Bds. Obs. near Oraylock Mt. Berkshire 

 Co. Mass. June 28- July la. W.Faxon 



' 68. Troglodytes hiemalis. Winter When. — Common in suitable 

 localities on tlie Saddle-Back Mountains above 2000 feet. At tiiis season 

 tliej were very confiding, and seemed to take great pride in introducing 

 me to their la'rge and noisy families. 



Ank, Vl. April, 1889. p. 105 ■ 



Mt ''F atatic — - In a denso dark forest of black spruces 

 on the Y/estern side of the mountain I heard a Winter Wren, June 

 2Vth^ at an ele-'ation of about 1000 feet,. The bird sang once- in a 

 gully v/here I did not hear it distinctly, but a moment later re- 

 peated the per rormance v/ithin thirty yards of me. Altough v;e vis- 

 ited these woods several times afterv/ards, v/e did not again hear 

 this bird or any others of its kind. 



ATik, XIII. April, 1898, p-Z/S^- 



On the i6th of Xovember I noledyin the same locality a Winter Wren 

 {,Tvoglodytes hiemalis) and on the a^h^^^^tTfthtnk, the'same bird. This 

 is another record of the wintering of this species near Boston, Mass. 



Probable breeding of the Winter Wren {Anorthiira troglodytes 

 hiemalis) IN Eastern Massachusetts.— Mr. George O. Welch tells 

 me that a pair of Winter Wrens once passed the breeding season in a 

 hemlock grove near Lynn. He first noticed them about the middle of 

 May, when their actions led him to suspect that they were preparing to 

 breed. During subsequent visits — which extended well into June — he 

 rarely failed to hear the song of the male, and frequently its mate would 

 be seen hopping in and out among some holes under the hemlock 

 roots. He feels sure that they had a nest in one of these holes but all 

 his efforts to discover it proved fruitless. At length, about the loth of 

 June, he shot both birds, thus definitely settling their identity. 



The authenticity of the above facts is open to no doubt. They do not 

 prove, of course, that these Wrens actually nested, but such an inference 

 is, to say the least, highly probable. Assuming it granted, the occur- 

 rence must still be regarded as exceptional, for the breeding-range 

 of the Winter Wren is sufficiently well known to preclude any serious 

 question of its availability as a " test species" of the Canadian Fauna. — 

 William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Bull. N, O. O. 8. Apli. 1883. p. // ^ . 



