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Genus GALEOSCOPTES Cabanis. 

 [B 254, R 12, C 16, U 704.] 



Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linn.). Cat -bird. Summer resident; 

 abundant from the last of April to October. Nests in orchards and 

 thickets. 



Genus HARPORHYNCHUS Cabanis. 

 Subgenus METHRIOPTERUS Reichenbach. 



[B 261, 261 a, R 13, C 17, U 705.I 

 Harporhynchus rufus (Linn.). Brown Thrasher. Summer resi- 

 dent ; abundant from April to the last of September. Nests in hedges 

 and brush-heaps, about the ioth of May. One of our finest songsters. 

 Soon after its arrival, it is noticed in the top of some tall tree, pouring 

 forth its sweetest melodies — often for hours at a time — when, becom- 

 ing conscious of an audience it suddenly ceases, darts into the thicket 

 below, and is lost to view. 



Subfamily TROGLODYTIX.E. Wrens. 



Genus SALPINCTES Cabanis. 



[B 264, R 58, C65, U 715.] 

 Sulpirides obsoletus (Say.). Rock Wren. Not common. Mr. 

 Trippe also notes a specimen taken in Decatur County. 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vieillot. 

 Subgenus TROGLODYTES. 



[B 270, 272, R63, C 74, U 7-1-1 

 Troglodytes aedon Vieill. House Wren. Summer resident; com- 

 mon ; arriving in April, and departing about the middle of September. 

 Raises two or three broods in a season ; a nest with fresh eggs has been 

 taken as late as the second week in August. As is well known, its nest 

 is built in all sorts of places. A singular instance came under the ob- 

 server's notice while examining the nests of a colony of cliff swallows. 

 One of the swallows' nests was noticed to have a number of straws 

 protruding from the entrance. The side of the nest was carefully 

 broken away, and the nest inside extracted. It was composed of a few 

 straws and hairs, and lined with hair and feathers. It contained three 

 eggs of T aedon. The nest was picked to pieces, and the bottom was 

 found to be made of the body of a half-decomposed swallow. 



Subgenus AXORTHURA Rennie. 



[B 273, R 65, C 76, U 722.I 

 Troglodytes kiemalis Vieill. Winter Wren. Migratory; not common. 



