CHICKADEE. 
i — ae Fa ATT 
Yank! Yank! Yank! 
Yank! Yank — Yank-ee! Yank-ee! — Yank! Yank! Yankt 
The tone is a clear falsetto, best imitated by pinching 
the nose and singing the note staccato, with as much of 
the nasal quality as one can putinit. That is about all 
that can be said about this bird’s remarkable voice ex- 
| cept that it is really much lower than that of any of 
the woodland singers, and much nearer the sonorous 
nasal twang of the ’way-down-East Yankee farmer’s 
wife when she lifts up her voice to call ‘‘ Dan,” the boy 
who goes for the ‘‘ Caows.” 
But what a plucky little sprite this tiny, animated 
bunch of gray feathers is, that he can brave our severe 
northern winters with impunity! Even as I write this 
book he has been cavorting about the trunk of the old 
elm just beside the window, with the mercury indicating 
a degree or two above zero! One wonders what he ex- 
pected to find good to eat! 
Chickadee The Chickadee is an all-the-year-around 
Parus . “ . : = 
Beet Pbensiviia bird, attractive in appearance, lively in 
L. 5.25 inches ovement, and more than pleasing in the 
Allthe year simplicity of its song. The top and the 
back of the head well down are jet black; throat also 
black; sides ‘of the head and neck white; breast and un- 
der parts graded from white to a buffish tone; back and 
other parts an ashen gray, with the larger feathers 
of wing and tail margined with white. The sexes do 
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