^2 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



April 8 to 29 ; Summer ; September 15 to December 25; Winter. 



Amherst : "Irregular migrant." Berkshire: " Chiefly a spring and 

 autumn migrant, though many breed." Bristol County: " Rare and irreg- 

 ular winter visitant." Brookline; " Uncommon migrant." Cambridge: 

 Transient visitant, rather rare. Uedham : "Rare winter visitor." 

 Springfield: "Uncommon spring and autumn % visitor and rare winter 

 resident." Templeton ; " Common migrant." Wellesley : " Scarce 

 migrant and rare winter resident." 



252. Hylemathrous aedon (Vieill.). HOUSE WREN. 



A formerly common summer resident ; now common only locally. 



April 24 to October 4. 



Amherst : "Uncommon summer resident. 1 ' Berkshire: " Fairly com- 

 mon summer resident." Bristol County: "Rare summer resident." 

 Brookline; "Local summer resident." Cambridge: Locally common 

 summer resident. Dedham ; "Rare." Essex County: "Summer visit- 

 ant. Common." Springfield: "Rather uncommon summer resident." 

 Templeton: " Rather rare summer resident." Wellesley: " Scarce sum- 

 mer resident." 



253. Thryothorus ludovicianus (Lath.). CAROLINA 

 WREN. 



A very rare visitant from the south. It has been noted in the 

 State during the breeding season, and as it has been found breed- 

 ing in Rhode Island, it may possibly do so rarely in Massachu- 

 setts. The records are: near Boston (Roxbury), a pair seen and 

 thought to be probably breeding in a swamp, about July 4, 1876 ; 1 

 Lynn, a bird taken July 6, 1878. This bird. is now in the mounted 

 collection of the Boston Society of Natural History ; ' 2 Brookline, 

 a specimen taken November 4, 1883, by Arthur Smith; 3 Cam- 

 bridge, a male taken September 27, 1891 ; 4 Dorchester, Mr. 

 Francis J. Birtwell writes us that a male was taken and another 

 bird seen by Mr. F. B. McKechnie, December 30, 1898; Taunton, 

 one was captured in the barn of John Sharpe, February 13, 1899, 

 at the time of a great storm. 5 



1 Minot; Bull. Nutt. Orn'. Club, Vol. I, No. 3, Sept., 1876, p. 76. 



2 Brewer; ibid., Vol. Ill, No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 193. 



3 Cory; Auk, Vol. I, No. i, Jan., 1884, p. 91. 

 4 Batchelder; Auk, Vol. IX, No. I, Jan., 1892, pp. 73, 74. 

 5 Copeland ; in MS. 



