In our work on Ihite Top Mountain in Juno* 193& wo 
made search for winter wrens without finding them, con¬ 
cluding finally that if present they were rare and local 
since the woods of this mountain on the whole are too dry 
to offer than an agreeable habitat* Further search for 
these birds was on® of the objectives of our visit during 
the first day® of June, 1937 to Mt, Rogers, adjacent to 
fhite Top in Grayson County, Virginia, 
In our first search through the heavy woods over 
the summit of tee mountain we failed to find winter wrens 
but on June 3 were more fortunate. Almost Immediately on 
entering tee woods we heard the low sweet-toned, somewhat 
uncertainly phrased notes of tee song of this species coming 
from dens# tangles of fallen trees overgrown with brambles 
where the birds kept entirely concealed though often only a 
few feet away from us* After a careful stalk of over an 
a male 
hour we collected one specimen/* Search in tee tJ, S, 
National Museum revealed two more specimens secured an tee 
summit of Mt* Rogers by Harvey Davis on July 7, 1903 during 
work for John W* Daniel, Jr* and presented to tee Museum 
by tee latter* These were two females, one being adult 
and the other a bird in Juvenal plumage recently from tee 
nest. 
