General Notes. | 



The Winter Wren a Night Singer. —In the long list of birds that 

 sing in the night I do not remember to have seen the name of the Winter 

 Wren. That it semetimes sings on clear wintry days during its tem- 

 porary sojourn in the vicinity of Philadelphia is probably well known to 

 certain favored people. A bird of this species has for several years made 

 the fastnesses of a thick hemlock hedge in my yard at Haddonfield, N. J., 

 his winter home, and he sometimes favors me with a song in the early 

 morning, even when the ground is covered with snow. Not content with 

 this, he surprised me the other night, about ten o'clock, by one of his 

 sweetest efforts. The song on this occasion was not so loud as that , 

 of more wakeful moments, but well-sustained for more than half the 

 usual duration of the nuptial song, and then falling into a scarcely 

 audible trill, as if the little dreamer had waked in the midst of his 

 vision and, like more human sleepers, was reluctant to believe its unreal- 

 ity. — Samuel N. Rhoads, Haddonfield, N. J. 



Auk XII. Jan. 1806 p; 84 



Birds of W»»t«rn North Carolina. 

 Observauona during -86. Q.B.Sennett 



Troglodytes hiemalis. Wintkr Wken - 'C-T^.r. ■ 

 Roan Mountain; at all hours rain or shin'.. "'^^ l'=''«"ns of 



bird couid be heard even ,>„m the ^^^..:.:v:TZ:::'r::;:r T 



heannglour "uiles at one time from as nruiy diir.M- ■„( i ■ 

 constantly in search of their nests • n I Vea , ' 

 '.uiUHn, material, and, bod to their '^^L^^Z •"''^■'"^ 

 only absent at long intervals IVon, the 2nr^ ^u^^T' T ' 

 close about me like a veil and 1 would be obli , '"'"'"t^"". would 

 way home again, always unsuccelll ' P™ct,cally fee, my 



Auk, 4. July 1687. p. 244 



The Singing of Birds. B.P.BiokneU. 



Anorthura troglodytes hiemalis. Winter Wren. 



A silent migrant with respect to song, though often amply 

 noisy with its ordinary notes, the movement of which fitly corres- 

 ponds with the excited bobbing of the little brown-plumaged body 

 from which they proceed. Once only have I heard its song in this 

 latitude — on November 21,-1880, a cold and wintry although 

 still morning. The song was three times repeated, and though 

 brief was sufficiently perfect to bring to mind the summer home 

 of its author in mountain forests ndrthward. In winter I have 

 found dark yellow fat encasing its small body. 



Auk, I. April. 1884, /J^. 



