The Winter Wren breeding in Southern New York. — Six miles 

 south of Ithaca, N. Y., and leading eastward from Enfield Falls into the 

 Cayuga Valley, is a beautiful glen. It is long, deep, and narrow, with 

 steeply diverging walls rising, on either side, some three hundred feet 

 above the bed of the stream. Large hemlock, pine, and beech trees are 

 so closely crowded together in it as to preclude effectually the sun's rays, 

 and, with the stream running below them, to secure for the glen a tem- 

 perature and humidity not unlike what is to be found in the forests of 

 Northern Wisconsin. 



In company with my friends, F. H. Severance and W. Trelease, I 

 paid a visit to this glen June 21, 1878. Just below the Falls, where 

 the glen widens, a group of five Winter Wrens {Anorthura troglodytes var. 

 hyemaUs) were discovered darting in and out of a brush-pile which laj"- a 

 short distance back from the stream. On securing one of these, it was 

 found to be a fully fledged young bird, but so immature as to leave no 

 doubt that it was one of a brood which had been reared in the glen. 



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