264 Townsend, Carolina Wren in Xeiv England. [jui k 



specimen ever taken in the State. Vermont: "A rare visitant in the 

 southern part of the State." l No definite record. Bennington? 

 Cutting." MassarJi usetts - : "A very rare visitant from the South." 

 Some six records and also a pair thought to be breeding are given 

 by Howe and Allen. 3 Since the publication of this record and 

 prior to the present invasion, there have been four records of a sin- 

 gle bird and one of a breeding pair reported in 'The Auk.' RJtode 

 Island: "A very rare summer resident"; one breeding record. 4 

 Since the publication of the above, the Carolina Wren appears to 

 have been a fairly regular visitor and to have occasionally bred in 

 southern Rhode Island. Connecticut: Dr. Louis B. Bishop, in a 

 letter dated April 15, 1909, kindly wrote me as follows: "I have no 

 records of the occurrence of the Carolina Wren in Connecticut be- 

 fore 1891. . . .Mr. W. H. Hoyt of Stamford informed me that two 

 were taken there in the fall of 1891 and it had been frequently 

 noticed since, and that he believed it then occurred regularly. Mr. 

 John Schaler of Stamford gave me much the same information, but 

 he did not find it till 1894. Mr. W. R. Nichols of Branford told 

 me on June 6, 1894, that a pair had bred in Branford for several 

 vears, but had not been seen that year, their breeding place having 

 been cut over. Between New Haven and Guilford I found them 

 in the fall of 1902, the two collected being young birds, and noted 

 two in the fall of 1903. From then I have no record of the Carolina 

 Wren in Connecticut until those reported by Mr. Clifford Pangburn 

 in this April 'Auk,' and I believe the cold winters of 1903-4 and 

 1904-5 exterminated them." 



In the following report it is sometimes difficult or impossible to 

 determine whether the same bird has been seen in two nearby locali- 

 ties, or whether two different birds have been observed. In some 

 cases it seems probable that different birds have been found, owing 

 to the relatively stationary habits of the Carolina Wren and its 

 restricted feeding area, while in other cases this point is definitely 



1 G. H. Perkins and C. D. Howe, A Preliminary List of the Birds found in Vermont, 

 New York, 1901, p. 116. 



2 R. H. Howe, Jr., Review of Perkin's Birds of Vermont, Longwood, Mass., 1902, 

 p. 21. 



3 R. H. Howe, Jr., and G. M. Allen, The Birds of Massachusetts, Cambridge, Mass., 

 1901, p. 92. 



4 R. H. Howe, Jr., and E . Sturtevant, The Birds of Rhode Island, 1899, p. 84. 



