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sionally on the ground; nest rude, coarse and bulky; eggs three to five, dirty white, 

 specked with brown; food small fruits and insects; ''Forbes found 23 per cent of food 

 which he examined to be canker worms" (report State Horticultural Society, 1891, p. 

 204); like the Robin, this bird often returns to the same place year after year. 



Subfamily TROGLODYTIN^E. Wrens. 

 Genos THEYOTHOBUS Vieill. 



CaroJna Wren. 



311-718-(68). Tliryothorus ludovicianus (Lach.). Carolina When. 



Rare summer resident in southern part of the State; " Lenawee County " (A. H. 

 Boies); Jerome Trombley finds it a rare summer resident in Monroe County, where he 

 took a nest in 1892, beneath the roots of a fallen tree, with six eggs in it; " northern 

 counties of Indiana" (Butler's Birds of Indiana). Said to breed at nearly all seasons. 

 We have never seen it here. J. B. Purdy says it does not breed at Plymouth. 



312-719-(71). Thryothorus bewickii (Aud.). Bewick's Wren. 



"Very rare, in spring" (Dr. M. Gibbs); very rare; "summer resident in Monroe 

 County, where it has nested three years in a bird box, identification certain " (Jerome 

 Trombley); "rare, but several taken in Kalamazoo County" (Dr. M. Gibbs); we have 

 never taken this here, and J. B, Purdy says the same of Plymouth. 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vietll. 



313-72 1-(74). Troglodytes aedon (Vieill.). House Wren. 



Very common in some localities; April to October; "abundant at Grand Rapids" 

 (E. B. Boies); "becoming rare at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "not rare at Ann Arbor ' 

 (Dr. J. B. Steere); "not seen in Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); "Mackinac Island" 

 (S. E. White); " common at Iron Mountain " (E. E. Brewster); breeds; nests in holes in 



