v. 7. SE.
Minn., common T.V., rare W.V., Sept. 22-Apl. 3.

The Winter Wren comes to us from the North when the House Wren leaves
for the South and remains with us until the House Wren returns in the
spring. But one by no means takes the place of the other. The Winter
Wren is a wood Wren that lives in fallen tree-tops, old brush-piles or
similar retreats, and his nervous _chimp, chimp_, as with cocked-up tail
he hops into view for a second, is like the call of the Song Sparrow
rather than the scolding note of most Wrens; nor does his rippling,
trickling song resemble the House Wren's sudden outburst.

The nest is built in the roots of a tree or similar location. The 5-7
eggs, laid in early June, are white, finely, but rather sparingly
speckled with brownish.

SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN

_Cistothorus stellaris. Case 8, Fig. 80_

Smallest of our Wrens; the head and back streaked
with white. L. 4.

_Range._ Nests from central Missouri and northern
Delaware to Saskatchewan and southern Maine;
winters from southern Illinois and southern New
Jersey to the Gulf.

Washington, very rare T.V., two instances, May.
Ossining, rare S.R., to Oct. 16. Cambridge,
formerly locally common S.R., May 12-Sept. 25; now
chiefly T.V. N. Ohio, rare, May 12, 14, 16 and 19.
Glen Ellyn, fairly common S.R., May 8-Oct. 17. SE.
Minn., common S.R., May 13-Sept. 19.

Although we have only six species of Wrens in the eastern United States,
they are so unlike in their choice of haunts that few localities which
will afford them the hiding places they all love are without one or more
of them. The House and Bewick's Wrens make their homes near ours; the
Carolina and Winter Wrens prefer the woods; the Long-billed Marsh Wren's
haunts have given him his name, and if we should call the present
species Meadow Wren, its home would be similarly indicated, for it lives
in wet, grassy places rather than among the cat-tails.

Ernest Seton describes its note as resembling the sound produced by
striking two pebbles together, while its song is a series of _chaps_,
running into _chap-r-r-rrr_. The globular nest is built on the ground,
and the 6-8 eggs, laid in May, are usually pure white.

LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN

_Telmatodytes palustris palustris. Case 8, Fig. 79_

Darker and larger than the Short-billed Marsh