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MARSH WREN. 



Troglodytes PALUSTRis, Bonap. 



PLATE C. Vol. I. p. 500. 



A nest of this bird with eggs was seen in the salt marshes of Barns- 

 table by Dr Stoker of Boston. At the sonth-west pass of the Missis- 

 sippi, I found it very abundant, in full song, and breeding, on the 1st 

 of April 1837. At the latter place this species sings during the whole 

 of the night. 



BEWICK'S WREN. 



Troglodytes Bewickii. 



PLATE XVIIL Vol. I. p. 96. 



For the following observations regarding this species I am indebted 

 to my friend Dr Bachman. " In the month of July 1835, when on a 

 visit to the mountains of Virginia, I heard at the Salt Sulphur Springs 

 the note of a Wren that I did not recognise as that of any of our known 

 species. On procuring the bird I ascertained it to be the Bewick's 

 Wren. There were a pair, accompanied by four or five young, nearly 

 full grown. The notes bore some resemblance to those of the Winter 

 Wren, scarcely louder and more connected. It possessed all the rest- 

 less habits of the other species, creeping actively between the rails of 

 fences and among logs and stumps. One of them ascended an oak 

 nearly to its top in the manner of a Creeper. I found the young seve- 

 ral times during the morning entering a hole in the limb of a fallen 

 tree a few feet from the ground, and conjectured that they had been 

 bred in that situation. I was unable to see the nest. During a re- 

 sidence of a few weeks in the neighbourhood of the Virginia springs I 

 saw several of these birds every day, and ascertained that this was the 

 only species of Wren common in the mountains. The Troglodytes oedon 

 was abundant in all the low country of Virginia, to the foot of the AUe- 



