[ Auk 
170 Wricut, Labrador Chickadee at Boston and Vicinity. April 
- 14, 1917, and one taken at Plainfield, New Jersey, on December 31, 
1916. Other southern records in this 1916 migration, which have 
been already published,! are of one bird on November 6 at Rhine- 
beck, New York, and one on November 13 at Hewlett, Long 
Island. 
Golden-crowned Kinglets have proved to be the closest compan- 
ions of these Northern Chickadees on many occasions. Indeed, 
they seem to be their natural associates. Black-capped Chicka- 
dees are rather their incidental companions, with whom they 
occasionally come in touch, but do not habitually move. Casual 
associates on the cedar-grown pastures of Belmont Hill were a 
Palm Warbler on November 9 and December 9, a full-plumaged 
male Cape May Warbler and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet on Novem- 
ber 20. The individuals which have come under my notice have 
usually been quite silent, giving their characteristic calls infre- 
quently, and so revealing their presence but little. On this account 
it is quite probable that more individuals have been present on 
some occasions than have been enumerated and the numbers actu- 
ally recorded fail to adequately express the size of the migration. 
They may be regarded, however, as serving to suggest its extent 
and for illustration. 
1 Auk, vol. XXXIV, Jan., 1917, p. 91. 
