. [Collected reprints, 1895-1916. Birds. COMMON BIEDS OF SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. Spiders are acceptable and are captured every month in the season. The wren finds these when searching under piles of lumber or brush, stone walls, hollow logs, out- houses, and sheds. They aggregate per cent of the food, and in March per cent. Millepeds (thousand-legs) form a part ( per cent) of the food of the first four months of the year, six-sevenths of them being eaten in April. Other creatures, as sowbugs and snails, were found in a few stomachs, but are a negligible quantity. No accusati
. [Collected reprints, 1895-1916. Birds. COMMON BIEDS OF SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. Spiders are acceptable and are captured every month in the season. The wren finds these when searching under piles of lumber or brush, stone walls, hollow logs, out- houses, and sheds. They aggregate per cent of the food, and in March per cent. Millepeds (thousand-legs) form a part ( per cent) of the food of the first four months of the year, six-sevenths of them being eaten in April. Other creatures, as sowbugs and snails, were found in a few stomachs, but are a negligible quantity. No accusation has been brought against the wren that it harms fruit or other farm products. Both field observation and stomach examination show that it consumes great numbers of noxious insects, thereby benefiting the farmer and gardener. It is a cheery, bustling little creature to have about the homestead and should be thoroughly pro- tected. Put up a box where cats can not get at it and the wren will pay good rent.—p. b. l. b. CAROLINA The Carolina wren (fig. 3) is resident from the Gulf of Mexico north to the southern boundaries of Iowa, Illinois, and Con- necticut in the breeding season, but in winter with- draws somewhat farther south. It is a bird of the thicket and undergrowth, preferring to place its nest in holes and crannies but when necessary will build a bulky structure in a tangle of twigs and vines. Unlike the house wren it does not ordinarily use the structures of man for nesting sites. It is one of the few American birds that sing throughout the year. Most birds sing, or try to, in the mating sea- son, but the Carolina wren may be heard pouring forth his melody of song every month. The writer's first introduction to this bird was in the month of January when he heard gushing from a thicket a song which reminded him of June instead of midwinter. This wren keeps up the reputation of the family as an insect eater, as over nme- tenths of its diet consists of insects a
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