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At West Med ford, Mrs. Bridge reported a wren in song observed 

 by Mrs. Ruth Coolidge on August 10, 1908. 



At Concord one was seen by Mrs. Bridge on October 9, 1908, 

 and Mr. F. B. McKechnie saw one in this town on April 5, 1909. 

 He was told it had been seen in the same locality for two weeks 

 previously. 



At Arlington Heights Mr. George Nelson saw a Carolina Wren 

 on August 15, 1909, and heard him on August 16. 



Cambridge. On September 7, 1909, Mr. Wm. Brewster discov- 

 ered two Carolina Wrens in his garden, where they remained a 

 week or ten days. They were seen also by Mr. Walter Deane and 

 Mr. H. A. Pnrdie. In a letter to me from Mr. Brewster dated 

 March 26, 1909, he says of these birds: "I took them to be a pair 

 of fully adult birds. One of them sang rather frequently, especially 

 in the early forenoon. After seeing them both in the garden 

 one morning I walked up Sparks Street to a stable on Concord 

 Avenue beyond Huron Avenue and fully a quarter of a mile from 

 our place. On arriving at my destination I heard a Carolina Wren 

 sing several times in a yard next that in which the stable was 

 situated. This bird must have been a different one from the 

 other two. I did not see it." 



In Brookline, close to Boston, it is apparent that two pairs of 

 Carolina Wrens passed the summer in localities not more than three 

 fourths of a mile apart; both of these pairs came under my observa- 

 tion on several occasions. Of the pair observed at Dudley Street, 

 Miss Blanche Kendall writes me as follows: "I first heard and 

 saw the Carolina W T ren on July the twenty- third, and on the twenty- 

 ninth I discovered that there were two. They remained until the 

 afternoon of December thirteenth when they disappeared during 

 that first heavy snow-storm. We enjoyed seeing and hearing them 

 all summer, and they grew very tame by fall, coining to the suet; 

 on to the windowsill, and even inside the room for seeds and nuts." 

 I saw one of these birds on July 30. 



At High and Allerton Streets in the same town a pair of Wrens 

 had been seen and heard by the residents since about July 16, 1908. 

 I saw one or both on July 29, August IS, September 3 and 30. 

 After the last of August they spent the nights in the end of a rolled 

 up matting screen suspended from the roof of the piazza of Dr. F. 



