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trees, stumps, in niches under porches, boxes, etc., in .June, occasionally second time 

 in August; eggs four to ten, white, thickly specked with reddish brown. This bird is 

 very rare at Lansing, especially since the advent of the English Sparrow, but "very 

 common at Traverse City " (L. W. Watkins; " this bird leaves the vicinity of our dwel- 

 lings after breeding" rL. S. Foster). This little. Wren nested in my whirling horse- 

 tether box. and repaired its nest time after time, as it would be destroyed by the 

 turning of the box — there were six eggs. 



Winter Wren, slightly reduced. 



•514r-722-(76). Troglodytes liiemalis Vieill. * Winter Wren. 



Common migrant; "transient in Monroe County, seen oftener in spring than in 

 fall" (Jerome Trombley); "migrant at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "very common in 

 spring, summer and fall, and occasionally in late winter, breeds" (Dr. M. Gibbs); 

 reported by S. E. White at Grand Rapids, .June 11, 1891; "rare at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. 

 B. Steere); it is very rare at Lansing; " Kent County, where it breeds, and Mackinac 

 Island" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw Point " (Kneeland); rather shy; "breeds in Upper 

 Peninsula" (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); E. W. Durfee took a nest near Grand Rapids; 

 • nesting habits much as in last species " (Davie's Nests and Eggs on North Ameri- 

 can Birds, p. 107); though it may nest in brush-piles, etc.; nest lined with feathers; 

 eggs four to nine, white, minutely specked with brown; feeds on insects and insects' 

 eggs; " song loud and hearty, scolds vigorously at intrusion " (E. L. Moseley). 



Genu.s CISTOTHORUS Cab. 



t-bort-billeJ Alar.-h \Vr<;0, uatoral size. 

 .*}15 724 (?>1). Cistothonis stellaris (Lic/if.). *Shokt-billed Marsh Wren. 



Rather common; summer; "rare at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); •* Lenawee 

 County" (A. H. Boies); "common in marshes at the west end of Lake Erie'' 



