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the Chapel on the Highland singing freely. Presently he took 

 successive flights southeastward along the Highland, singing 

 from each perch without passing out of my hearing, while I 

 walked home to call others out to hear him. By these succes- 

 sive flights he at length came upon our own place and sang, and 

 then passed on in his eastward course beyond our observation. 

 On June 20, 1910, at 5:15 in the morning, I was called to hear 

 a Brown Thrasher singing but a short distance from our house 

 and confirmed my sister's identification of the song. After a 

 period of singing he ceased and was not heard again. In both 

 of these instances the bird would seem to have been a wanderer 

 beyond his usual domain. 



Mr. Spaulding furnishes other records. He states that one 

 was seen by him on May 13, 1907, and that it remained about 

 the same locality near his home for three weeks and then disap- 

 peared. He also states that he saw one by the roadside north 

 of the town (L^ancaster) about twenty years ago, but that he did 

 not make any record of the observation. It is of interest to add 

 upon the further statement of Mr. Spaulding that " a few years 

 later a pair nested across the Connecticut River in Vermont, the 

 nest being placed in a brush heap." Mr. Spaulding states, " I 

 did not see the nest, but think there can be no doubt about it, 

 as a friend of mine described the nest and eggs to me, and there 

 could not be any confusion about it." 



Mr. Marble, in his " lyist of Birds " found near the Crawford 

 House, furnishes one other record, that of a bird seen in July, 

 1905, in the vicinit}'^ of the hotel. 



169. Troglodytes aedon aedon. House Wren. 



lyOcally a fairly common summer resident. The species is 

 well distributed along the old turnpike road for two or three 

 miles of its length, where the forest has been cut and fire has 

 swept through and now in essentially open country overgrown 

 with birches old stumps remain. In these the nests are placed. 

 Here in recent 3^ears from ten to sixteen singing males have 



