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chusetts. Tn 1884 Mr. William Brewster found the bird breed- 
ing- in Wineliendon, another large and very well-wooded Worcest- 
er Co. town lying to the north of Petersham and on the New 
Hampshire state line. There is also the still older record of the 
breeding of A. hiemaUs before 1883, in Lynn, made by the late 
George (). Welch; and the very important and recent record of 
a nest of this species in Rhode Island, only a few miles from the 
sea, found by that indefatigable nest-hunter, Mr. Harry Hatha- 
way of Providence. These “eastern” breeding cases of A . hiem- 
alis mav be wholly accidental; but Wineliendon at least has a 
lot of spruce and balsam, and adjoins Kludge, X. H., another 
town with plenty of spruce and fir and other northern plants. 
Professor R. T. Fisher, director of the Harvard Forest, him- 
self was the first to note the Winter Wren in Petersham. A 
former member of the U. S. Biological Survey Professor Fisher 
is ornithologist as well as forester. As director of the Harvard 
Forest lie knows every nook and corner of his 1,775 acres of 
woods. For the first time in his experience he heard on July 2 
of this year the song of the Winter Wren in Petersham. The 
bird was in a small hemlock swamp in one of the Harvard 
Forest tracts. On July 3, in company with Professor Fisher 
and Mr. R. L. Coffin of Amherst, I visited this hemlock swamp 
where we all saw and heard to our heart’s content the Winter 
Wren as he rummaged around among the fallen trees, stumps, 
rocks and underbrush. This hemlock swamp lias a rocky bot- 
tom, more or less, and a sphagum carpet, and the ground is 
cumbered with many up-turned trees. It is perhaps one-lmlf acre 
in extent, and lies in one of the extensive Harvard Forest “tracts,” 
with the foaming East Branch of the Swift river close by. On 
July 3 the oxalis was sfill in bloom in this relatively cool place. 
We noted a 25-foot mountain ash and some black ash, together 
with mountain maple and yellow birch and more or less rather 
low and scattering taxus. 
Professor Fisher tells me that the Pileated Woodpecker 
(Phlwotomus pileatus abieticola) is a resident species in Peter- 
sham, and that lie considers it to be pretty nearly a common bird 
although never of course abundant. It should be recalled in 
this connection that about 70 per cent of the large town of 
Petersham is wooded country and that a good percentage of 
this is old heavy timber. Therefore, it would be strange indeed 
if such a timber-loving species as the big “ Black Woodpecker” 
was not a resident here. 
