Troglodytes hionalIs 
Lake Umbagog, Maine 
Be autifal song. 
May 50. 
/This early morning fvir nearly half an hour I heard two 
Winter Wrens singing within a few rods of me, one on either 
side and one beginning just after the other stopped. They 
fairly flooded the woods with their rare music. As I stood 
listening, thrilled by the wonderfully loud, clear notes as 
they flowed on, now smoothly and rapidly, next halting or 
tripping a little, I doubted if, after all, North America 
possesses a finer little bird mueieian than the Winter Wren- 
provided he^heard in the depths of one of these northern for¬ 
ests when the air is perfectly still and the listener not over 
twenty yards away. Certainly it is the most satisfying; song 
we have 
May 50. 
1899. 
Oxford County, Maine. 
Troglodytes hiemalis . Sept.29, one, Bethel 
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