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that of its rather noisy companion. This is, as far as I can find, the 
farthest south that one of this species has ever been recorded, and is also 
the first record for the state of Pennsylvania— Tuos. D. Bur.Leiau, State 
College, Pa. 
Hudsonian Chickadee on Long Island.— The Hudsonian Chickadee 
(Penthestes hudsonicus) has appeared,— as was expected in this season of 
its unwonted southward flight,— upon Long Island. 
On December 2, 1916, at Roslyn, Long Island, I was out searching for 
birds with Ogden Phipps, the eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. 
Phipps. We had heard Kinglets lisping in a patch of planted evergreens 
bordering a private roadway, and I was ‘ squeaking’ with my lips to call 
them. What came was a brown-capped Chickadee. He sat on the outer 
twigs of a small blue spruce, about four feet above the ground and less 
than four yards from where we stood. We saw him well, as he fidgeted 
about in various postures, inspecting us, for several seconds. He did not 
make a sound, however, and after he had dodged back into the evergreen 
thicket, we could not find him again. 
Immediately afterwards, though, we saw a White-winged Crossbill, 
which I understand is a rarity on Long Island and not recently recorded. 
This bird, a very dingy red (probably immature) male, perched in a tree- 
top in a deciduous wood near by, making his ‘ bleating’ call-note, and 
then flew, twittering, down to the evergreens where the Tit had been, and 
we watched him at almost as close range as we had watched the Tit. Both 
species are birds with which I am very familiar. The spot where these two 
appeared is on the estate of Mr. S. Mortimer, close to Mr. H. P. Whitney’s 
land. 
On Saturday, December 16, the morning after the big snowstorm, several 
of us made a long search, both in the same tract of evergreens and in neigh- 
boring tracts, but we found neither Tit nor Crossbill. Out party consisted 
of Messrs. Nichols and Griscom from the American Museum of Natural 
History, Ogden Phipps, and myself. We saw a Siskin, three Robins, 
several Juncos, and, in a hardwood tract, a lively gathering of Kinglets, 
Creepers, Nuthatches (both kinds) and a Downy Woodpecker. This 
seemed a likely company for the rare Tit, but we could not spot him. It 
was a bleak day and the birds were restless and not very talkative.— 
GeRALD H. Tuayer, Monadnock, N. H. 
