I20 General Notes. [April 



rence must still be regarded as exceptional, for the breeding-range 

 of the Winter Wren is sufficiently well known to preclude any serious 

 question of its availability as a "test species" of the Canadian Fauna. — 

 William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Winter Wren {Anorthura troglodytes kietnalis) in Western 

 Vermont. — In the northwestern part of the town of Brandon, l^'ing 

 along the bank of the Otter Creek, is a swamp some three miles in length 

 and from one-half to one and one-half miles in breadth. Foi-merly this 

 was all heavily timbered, but the timber has been largely removed and at 

 this time but little of the "first-growth" remains; this is near the centre 

 of the swamp. The swamp has an elevation above the sea of probably 

 about 350 feet, and is overflowed by the creek during high water. On 

 June 4 of last year (1882), while botanizing in the heavy " first-growth," 

 my attention was attracted by a pair of Winter Wrens. They constantly 

 darted in and out of a large brush-heap, scolding the while in true Wren 

 fashion, and seemed very desirous that I should leave. A close examina- 

 tion of the brush-heap and vicinity failed to reveal the site of the nest. 

 On July 4 following, I again visited the locality, and about this same 

 brush-heap saw old birds of this species feeding young but a day or two 

 from the nest. This of course set at rest all doubt about their bi-eeding 

 here. I have never seen them in summer before. In the following Novem- 

 ber I spent two days (24th and 25th) in this swamp and, to my surprise, 

 saw a pair of these Wrens. Snow covered the ground to a depth of two 

 inches or more, and the thermometer was but little above zero. The Litest 

 I have noted them before was the first part of October. — F. H. Knowl- 

 TON, Middlebury, Vt. 



Troglodytes aedon parkmani in Kansas. — I have the pleasure 

 of recording the first capture of this bird in Kansas. It was shot at 

 Larned, Kansas, April 21, 1S81, by Mr. Geo. C. Waterman (No. 3903 $'). 

 and identified by Mr. Ridgway. — H. K. Coale, Chicago, III. 



Capture of the Great Carolina Wren {T/iryothortis ludovic- 

 ianus') IN Connecticut, in March. — A male of this species was shot 

 here March 2, 1883, by Mr. Chas. H. Nefi", and is now in his cabinet. 

 It was in good condition — was in song and killed among the rocks on 

 a wooded hillside. 



So far as I can learn, the only previously recorded capture of this Wren 

 in Connecticut is the one taken by J. N. Clark at Saybrook, Nov. 25, 

 1878 (see this Bulletin, Vol. IV, p. 61). — Jno. H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



A second Instance of the Wintering of the Pine Warbler 

 IN Massachusetts. — To Mr. Browne's recent record (this Bulletin, Vol. 

 VII, p. 119), of the probable wintering of the Pine Warbler in this state, 

 I can now add a second. On December 30, 1882, Mr. C. J. Maynard 

 showed me a female Dendroeca pitms., in the flesh, which had been killed 



