CREEPERS. 
Alleghanies to North Carolina. It winters as far south as 
the Gulf coast. 
The Brown Creeper has no song in the strict sense of the 
word except it be the few plaintive notes which it utters in 
the nesting season; these are so thin in tone and so indeter- 
minate in pitch that they not infrequently escape notice 
altogether, or else the impression produced is of some dis- 
tant warbler’s desultory song. The notes are properly 
represented (adding Mr. Torrey’s syllabic form to my 
own) thus: 
Moderato iti Out. tent 
See, See me,see me, Se 
7 e, 
“sue, Suhy, Sully,” "Up 
The final plaintive note Mr. William Brewster likens to 
the ‘‘soft sighing of the wind among the pine boughs.’ 
Musically expressed this note drags down with a rallen- 
tando as most of the notes of the Meadow Lark do. The 
commoner call of the bird is a short, unobtrusive tsip 
which an attentive ear will often hear in the rugged spruces 
which flank the Adirondack and White Mountains, or 
among the trees which border the streets of our more 
northern villages. 
Family Paride. NUTHATCHES AND TITS. 
In this family are included two subfamilies, the Sit- 
tince, Nuthatches, and the Parine, Titmouse and Chicka- 
dees. The Nuthatches are climbing birds which creep 
_ down as well as up, and unlike the Woodpeckers do not 
use their tails as supports. These birds as well as the 
Chickadees have a habit of wedging seeds or nuts in the 
crevices of bark and cracking the shells thus securely 
held, with repeated pecks of their bills. The Nuthatches 
are entirely unmusical; but the Black-capped Chickadee 
has an extremely sweet and melodious though simple 
whistle. 
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