Certkia familmris.~The statement that "the Brown Creeper is resi 

 dent throughout New England and a common bird in all suitable localities" 

 IS perhaps not sufficiently qualified hy the reservation that it breeds 

 "chiefly m the Canadian Fauna." The three southern New England 

 States have now been comparatively well explored, and the record by Mr. 

 Allen of a nest seen at Springfield, and another by Dr. Brewer of one 

 found near Taunton, with Mr. Merriam's simple statement that it "breeds" 

 m Connecticut, are all the reliable data that we have for attributing it to 

 the Alleghanian Fauna of New England. Opposed to this is the great 

 mass of negative testimony on the part of numerous local observers who 

 have never found the bird in summer at all. While it must be admitted 

 that there is something to be said on both sides of the question, we cannot 

 a^t present believe that the breeding of the Creeper south of the Canadian 

 Fauna is otherwise than a rare and exceptional occurrence. 



Bua N. O. Q, ^,Oot. 1882. ^ 3<i . 



