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P. Denny's house on High Street. I inspected these birds at close 

 range on the evening of September 3, by the light of a wax taper. 

 The two were so rolled up in a ball, with feathers puffed out, that it 

 was very difficult to make either head or tail of them. I touched 

 the tips of their feathers without awakening them. Dr. Denny told 

 me the birds left in the latter part of November. 



A third pair of Carolina Wrens in Brookline has been reported 

 to me by Mr. Clarence Little. About October 15, 1908, a pair of 

 these birds appeared at his place on Goddard Avenue, about half 

 a mile from the Dudley Street pair. They remained through the 

 winter and up to the date of his writing, May 1, 1909. On this 

 date he writes: "We have seen them with one or two exceptions 

 every day, and they have been seen chiefly in or around an old 

 woodpile. As yet, however, we have seen no carrying of nesting 

 material." 



Jamaica Plain. On Bowditch Hill Dr. Harold Bowditch identi- 

 fied a Carolina Wren on August 23, 1908, which had been singing 

 in the vicinity of his house for several weeks. He recorded its 

 presence in the same place during September, and of two birds there 

 after September 25. Also from that date until March, 1909. 

 He says in a letter of April 5, 1909: "The birds were always re- 

 corded within an eighth of a mile of our house, on our place or on 

 one of those adjoining it." These birds were both seen by Mr. 

 F. H. Allen on September 3, 1908. 



In another part of Jamaica Plain, Mr. James L. Peters found a 

 Wren on September 21, 1908, which "was seen off and on until 

 nearly the first of November." Mr. Peters considers this was 

 probably the same bird that he found on July 17 in Franklin Park, 

 less than three quarters of a mile away. It is possible that the 

 same Wren may have been noted by Mr. Jack who writes under 

 date of April 19, 1909, as follows: "In October at least one Caro- 

 lina Wren came on several different dates, about my house on Forest 

 Hills Street, Jamaica Plain, always noted and discovered by its 

 peculiar call, its last visit being noted on November 2." 



Mr. C. E. Faxon writes me under date of April 13, 1909, that 

 "Two Carolina Wrens appeared here [at the Arnold Arboretum in 

 Jamaica Plain] this summer about August 1, and stayed about 

 three weeks when they were disturbed by some work going on near 



