CHICKADEES 609 



and then decimated by a Shrike, Hawk or Owl, though usually 

 the Shrike is the only enemy quick enough to get a chance at 

 them. 



740. Parus hudsonicus Forst, Hudsonian Chickadee; 

 Hudsonian Titmouse. 



Plumage ; crown brownish gray, the back similar with a more ashy tinge 

 to it ; wings and tail slate gray, only slightly edged with whitish ; sides 

 washed with rufous ; ear coverts, sides of neck, the breast and belly white ; 

 chin and throat black. Wing 2.52 ; tail 2.55. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern North America, breeding from northern Maine 

 northward ; resident where found, a few rarely wandering southward to 

 Massachusetts. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; rare winter visitor, (Johnson). Aroos- 

 took ; rare summer resident of the Woolastook Valley and near Crystal, prob- 

 ably elsewhere, (Knight) ; not uncommon at Fort Kent, (Norton, J. M. 0. S. 

 1899, p. 7). Cumberland; rare, (Mead). Franklin; rare winter resident, 

 (Richards); seen in summer on Mt. Abraham, (Sweet). Hancock; winter 

 migrant, (Murch); breeds at least rarely, (Knight). Oxford; occurs at 

 Upton, (Brewster, B. N. 0. C. 3, p. 20). Penobscot; winter resident of vari- 

 able abundance, usually rare, (Knight). Piscataquis ; common winter visitor, 

 (Homer); found nesting at Dover, (Ritchie, Auk 1905, p. 87). Somerset; 

 common breeding bird between Northwest Carry and Hale Brook in late May, 

 1908, (Knight). Washington; not uncommon, a few breed, (Boardman). 



The species in question is practically non migratory^ but in 

 fall and winter occurs in roving bands, ranging over the country 

 and at such season a few rove into southern Maine and even 

 into Massachusetts. In northern and eastern Maine they are 

 not uncommon near our boundaries in winter, and a few re- 

 main to breed in the limited and local areas of the Hudsonian 

 fauna which are scattered through northern and eastern Maine. 

 In habits they do not greatly differ from the common Chick- 

 adee, though their call note is different. 



Mr. Ritchie found the species nesting near Dover, Maine, 

 and I have taken a very complete extract of his account of 

 this species nesting there from the Auk, 1905, p. 85-87. He 

 there writes as follows: — "There has been so little said or 

 written in relation to the breeding of this species that the 

 record of a nest with young discovered by the writer the present 



