304 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



297 [705] Toxostoma rufum (Linn.). 

 Brown Thrasher ; Brown Thrush. 



Common summer resident ; (April 6) May i to October i (October 26). 



Eggs: May 22 to June 21. 



Brown Thrashers are local in their distribution, and although I used to find 

 them commonly in the scrubby fields back of Coffin's Beach in the late seventies, 

 I never found them at Magnolia. They are common in most parts of the 

 County where there are overgrown pastures and there are many such. Near 

 the sea at Ipswich they are more common than the Catbird. 



298 [718] Thryothorus ludovicianus (Lath.). 

 Carolina Wren. 



Accidental visitor from the south. 



Dr. T. M. Brewer ^ gives the only record of this bird for the County. He 

 wrote : " My friend, Mr. Geo. O. Welch, secured a fine specimen of Thryothonis 

 ludovicianus in Lynn, on the 6th of July [1878]. The imprudent stranger ven- 

 tured within an easy range of his work-room window, in the very heart of the 

 city, and now remains as tangible evidence of its right to a place on the list of 

 the birds of this State as well as New England." The specimen is now in the 

 collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



Since then there have been a number of other records for the State but 

 none from Essex County, although it has been taken farther north at Rye 

 Beach by Mr. H. M. Spelman. 



299 [721] Troglodytes aedon Vieill. 



House Wren. 



Uncommon and local summer resident ; May 8 to September 2 5 . 

 Eggs: June 5. 



IT. M. Brewer: Bull. Nuttall Cm. Club, vol. 3, p. 193, 1878. 



