110 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 61. 



things iuto the wagon. Eight were seen October 14, 190G. Of course 

 none have been seen during the August trips. 



191. *C!stotliorus stellaris. — Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



I\Iay 14, 1905, Saunders found a small colony of about half a dozen 

 birds in the marsh bordering the dyke and secured one specimen. 

 Frequent search since has failed to reveal the species again, but, as 

 it is extremely local in distribution and retiring in habit, it could 

 be easily overlooked in the vast extent of marsh to be surveyed. 



192. '^Tehitatodiftcs palitslris. — Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



A common species on all the marshes. They had hardly arrived in 

 force May 13, 1905, nor the 21st of the same month of the succeeding 

 year. May 31, 1907, however, they were present in numbers, and 

 May 1-3, 1908, Swales found a number that had been driven out of 

 their low lands by the high water up into the bushes among the tree 

 trunks of the higher levels, where they conducted themselves in the 

 xuiaccustomed habitat much after the manner of Winter Wrens. We 

 have found them more or less common, though secretive, and rather 

 hard to find on all fall visits. Then they seem partial to most cir- 

 cumscribed areas of marsh, and keep well down in the cat-tails, sel- 

 dom venturing far in flight and uttering but the most commonplace 

 and noncommital notes. Our latest date is October 15, 1906, when 

 six were observed, though Gardner reported the presence of Wrens 

 in the marsh several times during the winter of 1906-07. However 

 the specific designation of these winter Wrens remains in doubt. 



193. *CertJna familiaris amerlcana. — Brown Creeper. 



Not noted in the spring until 1908, owing to the lateness of 

 date of our visits. May 1 of the above year one was observed, and 

 at least fifteen the 3d. Not noted the fall of 1905, until September 

 15, when one was seen and another the next day, the date of our de- 

 parture. In 1908 the species put in an appearance September 17, 

 and from then on until we left, the 21st, from three to eight were 

 listed each day. They were common October 15, 1900, and even more 

 numerous the 29th of the same month the previous year. Probably 

 some remain through the winter. 



194. *>^iita caroUncnsis. — White-breasted Nuthatch. 



This species, though met with on nearly all visits, has never been 

 very common. Usually a few scattered individuals have made the 

 day's record. Our date of greatest abundance was October 14, 1906, 

 when ten were listed. Likely but few breed on the Point as our May 

 dates are meager. Our fall dates are conflicting, but seem to indi- 

 cate that the migrants arrive irregularly from the last of August to 

 the middle of September. 



