LAND BIRDS. 



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Fi" 149. Hudsonian Chickadee. From Coues' Key to North 

 "' American Birds, 5th Edition, 1903. Dana Estes & Co. 



more recent observers 



have failed to verify this 



statement. Cabot's hst 



of 1850 includes it, and 



G. A. Stock well, in his 



Forest and Stream notes 



on Michigan birds, says: 



"Found abundantly in 



the Upper Peninsula 



and around Mackinac; 



rarer in the Lower 



Peninsula; occasionally 



seen in St. Clair and 



Lapeer counties; possi- 

 bly further south" (F. 



& S., Vol. 8, No. 17, p. 



261). This is entirely 

 contrary to our own 

 experience, and very few 

 of our observers or cor- 

 respondents have reported it in recent years. Mr. O. B. Warren of Palmer, 

 Marquette county, in 1898 wrote "Am doubtful of any authentic record 

 of this bird's capture, as the ground has been worked over where this 

 bird was formerly reported, and since it is a resident where generally 

 found, I think it highly improbable that it ever wandered to Michigan. 

 Kumlien and Hollister state that it is a rare winter visitant in southern 

 Wisconsin, and that Dr. H. V. Ogden of Milwaukee "saw several and shot 

 one in Iron county (Michigan), but unfortunately did not preserve the 

 skins" (Birds of Wisconsin, p. 125). In response to a request for further 

 information Mr. N. Hollister wrote, February 7, 1905: "Regarding this 

 species there can be no doubt of its occurrence in Michigan. I have seen 

 it myself in Vilas county. Wis., near the Michigan line, and Dr. Ogden 

 of Milwaukee has taken it since, he tells me, in the northern tier of counties 

 (Wis.), and now has a specimen or specimens." 



More positive testimony comes from Mr. E. A. Doolittle of Painesville, 

 Ohio, who states that he found a pair in a tamarack swamp near Negaunce, 

 Marquette county, Michigan, in June 1905, and is positive that the birds 

 had a nest or young in the immediate vicinity. In 1906 Mr. Walter C. 

 Wood, of Detroit, spent the time from November 10 to December 5 on 

 the Cheneaux Islands in northern Lake Huron, off the shore of Mackinac 

 county, and during this time took several specimens of the Hudsonian 

 Chickadee, which were preserved for his collection. He says: "They 

 appeared with the first heavy snowfall, November 25, when a 

 seen. They became very common by the 28th, and Captain 

 forms me that they arc the most abundant winter ])ird and very tame, 

 in fact more so than atricapilUis, ami more ojften^come about Jhe hoii_sc 



specimen or tnis oirci irom mv. rj. r..jMt-uster, 

 of Iron Mountain, Dickinson county, which was taken in the immediate 

 vicinity. This gives us three positive records for as many different counties, 

 all in the Upper Peninsula. 



Apparently there is no reason why this species should not occur regularly 

 in the spruce and hemlock forests of the northern parts of the state, since 



few were 

 Pollock in- 



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and feed from the door-step (Wilson Bulletin, No. 58, March,^ 1907, p. 2 

 In March 1909 we received a specimen of this bird from INIr. E. E.Brewst 



