes of my desk, and 

 the birds effected an entrance to the room through sundry cracks 

 in the log cabin. 



"Nest begun April loth 



"Nest completed and first egg laid April '27th 



"Last egg laid May 3d 



"Began inculiation May 4th 



"Hatching completed May 18th 



"Young began to Hy May '27th 



"Young left the nest June 1st 



"Total time occupied 47 days." 



Subgenus Auorthoura Rennie. 

 Troglodytes hyemalis Vitill. 



WINTER WREN. 



Popular synonyms— Biinty Wren; Little Lor Wren. 



SuloiM iToolndulm WrLfl. Am. Orn. i. isns, l:». pi. S. fie. 6 (not of Lixx.). 

 Annrlhnra troglodutes CouES, Key. IS72. 87. 

 Trog'Mdule.t hueouiU.i ViEii.i-. Nouv. Diet. N. H. x.xxlv, 1819, ."i».— Sw. i Ricn. F. B. A. 



11. 18:il. ;il8.— AUD. Orn. BIok. iv. 18«. 4Si). pi, 3(i0; Synop. lK:i'.),76; B. Am. 11. 1841, 128, 



pi, 121.— NuTT. Man. 'Jd od. 1. 1840. 481.— Baikd, B. N. Am. 1858, 369: Cat. N. Am. 185!>. 



No. 27;t: Review. 1864, 144. 

 Troglodvtfs europirus NlTTT. Man. 1, 1832. 427 (not of Leach). 



AnnrUaira trnglndules var. Iiyi'niali.t Cot'es. Key. 1672, ,151; Check List, 1873, No. 50. 

 TyogUtdulff parruliis var. hufnialin B. B. & R. Hist N. Am. B. I, 1874, 155, pi. 9, Uc 9. 

 Anorthura Iroolodulfn Uwrnnlix Bmow. Nom. N. Am. B. l&ll, No. 65,— CouES, 2d Cbecli 



List, 1882, No. 76 ChiertuxiU.') 



