176 The Wh.son Bulletin, No. 72-73. 



lueruus enou<j;li to dare breeding about biimaii babitations, but each 

 spring it is heard singing in Oberlin. Three pairs regularly nest 

 in the Vermilion river gorge at Birmingham. 



2o5. Tliri/oiiKiiies heicickii. — Bewick's Wren. 



May 22, li)09, one was heard singing at Berlin Heights by Rev. 

 W. L. Dawson and tlie writer. There are other conjectural records, 

 one for Elyria and one for Oberlin, but on neither occasion were 

 the circumstances suHiciently favorable to warrant positive state- 

 ments. 



2P,(i, Trofilodtites aedon. — House Wren. 



A common summer resident in orchards, but much less common 

 in woods and about barns in town. The median date of arrival is 

 April 24. It seems to leave the vicinity of its nesting places rather 

 early in September, l)ut I found it in considerable numbers along 

 the marsh border of the sand spit as late as October 15, 1906, 

 There it was acting so much like a Winter Wren or one of the 

 marsh wrens that one had to be sacrificed to make identification 

 satisfactory. There is no bird more useful in an orchard than one 

 of these wrens, and owners of orchards will do well to either leave 

 hollow limits for them to use. or supply 1 .oxos or other receptacles 

 in which they may build 



237. \ (I nil IIS ]iic 1)1 alis.^-Vi' inter Wren. 



Of regular occurrence in winter, but irregular in its fall arrival. 

 My dates range from September 14 to October 18 for firsts. The 

 median date of spring departure is May 8, but the latest record 

 is May 17, 1898. The bird seems to prefer an old brush heap or a 

 fallen log which is partly covered with brush and vines, or is hol- 

 low. On the sand spit it is found near the marsh border among 

 the bushes. I have never found it there in the dead of winter. It 

 sings sweetly in its brushy retreat in spring, or scolds in a tempest 

 of har^-h rattling calls. 



238. Cistothoriis stellaris. — Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



This little wren escaped notice until May 12, 1900, when one was 

 found in a small swamp south of Oberlin, and another one in the 

 quarry region north. Since that time it has been found in small 

 numbers in the grassy borders of the marshes at the lake, includ- 

 ing Cedar Point, all summer. It arrives about the first of May. T 

 have no fall or late summer records. As indicated, its proper 

 setting is the coarse grass which grows at the borders of marshes, 

 or in low. damp situations. 



