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General Notes. 
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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. 
The Winter Wren ( Anortkura troglodytes hiemalis) in Western 
Vermont. — In the northwestern part of the town of Brandon, lying 
along the bank of the Otter Creek, is a swamp some three miles in length 
and from one-half to one and one-half miles in breadth. Formerly this 
was all heavily timbered, but the timber has been largely removed and at 
this time but little of the “first-growth” remains; this is near the centre 
of the swamp. The swamp has an elevation above the sea of probably 
about 350 feet, and is overflowed by the creek during high water. On 
June 4 of last year (1882), while botanizing in the heavy “ first-growth,” 
my attention was attracted by a pair of Winter Wrens. They constantly 
darted in and out of a large brush-heap, scolding the while in true Wren 
fashion, and seemed very desirous that I should leave. A close examina- 
tion of the brush-heap and vicinity failed to reveal the site of the nest. 
On July 4 following, I again visited the locality, and about this same 
brush-heap saw old birds of this species feeding young but a day or two 
from the nest. This of course set at rest all doubt about their breeding 
here. I have never seen them in summer before. In the following Novem- 
ber I spent two days (24th and 25th) in this swamp and, to my surprise, 
saw a pair of these Wrens. Snow covered the ground to a depth of two 
inches or more, and the thermometer was but little above zero. The latest 
I have noted them before was the first part of October. — F. H. Knowl- 
ton, Middlebury, Vt. 
Troglodytes aedon parkmani in Kansas. — I have the pleasure 
of recording the first capture of this bird in Kansas. It was shot at 
Larned, Kansas, April 21, 1881, by Mr. Geo. C. Waterman (No. 3903 
and identified by Mr. Ridgway. — H. K. Coale, Chicago, III. 
Capture of the Great Carolina Wren ( Tkryothorus ludovic- 
ianus ) in Connecticut, in March. — A male of this species was shot 
here March 2, 1883, by Mr. Chas. H. Neff, and is now in his cabinet. 
It was in good condition — was in song and killed among the rocks on 
a wooded hillside. 
So far as I can learn, the only previously recorded capture of this Wren 
in Connecticut is the one taken by J. N. Clark at Saybrook, Nov. 25, 
1878 (see this Bulletin, Vol. IV, p. 61). — Jno. H. Sage, Portland , Conn. 
A second Instance of the Wintering of the Pine Warbler 
in Massachusetts. — To Mr. Browne’s recent record (this Bulletin, Vol. 
VII, p. 119), of the probable wintering of the Pine Warbler in this state, 
I can now add a second. On December 30, 1882, Mr. C. J. Maynard 
showed me a female Dendroeca flinus, in the flesh, which had been killed 
