28 BIRDS OF NORTH DAKOTA 



240724. Short-billed Marsh Wren. Cistothorus stellaris. 



Breeding. Locally common. Nests in small colonies in thick high grass 

 near sloughs. Earliest arrivals from the south noted May 6th to 23rd. 



241725. Long-billed Marsh Wren. Cistothoms palustris. 



Locally common. Nests in high rushes wherever found. Coming from 

 their winter haunts with the preceding species, they fool away a great deal 

 of time building nests before they finally get down to the business of raising 

 a brood of young. 



242726. Brown Creeper. Certhia faniiliaris americana. 



Rare. Irregular migrant. No known instance of its breeding. 



243727. White-breasted Nuthatch. Sitta carolinensis. 



Tolerably common migrant. Presumably breeding in Turtle Mountains 

 as specimens were taken in July. 



244728. Bed-breasted Nuthatch. Sitta canadensis. 



Not uncommon during the fall flights in September and October. Not 

 noted in spring migrations. 



245 735a. Long-tailed Chickadee. Parus atricapillus septentrionalis. 



Rather a common resident in Turtle Mountains. Rarely seen on prairies. 

 Have some winter notes for Turtle Mountains indicating that it may be a 

 winter resident some years. 



246748. Golden- crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa. 



Only one record of this species being seen near Cando. 



247749. Ruby-crowned Kinglet regulus calendula. 



Tolerably common spring migrant. 



248 756a. Willow Thrush. Turdus fuscesceus salicicola, 



Common migrant on prairies. Abundant summer resident of Turtle Moun- 

 tains. 



249775. Graycheeked Thrush. Turdus alicia. 



Common migrant. First seen second week in May. 



250 758a. Olive-backed Thrush. Turdus ustulatus swainsonii. 



Rare spring migrant. Not noted in fall. 



251 761. Robin. Merula migratoria. 



Tolerably common migrant. One pair known to have nested in Cando 

 in 1893. Also found breeding in the Turtle Mountains. (In 1910, now one 

 of our most common nesting birds around Cando. 



252766. Bluebird. Sialia sialis. 



Rare summer visitor. Some years not seen at all. This is another species 

 that is becoming more common as the country settles up. 



252768. Mountain Bluebird. Sialia arctica. 



Rare early spring visitor. Irregular in its appearance here. 



ADDENDA 

 English Sparrow. Passer domesticus. 



A flock of eight arrived in the town of Cando in late fall of 1894. They 

 were the first seen in this section, but few were raised in 1895. Now in 1910, 

 they have become the unmitigated nuisance, they are everywhere. Building 

 their unsightly nests in trees as well as in the barns, granaries, and other 

 farm buildings, and usual or unusual places of the city buildings where they 

 are allowed to gather in flocks. Around the farm buildings they do a great 



