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of the State none have been reported. They frequent both towns and country, 

 nesting as often in the corner of a " worm fence " or within a brush pile as about 

 the outhouses near our homes This is the characteristic Wren of the lower White- 

 water Valley, where, as is the case in some other localities, it takes the place of all 

 others. They remain paired throughout the year and peem to breed almost the 

 whole year through. Mr. G. R. King informed me of a pair breeding in a box 

 beneath the shed of his drug store in the winter. I have known them to mate in 

 February, to begin building March 13, complete the nest March 22, complement of 

 five eggs March 29, eggs all hatched but one April 11, young nearly ready to leave 

 nest April 24. I have also found them with yonng July I. They .are usually 

 rather shy, but I have known a pair to build in a fleece of wool, hung on a porch 

 within two feet of the principal entrance to the house. 



Subgenus THRYOMANES Sclater. 

 :: 285. Thryothorus bewickii (And.). BEWICK'S WREN; LONG-TAILED WREN. 



Common summer resident, and possibly rare resident, throughout the southern 

 part of the State. Has not been reported north of Vigo and Putnam counties, in 

 each of which it is rather common, and Marion County, from which Dr. Brayton, 

 records it. I have found it at Brookville, March 1, but usually it appears about a 

 month later; by the middle of April they are mating. They are, in many locali- 

 ties, the " houpe wrens,", and are becoming such in the lower Whitewater Valley, al- 

 though they also make their homes about brush-heaps, logs, rail piles, old fences, 

 etc., but not so comrr only perhaps as the last mentioned species. The species is of 

 comparatively recent occurrence, regularly at least, in Franklin County. Up to 

 1869 Dr. Raymond had identified but few specimen*, and from that date until 1877 

 none were noted. In the spring of the latter year Mr. E. R. Quick identified sev- 

 eral specimens of this species. From that time to 1881 an occasional individual was 

 reported; since the last mentioned date, however, each year they have been more 

 numerous, until now they are very common. At Connersville, eighteen miles north, 

 and Richmond, thirty miles north, none have been seen. Early in May (1891) Mr. 

 E. R. Quick observed a pair building a nest in the draw-bar of a freight car, which 

 was standing on a siding near Brookville. 



GENUS TROGODYTES VIEILLOT. 



Subgenus TROGLODYTES. 

 *286. Troglodytes aedon Vleill. HOUSE WREN. 



Common summer resident in most localities in the northern and central por- 

 tions of the State; southward, regular migrant, or rarely summer resident; in 

 some parts of the State exceedingly local in its distribution, and also changing 

 its distribution. Mrs. Hine informs me that they first appeared in Dekalb County 

 in 1883 and are now common. At Connersville and Richmond they are common 

 summer residents, while at Brookville they have been known as rare migrants 

 until within the past few years, when two pairs have been noted breeding. In 

 localities where Bewick's Wren is found the House Wren is not often noted as a 

 summer resident. They migrate about the same time as Bewick's Wren, and may 

 be found nesting as early a 5 ? late April and early May. 



Subgenus ANORTHURA Rennie. 

 287. Troglodytes hiemalis Vieill. WINTER WREN. 



Common migrant, and winter resident in some numbers. They arrive from 

 the North, in the northern part of the State, late in September, and leave there, 



