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sweet and clear, and various minor but equally expressive 

 notes (among them a simple tsip), as well as certain guttural 

 cries, one of which sounds like a rapid utterance of the French 

 phrase "tout de suite," and is indicative, as it were, of the 

 restless disposition of these birds. 



The Chickadees are universal favorites, and no birds have a 

 better right to be than these social and happy pygmies. I have 

 invariably found them to be very amiable, rarely disputing one 

 with another, but Wilson considered them quarrelsome, and 

 speaks of having followed one, the singularity of whose notes 

 surprised him. Having shot it, he found its skull fractured 

 (as he supposed by a companion) but afterwards healed. One 

 passed the winter in my neighborhood whose chant may be 

 tolerably well expressed by the syllables " chick-a-pu-pu-pu" 

 the latter notes being somewhat like those of 'a Canary-bird, 

 but there is no reason to believe that his cranium was cracked. 



(B) HUDSONIUS. Hudsonian Chickadee. Hudson Bay Chick- 

 adee. 



(a). About five inches long. "Pale olive-brown; crown 

 similar, but browner ; below on sides, and behind, pale chest- 

 nut." "Chin and throat brownish-black." 



(c). The Hudson Bay Titmice pass the summer in Arctic 

 countries (and in north-eastern Maine?) usually penetrating 

 northern New England in cold weather only. Their habits 

 resemble those of the common Chickadees. "Mr. Brewster 

 took a single specimen at Concord, Massachusetts, on October 

 29th, 1870," the only recorded instance of their capture in this 

 State. 



(d). Their song-note is harsher and "more quickly given" 

 than that of our Chickadees. 16 / ' , ti^l 



5. Sittinse. Nuthatches. (See 4.) 

 I. SITTA 



(A) CAROLINENSIS. White-breasted Nuthatch. White-bellied 

 Nuthatch. 



"Maynard. 



