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eat a great many leaf rollers and other insects during the< winter season; J. E. 

 Nichols, of Lansing, has this bird in his collection taken in September, 1881; 

 he has often taken it about Lansing in fall and spring. 



325-73o-(44). Parus atriesipillus Li?m. * Chickadee; Blaok-capped Chickadee. 



Very common; throughout the entire state; every month of the year; "very common 

 at Ann Arbor" (J. B. Steere); '-resident in Monroe Co., but much more com- 

 mon in winter " (Jerome Trombley); "no summer record at Bay City, but found 

 at all other seasons" (N. A. Eddy); "Grand Traverse Co." (M. L. Leach); •' com- 



Black-capped Chickadee, reduced, 



mon resident at Albion and St. -Joseph, and seen every month of the year 

 at Palmer, Marquette Co." (O. B. Warren); " Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); 

 "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "very common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); 

 " common at Bay City in the spring, 1884 " (N. A. Eddy in O. and O., Vol. IX, 

 p. 41); breeds; nests in a hole in a tree or stump; "breeds year after year in 

 same nest where they may roost in winter" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); "breeds at 

 Traverse City" (L. W. Watkins); "have found full sets of eggs in winter" (Dr. 

 W. C. Brownell); eggs Ave or six, eight taken by Gilbert White in Kent Co., May, 

 1892, ten young found in nest by F. M. Falconer, white specked with brown; 

 " this bird is very familiar, may alight on a person " (E. L. Moseley, Forest and 

 Stream, September, 1886); Dr. Atkins reported seeing them eat tent caterpillars 

 extensively'. 



3*26-740(49). Pariis Iindsonious Forst Hudsoniaw Chickadee. 



Rare; "Northern Michigan" (Dr. A. K. Fisher); "a rare winter resident of 

 Northern Michigan" (H. Nehrling); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); in Cabot's 

 list of Birds of Upper Peninsula. 



