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cliiisetts. In 1884 Mr. William Brewster found the bird breed- 
ing in Wincliendon, another large and very well-wooded AVorcest- 
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 N. liiemalis before 1883, in Lynn, made by the late 
Greorge O. AA^elch; and the very important and recent record of 
a nest of this species in Khode Island, only a few miles from the 
sea, found by that indefatigable nest-hnnter, Mr. Harry Hatha- 
way of Providence. These ^^eastern’’ breeding cases of M. Mem- 
alls may be wholly accidental ; but M^inchendon at least has a 
lot of spruce and balsam, and adjoins Kindge, N. H., another 
town with plenty of spruce and hr and other northern plants. 
Professor R. T. Fisher, director of the Harvard Forest, him- 
self was the hrst to note the M^inter 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 he knows every nook and corner of his 1,775 acres of 
woods. For the hrst time in his experience he heard on July 2 
of this year the song of the Winter W^ren in Petersham. The 
bird Avas 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 SAvanip 
Avhere Ave all saAV and heard to onr heart’s content the AA'inter 
MA'en as he rnmmaged around among the fallen trees, stumps, 
rocks and underbrush. This hemlock swamp has a rocky bot- 
tom, more or less, and a sphagnm carpet, and the ground is 
cumbered Avith many up-tnrned trees. It is perhaps one-half acre 
in extent, and lies in one of the extensive Harvard Forest ^Tracts,” 
Avith the foaming East Branch of the SAvift river close by. On 
July 3 the oxalis was still in bloom in this relatively cool place. 
We noted a 25-foot mountain ash and some black ash, together 
Avith monntain maple and yelloAV birch and more or less rather 
loAV and scattering taxus. 
Professor Fisher tells me that the Pileated AVoodpecker 
{PMxeotomus pileatus aMeticola) is a resident species in Peter- 
sham, and that he considers it to be pretty nearly a common bird 
althongh never of course abundant. It should be recalled in 
this connection that about 70 per cent of the large toAvn 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 AA^oodpecker ” 
Avas not a resident here. 
