Birds of Indiana. 1117 



to Maryland and Delaware. Breeds throughout its range. Winters 

 from southern Illinois south. 



Nest, almost anywhere about buildings, fences, brush piles, logs, 

 etc.; of grass, straw, sticks, etc. Sggs, 5-9; white, sometimes pinkish, 

 with fine specks of reddish-brown and lavender; .67 by .50. 



Bewick's Wren is a common summer resident throughout the 

 greater part of southern Indiana and in the lower Wabash Valley, at 

 least, north to Knox County, is a resident, though much rarer in 

 winter. They frequent to some extent, fence rows, more open timber 

 land, thickets and orchards, but in many localities outside the breeding 

 range of the House Wren have become the "House Wren." At Brook- 

 ville they now occupy that position, which was held formerly by the 

 Carolina Wren, and nest about buUdings and fences, woodpiles, in short, 

 in all such places as a Wren would select. The recent extension of the 

 range of this species is notable. In 1879 Dr. Wheaton announces it 

 had not been authentically reported from Ohio (Birds of 0., p. 330); 

 it was imknown to him that Mr. Chas. Dury took it that year at 

 Cincinnati. It was almost wholly unknown in Franklin County, Ind., 

 until recent years. In 1869 Dr. Bufus Haymond had seen but a few 

 specimens. None were noted from that year until 1877, when Mr. 

 E. E. Quick identified several specimens. From that date to 1881, 

 an occasional one was seen. Since the last mentioned year, however, 

 when they became common, they have been annually increasing in 

 number, and now they are abundant. The spring of 1897, I found 

 six pairs breeding in an area of one-half mile by a mile, in Brookville. 

 Up to 1890 it had reached Vigo and Putnam counties, where it was 

 rather common, and had been reported from Marion County. Korth 

 of the points named it was unknown. 



It was first noted at Lafayette in 1890, where a pair bred (Dr. F. C. 

 Test), and they became common in 1892 (L. A. and C. D. Test). 

 They were first reported from Wabash in 1891, and were common in 

 1894 (Wallace). One was seen at Springport, Henry County, April 

 29, 1894 (Williamson). They were first reported and said to breed 

 at Petersburg, Mich., May 15 and 16, 1894. They were still rare there 

 in 1897 (Trombley). The first record from Eichmond, Ind., is in the 

 spring of 1897, and it is given as rare (Hadley). I believe they are 

 extending their winter residence northward, and beyond that limit 

 the date of their spring migration is becoming earlier. They were 

 not observed at Brookville from 1877 to 1888 before April 1, but 

 in 1889 they appeared March 1, and were common by March 7. Since 

 then they have generally appeared in March. They usually arrive 

 wherever found in this State before the middle of April. They mate 



