168 Wricut, Labrador Chickadee at Boston and V: icinity. [ fen: 
November 20, they apparently had passed south, for, although I 
have been in the woods for a considerable time once each week since 
that date, I have heard the notes of only two stragglers... .. 
“This has been the best season in many years here for winter 
birds. Redpolls, Snow Buntings, Pine and Evening Grosbeaks, 
and White-winged Crossbills came unusually early and are abun- 
dant.” 
Mr. Kirk in a subsequent letter states that he saw one of the 
Northern Chickadees on January 14 at Rutland. 
Mr. Richard M. Marble of Woodstock also gives interesting 
Vermont testimony in a letter received from him, in which under 
date of January 14, 1917, he states, “An Acadian Chickadee has 
been a visitor to Mr. Fred Dana’s feeding station since November, 
and possibly before,” and he adds, “also a wintering White- 
throated Sparrow. Doesn’t this locality seem a little far north for 
that bird to be wintering? Undoubtedly a home-made feeding 
station, which is always well supplied with food, has much to do 
with his stay. A Junco is almost always with him. We have all 
the winter visitants with us now and in fairly good numbers. I see 
almost every day in some large box elders on our lawn three Evening 
Grosbeaks. Pine Grosbeaks, of which there seem to be more adult 
males than usual, are quite common, as are both Crossbills and 
Redpolls.”’ 
In a later letter Mr. Marble writes: “If one is able to distinguish 
between the nigricans type, as described by Dr. Townsend, and the 
littoralis type by the brown on the sides, the Northern Chickadee 
which is wintering with us is unmistakably littoralis. The brown 
on its sides is very red and conspicuous. It also seems to me that 
the back shows quite a brownish tint.” May not this Woodstock 
bird be a northern New England resident, and, therefore, as such 
definitely littoralis, attracted to the feeding station in its wander- 
ings, and remaining a constant visitor because so well cared for? 
As indicating the time of the southward movement reaching 
northern New England, it may be stated that before my departure 
from my summer home at Jefferson Highland, New Hampshire, 
October 11, I had seen several individuals in that locality. The 
records are one bird on the first day of the month, three on the 
fourth day, one on the fifth, and one on the tenth. These records 
