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sweet and clear, and various minor but equally expressive 
notes (among them a simple ¢sip), as well as certain guttural 
cries, one of which sounds like a rapid utterance of the French 
phrase ‘“‘tout de suite,” and is indicative, as it were, of the 
restless disposition of these birds. 
The Chickadees are universal favorites, and no birds have a 
better right to be than these social and happy pygmies. Ihave 
invariably found them to be very amiable, rarely disputing one 
with another, but Wilson considered them quarrelsome, and 
speaks of having followed one, the singularity of whose notes 
surprised him. Having shot it, he found its skull fractured 
(as he supposed by a companion) but afterwards healed. One 
passed the winter in my neighborhood whose chant may be 
tolerably well expressed by the syllables “‘ chick-a-pu-pu-pu,” 
the latter notes being somewhat like those of a Canary-bird, 
but there is no reason to believe that his cranium was cracked. 
(B) uupsontus. Hudsonian Chickadee. Hudson Bay Chick- 
adee. ; 
(a). About five inches long. ‘Pale olive-brown; crown 
similar, but browner; below on sides, and behind, pale chest- 
nut.” ‘Chin and throat brownish-black.” 
(c). The Hudson Bay Titmice pass the summer in Arctic 
countries (and in north-eastern Maine?) usually penetrating 
northern New England in cold weather only. Their habits 
resemble those of the common Chickadees. ‘‘Mr. Brewster 
took a single specimen at Concord, Massachusetts, on October 
29th, 1870,” the only recorded instance of their capture in this 
State. 
(d). Their song-note is harsher and “ more quickly given” 
than that of our Chickadees.!6 
§5. Sittings. Nuthatches. (See § 4.) 
i SITTA 
(A) carottnensis. White-breasted Nuthatch. White-bellied 
Nuthatch. 
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