i2o WRENS 



HOUSE WREN 

 Troglodytes a'idon aidon. Case 4, Fig. 63; Case 6, Fig. 70 



No introduction is needed to this feathered tenant of many 

 bird-lovers. L. 5. 



Range. Nests from Virginia and Kentucky to Canada; winters 

 from South Carolina and lower Mississippi Valley to Mexico. 



Washington, common S. R., Apl. 13-Oct. 11. Ossining, com- 

 mon S. R., Apl. 23— Oct. 14. Cambridge, formerly abundant S. R., 1 

 Apl. 28— Sept. 25; now rare and local. N. Ohio, common S. R., 

 Apl. 17-Oct. 5. Glen Ellyn, S. R. in isolated pairs; Apl. 26- 

 Oct. 13. SB. Minn., common S. R., Apl. 27-Sept. 18. 



The familiar inhabitant of our bird-houses whose num- 

 bers seem limited only by the nesting-sites we offer him. 

 His little fountain of melody bubbles forth irrepressibly 

 to cheer his mate or challenge a rival. With the exhaust- 

 less energy of their kind they fill their nest-box with twigs, 

 grasses and feathers, wherein are laid 6-8 minutely and 

 evenly speckled pinkish eggs. 



WINTER WREN 

 Nannus hiemalis hiemalis. Case 2, Fig. 58 



Smaller than the House Wren; underparts brownish, flanks 

 and belly finely barred. L. 4. 



Range. Nests from northern New England and Central Michi- 

 gan north to Canada and, in the Alleghanies, south to North 

 Carolina; winters from the Northern States to the Gulf. 



Washington, rather common W. V., Aug. 10-May 1. Ossining, 

 tolerably common W. V., Sept. 18-Apl. 27. Cambridge, T. V. 

 uncommon, Sept. 20-Nov. 25; rare, Apl. 10-25; a very few 

 winter. N. Ohio, tolerably common. W. V., Sept. 14-May 17. 

 Glen Ellyn, fairly common T. V., Apl. i-May 10; Sept. o-Nov. 7. 

 SE. Minn., common T. V., rare W. V„ Sept. 22-Apl. 3. 



The Winter Wren comes to us from the North when the 

 House Wren leaves for the South and remains with us 

 until the House Wren returns in the spring. But one 

 by no means takes the place of the other. The Winter 

 Wren is a wood Wren that lives in fallen tree-tops, old 



