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Genus HARPORHYNCHUS Cabanis. 



Subgenus Metheiopterus Reicheubach. 



■283. Harporhynolius rufus {Liiui.]. Brown Thrasher; Brown Thrush; Tawny 

 Thrush ; Brown Mookinkbird. 



Common summer resident; breeds. Both this and the last preceding species 

 occasionally winter in Southern Illinoi!i, and may occasionally do so in Southern 

 Indiana. I have not learned of the occurrence of the Brown Thrasher in Indiana 

 beiore March 2, nor after October 2. They seem to move forward at the time of 

 the spring migration by irregular movements, covering more or less territory and 

 stopping for a longer or shorter period after each forward move. There is a 

 locality two miles south of Brookville where these birds arrive from two days to a 

 week before they are to be found two or three miles farther up the valley. I have 

 examined these movements almost every year for twelve years, and in my observa- 

 tions have had the intelligent cooperation of my friend, Mr. E. R. Quick. No 

 bird, perhaps, illustrates the fact of the return of individuals to the home of the 

 previous year more plainly than this. I have found them mating March 31, with 

 a complement of eggs April 29, and with young May 11. " 



Subfamily TROGLODYTIN^. Wrens. 

 Genus THRYOTHORUS Vieillot. 

 Subgenus Thryothorus. 

 * 284. Thryothorus ludovicianus tt«fA.). Carolina Wren; Bio Brown Wren. 



Carolina Wren 



Common renident southward ; rare spring snd summer visitor and perhaps sum- 

 mer resident northward. It has been reported from Dekalb County by Hon. R. 

 Wes. McBride, Mrs. Hine and Mr. J. O. Snyder; from Porter County by Mr. J. W. 

 Byrkit, and I have myself noted it in Parke County. From the northeastern part 



