368 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



p. 270; Keyes and Williams, Birds of Iowa, p. 157; Goss, Birds of 

 Kansas, p. 606. 



Dr. Guy C. Rich writes from Sioux City: "The Rock Wrens 

 were here and bred for two or three years, but I have not seen 

 them now for several years. A nest of eggs were discovered on 

 June 25, 1898, badly incubated. On May 28, 1899, the birds were 

 again seen. On June i, 1899, I saw two and possibly three birds. 

 They sing a great deal. Found no nest, though. I thought them 

 to be breeding. On June 10, 1900, the birds were discovered in 

 another deep dirt-cut along railroad; no nest found. On Sep- 

 tember 15, 1901, had a bird brought in from another locality. I 

 have also seen the measurements of two birds shot June 22, 1898." 



Genus Thryothorus Vieillot. 

 Subgenus Thryothorus Vieillot. 



330. (718). T/iiyof horns /2(dovicia)ius{'L,2.ih.). Carolina Wren. 



The Carolina Wren is a large Southern species which is very 

 rare and local in Iowa, although it has been taken sporadically in 

 Minnesota (Hatch, Birds of Minn., p. 415). Thomas Say reported 

 the "Great Carolina Wren" at Engineers' Cantonment in 1819- 

 20 (lyong's Exp., i, p. 264) and the species was listed by J. A. 

 Allen in 1870. 



County records: Eee — "resident; not common and very local " 

 (Currier). Linn — "rare summer resident" (Berry). Van Buren 

 — "about fifteen years ago two were observed, three years later 

 three were observed, and in 1896 two were .seen" (W. G. Savage). 

 Webster-^" few" (Somes). Chapman (Birds E. N. A.) and Ridg- 

 way (Birds N. and Mid. Am.) give the Carolina Wren as ranging 

 north to southern Iowa. 



Genus Thryomanes Sclater. 



331- (719)- Tluyonianes beivicki {hx\(S..). Bewick Wren. 



The Bewick Wren is also rare and very locally distributed in 

 Iowa, although it has been known to occur in southern Minnesota 

 (Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, p. 115; Hatch, Birds of Minn., 

 p. 416; Cooke, Bird Migr., p. 271). 



County records: Des Moines — "A specimen taken by Paul 

 Bartsch at Burlington, April 10, 1893, reported by C. C. Nutting 



