The Great Carolina When in Massachusetts. — The Great Caro- 

 lina Wren {Thryothorus ludoviciaims) has not previously been recorded 

 as a visitor to Massachusetts, hut there are at present two apparently pass- 

 ing the summer in a small wooded swamp near Boston. It is believed 

 that they have arrived since the 4th of July, soon after which time my 

 attention was attracted by their loud notes, which I immediately recog- 

 nized, through their general likeness to the notes of other Wrens, and the 

 descriptions of Wilson and Audubon. It is further believed that they are 

 now building, or have recently built, their nest, since they remain per- 

 sistently in one neighborhood, the female being rarely seen, though the 

 male often visits the shrubbery about the house. — H. D. Minot. 



BulL N.O.O, I, Sept. 1876. p, 7fe - 



The Cakolina When in Massachusetts. — My friend, Mr. Geo. 0. 

 Welch, secured a fine specimen of the Thryothorus liidovicicmus in Lynn, 

 on the 6th of July. The imprudent stranger ventured within an easy 

 range of his work-room window, in the very heart of the city, and now 

 remains as tangible evidence of its right to a place on the list of the birds 

 of this State as well as New England. — T. M. Brewek, Boston, Mass. 

 Bun. N.O.O. 3, Oct., 1878. p. /fj. 



Thryothorus ludovicianus in Massachusetts.— An adult specimen of ^ 

 Tkrvothonisliidnvicianas was killed on the 4th of November last, by Mr. ' 

 Arthur Smith, in Brookline. Mass. The specimen is now in my cabinet. 

 — C. B. Cory, Bo^lon. Mas;^. AUk, X, Jan., lje|84., P. f . 



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The Carolina Wren in Eastern Massachusetts. — On May 4, 1903, I 

 found a Great Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) in an orchard in 

 Belmont, Mass. The bird was singing freely. The people in the house 

 near by said that they had heard him about the place for three or four days. 

 Since May 4 1 have neither seen nor heard the bird. According to Messrs. 

 Howe and Allen, ' Birds of Massachusetts,' p. 92, this is the seventh record 

 of this bird for the State, and the only record for the spring. — Ralph 

 Hoffmann, Belmont, Mass. Auk, XIX, July, 1902, p- 3.fX.> 



Another Record of Ijhryothorus ludovicianus in Massachusetts.— As I Tl 



was returning home about seven o'clock on'the morning of September 6, 

 1902, I stopped near the edge of a damp thicket of bushes and small trees, 



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isisting of 

 and wild grapes, 

 part of Fall Riv 

 attracted by a nev 

 was so thick I co 

 few moments, thf 



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red mapli 

 This tract, several i 

 er, Mass. After a 

 ■ bird song. This ce 

 jld not identify the 

 bird hopped 



birches, with tangles of briars 

 cres in extent, is in the northern 

 few moments my attention was 

 me from a black alder bush, which 

 singer. After singing there for a 

 an exposed twig, and I at once 

 Dr. Dwight, after examining the 

 young bird, in juvenal plumage. 



secured it, — a male Carolina Wi 

 bird, has kindly written me that it 



Among other variations of the song, I noted some which I presume are 

 those Mr. Chapman refers to as the 'tea-kettle' notes.— Owen Durfke, 

 er, Mass. ^335, xX,^ Jan.. 1003. p. 



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