38 Wright, Labrador Chickadee in Migration. \i&n. 



from such haunts as ' hudsonicus ' lives in and were without question 

 migrating. While I was not able to ascertain the subspecific type 

 in either of these cases, the presumption is that it was nigricans, 

 since that was the type present in the fall and winter, as ascertained 

 by Dr. Townsend, 1 which appeared in some abundance and moved 

 on southward to Long Island, Staten Island, and New Jersey. 



Mr. H. H. Cleaves writes me that one of the four Staten Island 

 Labrador Chickadees learned to eat from one of his cocoanut 

 feeders before starting north, the other three birds having left 

 early, some time in January or early February. 



Other May records of ' hudsonicus ' furnished me were these : two 

 birds seen by Mr. Harold S. King with three Black-capped Chicka- 

 dees at Waverley on May 6 [TownsendJ; two birds seen in the 

 Arnold Arboretum by H. L. Barrett on May 13; one bird seen 

 by Mr. Francis H. Allen on his place at West Roxbury on May 18; 

 one heard at Woodstock, Vermont, by Mr. Richard M. Marble on 

 May 14. Mr. Allen writes, "I followed it [hudsonicus] about for 

 some time, getting plenty of views of it, but none where I could 

 compare the crown with the back to determine the subspecies. 

 I had heard the bird — or another of the same kind — a few days 

 before, but had not seen it." And Mr. Marble informs me that 

 the lunch-counter-feeding brown-capped Chickadee at Woodstock, 

 mention of which was made in my paper on Labrador Chickadee in 

 'The Auk' for April, 1917, a typical littoralis, disappeared about 

 the first of April. So the May bird observed by him was presum- 

 ably a migrant. 



Mr. H. Mousley of Hatley, Province of Quebec, through Dr. 

 Townsend furnishes exact testimony as to the subspecific type of 

 the migrant birds found there. Dr. Townsend received two 

 Labrador Chickadees in the flesh from Mr. Mousley taken by 

 the latter at Hatley on May 14. Later he received another speci- 

 men of nigricans taken at the same place by Mr. Mousley on May 16. 

 Dr. Townsend writes me, "On May 21 Mr. Mousley took three 

 more 'typical nigricans'' which he sent to the Victoria Memorial 

 Museum at Ottawa." And subsequently Dr. Townsend wrote 

 me, " Mr. Mousley took another cf nigricans at Hatley on May 30." 



i Auk, vol. XXXIV, April, 1917, p. 160. 



