_Troglodytes aëdon aëdon. Case 4, Fig. 63; Case 6, Fig. 70_
No introduction is needed to this feathered tenant
of many bird-lovers. L. 5.
_Range._ Nests from Virginia and Kentucky to
Canada; winters from South Carolina and lower
Mississippi Valley to Mexico.
Washington, common S.R., Apl. 13-Oct. 11.
Ossining, common S.R., Apl. 23-Oct. 14. Cambridge,
formerly abundant S.R., Apl. 28-Sept. 25; now rare
and local. N. Ohio, common S.R., Apl. 17-Oct. 5.
Glen Ellyn, S.R. in isolated pairs; Apl. 26-Oct.
13. SE. Minn., common S.R., Apl. 27-Sept. 18.
The familiar inhabitant of our bird-houses whose numbers seem limited
only by the nesting-sites we offer him. His little fountain of melody
bubbles forth irrepressibly to cheer his mate or challenge a rival. With
the exhaustless energy of their kind they fill their nest-box with
twigs, grasses and feathers, wherein are laid 6-8 minutely and evenly
speckled pinkish eggs.