BIRDS OF MINNESOTA 419 
and Ducks, have done this, but the smaller ones, amongst 
which are the wrens, occasionally become disabled and have 
_ been secured. I have found a few in very open, genial 
autumns, remaining until after the 15th of October. 
Presumptively, these constitute a considerable portion of 
those reportod to me as belonging to the type species. 
They are reported as abundant in every wooded section 
heard from and very common in the cities of St. Paul and 
Minneapolis as I have myself observed them. Mr. Washburn 
found them abundant everywhere in the Red river valley, as 
Dr. Hvoslef also gives them at Lanesboro. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Similar in size to'7. addon, with a light line over the eye, &c.; 
the colors however grayer, the upper parts dark brown, the 
lower grayish white, with little or none of the rufous tinge of 
particular regions, as seen in the other. 
Length, 5; wing 2.10; tail, 2. 
Habitat, western North America eastward to Manitoba, 
Minnesota, &c. 
TROGLODYTES HIEMALIS Vieitvor. (722.) 
! WINTER WREN. 
A .egular winter visitant, reaching this latitude where I re- 
reside variously from the 20th of December to the middle of Jan- 
uary. It is never abundant, but itis not very unfrequently seen 
in winter. Occasionally obtained in the logging camps during 
the severest weather, and I have found it within three hours 
ride of the city on several occasions, one of which was in De- 
cember, and another in February. It has also been taken by 
several persons in the southern part of the State, making it 
presumptive that it extends its migrations much further south. 
Dr. Hvoslef has seen and obtained it in Fillmore county during 
successive winters. I believe they all leave by or before the 
first of March. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill very straight, slender, conical, and shorter than the 
head. Tail considerably shorter than the wings which reach 
to its middle. Upper parts reddish-brown, becoming brighter 
to the rump and tail; transverse bars of dusky, and of lighter 
everywhere except on the head and upper part of the back; 
scapulars and wing coverts with spots of white; beneath pale 
reddish-brown, barred on the posterior half of the body with 
