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i*6' long'; tarsus, i"JS' I inner toe with claw, 1-4' ; middle toe 

 with claw, 1 '75' ; claw on middle toe serrated on inner side with 

 thirteen blunt teeth ; upper mandible, black ; lower, raw 

 umber; crown and dorsum of neck, black; back, black margined 

 with decided shades of brown ; throat and under part of neck of 

 a rich burnt umber ; belly to tail, olive brown shading to van- 

 dyke brown, darkest on the outside ; scapulars and tail, black 

 tinged with shades of metallic green ; the primaries, secondaries, 

 primary coverts and greater coverts, blackish slate with a 

 brownish tinge on the primaries ; the greater coverts are tipped 

 centrally with burnt umber ; other wing coverts, burnt umber ; 

 eye, chrome yellow ; tarsus and upper side of toes, olive green ; 

 soles, chrome yellow ; about 0*3' of tibia above tarsus, bare ; 

 contents of stomach, thirty-four small fish, bass ? Several of 

 the ova were o # i' in diameter. 



r~ , William Brodie.. 



1 or onto. 



Those who wish to look up the published records of this 

 interesting bird will find references to it in : 



The Auk, Vol. III., April, 1886, p. 262— C. B. Cory. 



Ibid. Vol. III., July, 1886, p. 408— C. B. Cory. 



Ibid. Vol. VI., 1889, p. 317— W. E. D. Scott. 



Ibid. Vol. VIII., July, 1891, p. 309— C. B. Cory. 



Ibid. Vol. VIII., July, 1891, p. 309— W. E. D. Scott. 



Ibid. Vol IX., April, 1892, p. 141— W. E. D. Scott. 



Ibid. Vol. IX., July, 1892, p. 214— W. E. D. Scott. 



Ibid. Vol. X., October, 1893, P- 3^3 — H. H. Brown and 

 Wm. Brewster. 



Robt. Ridgway, Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 127. 

 Dr. Elliott Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1892, pp. 888, 905. 

 Proc. Ornith. Sub-section of Can. Inst., 1890-91, p. 41, " A 

 new species for Ontario," by Wm. Cross. 



THE NESTING OF THE WINTER WREN. 



The latest date on which any of this species had been here 

 previously was about the middle of November, while the earliest 

 record of its advent in spring was the last week in March. 



