Chickadee. Black-Capped Titmouse 



It fairly overflows with good spirits, and is never more 

 contagiously gay than in a snow-storm. 



Neltje Blanch an. Bird Neighbors. ^^ 



His jollity is absolutely contagious. The man that can 

 listen to his rollicking outburst and not smile in sympathy, 

 mark my words, that man is a villain He pre- 

 sents a very practical claim upon our admiration in the 

 fact that, from a series of careful observations once made 

 at Paris, it has been estimated that a single specimen of 

 this species, at the lowest computation, destroys annually 

 two hundred thousand eggs alone of noxious insects. 



Parkhurst. The Birds' Calendar.^^ 



They are never silent. It is a matter of chick-a-dee-dee, 

 or tsee-deet, or phe-bee, all the day long, the last of the 

 three notes perhaps being a love-call. 



Abbott. Birds About Us.^^ 



There is no sorrow in thy song, 



No winter in thy year. Emerson. 



The Titmouse 



You shall not be overbold 

 When you deal with Arctic cold. 

 As late I found m}^ lukewarm blood 

 Chilled, wading in the snow-choked wood, 

 How should I fight? my foeman fine 

 Has million arms to one of mine : 



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