Though the winter wren is recorded in the Fourth 
Edition of the A# 0. H# Check-list as breeding south in 
the mountains to Georgia little has been published of its 
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occurrence In summer in Virginia* Dr. V. C. Rives thought 
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Auk, 1889, p. 52 
that an unidentified song heard during the latter part of July, 
1888 near the summit of White Top Mountain was possibly this 
species. He did not succeed in seeing the bird, however, so 
that the record remains uncertain# In his Catalogue of the 
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Birds of the Virginias he writes of this species that "it is 
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Proc. Newport Nat. Hist, See,, Doc. VII, 1890, p# 89# 
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probably to be found also in summer near the tops of the highest 
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Virginia Mountains." Harold H# Bailey says "they breed in 
i n # 1 i.n» ■^i<sw»»#^«#wwill>##l#w#wsiw<>w»l#«<s>»w#«>i»«t.»ii»#i»ii#i>i i« #i»##si»>si<#iwwi#n##' | ii i K 
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Birds of Virginia, 1913* p« 331* 
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Giles, Grayson and Washington Countiest probably others in 
Alleghenian Range#" 
