OF VIRGINIA 325 
FAMILY TROGLODYTID/E.—WRENS. 
GENUS THRYOTHORUS. 
[718]. Phryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus 
(Latham). Carolina Wren. 
Easter United States. Breeds in Carolinian 
and .Austroriparian zones from southeastern Nebraska, 
southern Iowa, Ohio, southern Pennsylvania, and lower 
Hudson and Connecticut Valleys south to central Texas 
(western Texas in winter), Gulf States, and northern 
Florida; casual north to Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. 
RANGE. 
Winter or summer, hot or cold, it’s “Cheerily, cheerilv” 
with the Carolina Wren. Nothing seems to affect him, 
not even when the saucy little House Wren rolls the eggs 
out of his nest; off he goes and builds another. Around 
the farm house and outbuildings he seems most at home; 
the wood pile with its ever-present store of insects and 
worms is his paradise. They nest anywhere, in a fruit 
basket, can of nails, over the window sash, on a narrow 
ledge, or on the sill under the barn, in racked-up wood, 
and a dozen other places one would never expect them to. 
Away from the outbuildings it’s another matter to find 
a nest, under a brush pile, in a fallen hollow limb of a 
tree or small log, upturned roots, or a decaved cavity in 
a stump—all are their favorite places. In the woods if 
vou find a nest just completed and don’t touch it or go 
within a foot or two of it, nine hundred and ninety-nine 
times out of a thousand they desert it. Around the farm 
buildings it’s different; he may be over the door that is 
