CHICKADEE. 
Vivace Thrice Svea. 
Owee-dee, swee-deo, swee-dee. 
The call sick-a-dee, dee, dee 1s also higher pitched and more 
lively than that of the other species. 
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Vivace Thrice 8va... 
Sich-a dee-dee- dee-dee 
Mr. Chapman describes the whistled call as resembling the 
words my watcher key, my watcher key. 
Hudsonian The Hudsonian, or, as it is sometimes 
ceackauce called, the Acadian Chickadee, is a sub- 
Penthestes : bfets ; : 
Ridvonicus species distinctively boreal in character. 
littoralis The range of this Chickadee is from 
L.5.00 inches northern Quebec and Newfoundland south 
November 1st +) the borders of the extreme north- 
to April rst adie 
eastern States; on these borders it is 
often found in association with the Black-capped Chicka- 
dee, especially in the fall and winter. It is a permanent 
resident of the spruce forests in the mountain regions of 
northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; 
in summer among the White and Green Mountains it 
remains in the upper spruce belts at an altitude of about 
three thousand feet, rarely visiting the valleys before 
October, and then usually in the company of the Black- 
cap. The appearance of the Hudsonian is wholly different 
from that of the Black-cap; the head is not black but brown. 
The coloring—to use the artist’s expression—is very much 
warmer. Upper parts a dilute burnt umber brown, or brown 
ash, head a ruddier tone, wings and tail a warm gray, under 
parts and neck dull white, sides a reduced ruddy umber. 
Nest built of mosses and dried grass lined with fine hairs and 
plant down, the egg similar to that of the Black-cap. 
The notes of the Hudsonian Chickadee are a bit lower in 
pitch and more deliberate than those of the Black-cap, the 
song itself assuming the character of a weak but sweet 
rippling medley not unlike some of the indecisive notes of 
a 
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