FAMILY Troglodytide. 
eastern United States as far north as eastern Massachu- 
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the Palisades of the 
Hudson, thence south throughout the Gulf States, and 
west to Jowa and Illinois. It is a common permanent 
resident of Washington, D. C., and West Virginia, but a 
rare summer visitant north of these points. It is one of 
the earlier migrants of spring, and on April 9, 1918, it was 
reported from the shores of Buzzards Bay, Mass. 
The loud and cheery song of the Carolina Wren is rather 
extraordinary for sosmalla bird. It somewhat resembles 
in its trisyllabic form the song of the Maryland Yellow- 
throat, but there the similarity ceases for the voice of the 
Wren is clear and musical whereas that of the Yellow- 
throat is almost toneless and certainly lacks melodic dis- 
tinction. For example, a Maryland Yellow-throat singing 
in Blair, New Hampshire, July, 1919, gave me a four- 
syllabled song for many days in succession, which after 
study and some hesitation I considered not a monotone, 
thus: 
Moderato; Thrice 8va 
ny Key of A minor. 
a 
. l@e8 |\92.8 
aye tt te tit et it 
NSF Es a pide aaa on GT fp 
Geta penny, Get a penny, etc. 
Yet a similarly four-syllabled song in exactly the same 
locality July, 1908, was certainly composed of three mixed 
tones, thus: 
Moderato, Thrice 8va_.--... 
() 
of ag ra 
VP OO J00/@ '@ 8 | 
fee fs ena) fe 2) ei 
aaa eS Dr [24 
Dont yor doit, dont you doit, dont you 
Now that vagueness of tonality, or rather what might be 
called musical indecision, does not obtain in the song of 
the Carolina Wren, there is a definite and emphatic swing 
from one note to another, and the three syllables are given 
in different tones whether these are in accurate pitch or 
not. There is no doubt about the burden of this Wren’s 
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