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so mucli so that I have seen the mate of one which I had shot 

 almost allow itself to be caught sooner than leave the lifeless 

 body of its comrade, and even when that was packed up and 

 put away for safe carriage home, follow me for some distance 

 through the woods with complaining cries. The form found here 

 does not appear to be so large as ordinary eastern examples, and 

 is appreciably darker in colour below, being thus intermediate 

 between Ludovicianus and Berlandieri. 



Troglodytes aedon parkmanni (Aud.) Western House 

 Wren. — An autumn migrant, arriving about the last week of 

 September. This species, for the space of three weeks, is very 

 numerous in all the wooded creeks, and even outlying copses 

 upon the prairie, but does not affect the thickly-timbered dis- 

 tricts. They feed among the coarse grass and broom weeds 

 growing along the edges of the creeks, and, if possible, prefer to 

 conceal themselves among such when approached, never showino- 

 themselves unless nearly trodden on, upon which they fly up 

 into the nearest tree, and, after one sharp glance at the intruder, 

 make their way to the further side by hopping from twig to 

 twig, and from thence they flit away so quietly as almost to defy 

 observation, until having put sufficient distance between them- 

 selves and the threatened danger, they drop down into the brush- 

 wood and conceal themselves so carefully as to be rarely visible 

 again. During the spring migration I only obtained a single 

 example, and from the shortness of its wing, which measured 

 but 2 02, I am inclined to think that this may have been typical 

 aedon ; of the many specimens of parkmanni which I measured, 

 the shortest wing measured 214. The spring specimen was killed 

 among grass on the open prairie, far from any trees or brushwood. 



Troglodytes (sp.) [?] — A small wren, probably hyemalis, is 

 occasionally seen in the wooded districts during the winter 

 months. It differs materially in habits from the last mentioned 

 species, being only found in damp, open woods, in the river 

 bottom, and exhibiting a decided preference for piles of dead 

 logs over all other localities, and so cunningly did they creep 

 between and conceal themselves in such debris, that I never suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining a specimen. 



CiSTOTHORUS STELLARis (Licht.) SJiort-bUled Marsh Wren.— 

 This pretty little species occurs in limited numbers on the prairie 



