Auk., Xii, July, 1895, p, 5/7- 

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Thryothorus ludovicianus. Carolina Wren. — On the 5th of Novem- 

 ber, 1894, I was passing through a patch of fallen timber in the woods 

 near Stony Point and stopped to watch some Chickadees. When I 

 started on I was startled by a loud chattering such as I had never heard 

 before. It was fully ten minutes before I caught sight of the author of 

 it, and had the pleasure of adding a Carolina Wren to my collection. I 

 have not seen any record of its capture in Western New York previous to 

 this. It was taken just after a severe gale from the southwest.— James 

 Savage, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Breeding of t#e^&iro^l7w^e^„°^ ;i'.m!Z;£.=««..) on Long 



Island, N.Y— On the 20th of March, 1896,1 heard a Carolina Wren in 

 a swamp near ray home in Roslyn, Qvieen's Co., N. Y. Knowing it to be 

 rare on Long Island I decided to watch it as closely as possible, hoping 

 it might have a mate. 



The village of Roslyn is situated at the head of Hampstead Harbor, 

 and is shut in by hills on three sides. There are three ponds in the vil- 

 lage, a few hundred feet apart, with swamp land between, and being in a 

 row, one above the other, they divide the village in two parts. Between 

 the highest pond and the second one is a swamp three or four acres in 



area, where I first heard the Wren, and where he stayed most of the time 

 for several weeks. Every day I could hear ;picki/i' cherries, pickin' 

 cherries, jyickiii cherries, fickiii , or teakettle, teakettle, teakettle, or luhee- 

 ha, ivhee-ha, -Mhee-ha, but the bird was very shy for a long time; in fact, 

 till the nest was built. Starting from the swamp, he would make a com- 

 plete circuit of the village every day, but apparently never left the valley. 



Early in June I noticed that he seemed to stick to one locality most of 

 the time, so I did a little exploring on his account, but could find no signs 

 of a nest or a mate. The property on which the bird seemed to be located 

 being occupied by people with whom I was not acquainted, I felt a little 

 delicate about asking to go over the place more than once, so I asked Mr. 

 Lewis H. West, who owns the place, to ask his tenants if they would not 

 watch the Wren and try to find the nest. " Why, yes," they told him, 

 "the birds have their nest in the roof of the well." This was about the 

 25th of June. 



We found the nest in one corner of the roof of the well, about ten feet 

 from the ground. The well is less than forty feet from the house, and is 

 used daily. One of the birds left the nest when we went to see it, but 

 stayed close by on a hemlock till we left. 



I did not have a chance to visit the nest again till the loth of July, 

 when I found three young birds in the nest, well feathered. The mother 

 bird was feeding them at the time, and was not at all shy, alighting on 

 the lattice work around the well, with a small green worm in her bill, and 

 •waiting till we withdrew. 



I did not keep track of the young birds after that, but heard the old 

 ones nearly every day for a long time. On Nov. 3, I heard two calling to 

 each other, one on the hill, one in the swamp. Thejast tiine I heard 

 anything of them was Nov. 22. 



There can be no possible doubt as to the identification of the bird, for 

 Mr. West and I both were within six feet of them twice, and I have often 

 watched them at short distances with a field-glass, while the song itself is 

 a pretty safe guide with that bird. 



I have good reason to believe that this is the first record of the actual 

 breeding of the Carolina Wren on Long Island. — Chas. E. Conklin, 

 Roslyn, Queen's Co., N. Y. 



