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eadence that holds you entranced,” but while with us the 
bird’s only note is an impatient chimp, chimp, suggest- 
ing the Song Sparrow’s call-note. 
The Carolina Wren is a more southern bird than the 
House Wren. It is of only local distribution north of 
Carolina Wren,  S0uthern New Jersey, and is rare’y 
Thryothorus found north of the vicinity of New 
tudovicianus. York city, where it appears to be in- 
ereasing in numbers and is found throughout the year. 
This Wren is half an inch longer and decidedly heavier 
than the House Wren ; its upper parts are bright cinna- 
mon, its under parts washed with the same color, and 
a conspicuous white line passes from the bill over the 
The Carolina Wren is an exceedingly musical bird, 
and its loud whistled calls are among the most character- 
istie bird notes in the South. They are numerous and 
varied, the most common resembling the syllables whee- 
udel, whee-udel, whee-udel, and tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea- 
kettle. 
The haunts of most marsh-inhabiting birds are as 
sharply defined as the limits of their ranges. The Long- 
Lene-billed billed Marsh Wren is not known in 
Marsh Wren, the East north of Massachusetts, but I 
Uistothorve paluatrie. would as soon expect to find one of 
Plate LXIX. these birds in Greenland as out of a 
marsh. They arrive from the South early in May and 
remain until October, living in marshes where cat-tails 
grow, to which they may attach their bulky, globular 
nests of reeds and grasses. With the superabundant 
vigor of Wrens they build more nests than they can 
possibly oceupy, and many will be examined before the 
five to six dark brown eggs are found. 
The Marsh Wren is quite as active and irrepressible 
as the other niembers of his family. His call is the cus- 
