] C. II. Merriam — Birds of Connecticut. 



15. ParuS HudSOniCUS Forster. Hudsonlan Chickadee. 



A rare accidental visitor from the iiortli. In the July (1870) num- 

 ber of the Bulletin Nuttall Ornith. Club, I called attention to the first 

 instance of the capture of this northern chickadee in Connecticut: 

 "On Nov. 13, 1875, Mr. Robert Morris, while shooting in a wooded 

 ravine a few miles from tOAvn [New Haven], killed a female Hudsonian 

 Titmouse {Parus Iliidsonieus). The specimen is now in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Thomas Osborne of this city." Its occurrence so far south 

 must be regarded as purely accidental. Mr. Wm. Brewster took a 

 specimen at Concord, Mass., Oct. 30, 1870.* This was supposed to be 

 the most southern, and only Massachussetts, record, but as long ago 

 as 1839, Peabody tells us that it " has been found by S. Eliot Greene, 

 Esq., near his house in Brookline."f 



Family, SITTID^E. 



1 6. Sitta CarolinensiS (Gmelin) Latham. White-bellied Nuthatch. 



Resident ; breeds. Not particularly abundant immediately about 

 New Haven, especially in sunmier. Its nest, however, has been 

 taken within city limits by the Stadtmiiller Brothers. 



17. Sitta Canadensis Linne. Red-belHed Xulhatch. 



A tolerably common winter resident, arriving about the middle of 

 October (Oct. 13, 1875, abundant), and remaining till after the middle 

 of April (April 19, 1876, Osborne). 



Family, CERTHIID^:. 



18. Certhia familiaris Limie. Browu Creeper. 



A rather common resident; breeds. Particularly abundant in win- 

 ter, when it may frecpUMitly be si-en running about on tlie elms in the 

 heart of the city. 



Family, TROG-LODYTID^. 



19. Troglodytes aedon Vielllot. House Wren. 



A summer resident; breeds. Not abundant. Arrives late in April 

 or early in May (Apr. 27, 1869, Hartford; 27, 1877, Portland; May 



*Am. Nat., voh vi, No. 5. p. 30G. May, 18'72. 



f A Report on the Ornithology of Massac-husctts, l)y AVm. B. O. I'eabody. p. 402. 

 1839. 



