FAMILY Par /(to. 



live all the year around and some may be found 

 fearless enough to eat from one's hand. Not long ago I 

 received a snap-shot picture of the little bird perched 

 upon the hand of the good Hermit of Gloucester, a man 

 who is on intimate terms with the birds of that region. 

 This particular little fellow had more wits than one 

 would naturally attribute to such an insignificant bunch 

 of feathers, and when, one cold winter's day, the friendly 

 hand offered him some much- prized hemp-seed he gladly 

 accepted the invitation, and attempted to wrestle with 

 the big, hard slippery things; but he was so unsuccess- 

 ful that several were lost in the snow. Then the little 

 fellow resolved to take no more risks, so he carefully 

 took the next seed in his bill, flew away to a neighbor- 

 ing tree, jammed it firmly in a crevice of the bark, and 

 pegged away at it until the hard shell was broken and he 

 obtained the sweet meat within 1 That is indeed living 

 by one's wite ! 



Carolina This species is largely a permanent n>si- 



Chickadee dent of tne sou theastern United St:it-->. 

 farolinensis mostly the Gulf States, and is very common 

 L. 4.60 inches about Washington, D. C. The northern 

 All the year limit of its range is central Missouri, Indiana, 

 Central Ohio, Pennsylvania, and central New Jersey. It is a 

 trifle smaller than the common Chickadee of the North, 

 and in mountain districts the ranges of the two birds over- 

 lap. In color the Carolina Chickadee is similar to the 

 other bird, but the feathers of the wings below the shoulder 

 (the greater wing-coverts) are not margined with gray- 

 white, and the wing and tail have less white on the outer 

 vanes of the feathers, a significant though not very pro- 

 nounced difference. The nest and eggs are similar to 

 those of the other species which it displaces absolutely in 

 Florida. 



The Carolina Chickadee does not possess the deliberate, 

 clearly whistled two notes of the common Chickadee, but 

 in their place sings a somewhat monotonous and plaintive 

 swce-dec, swee-dee thus: 



