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The call xick-a-dee, dee, dee is also higher pitched and more 

 lively than that of the other species. 



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Sick-d. dee -dee- dee -dee 

 Mr. Chapman describes the whistled call as resembling the 

 words my watcher key, my watcher key. 



Hudsonian The Hudsonian, or, as it is sometimes 

 Chickadee called the Acadian Chickadee, is a sub- 



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hudsonicus species distinctively boreal m character. 

 uttoralis The range of this Chickadee is from 



L. s-oo inches northern Quebec and Newfoundland south 

 November ist ^ the Borders of the extreme north- 

 to April ist ., . 

 eastern States; on these borders it is 



often found in association with the Black-capped Chicka- 

 dee, especially in the fall and winter. It is a permanent 

 resident of the spruce forests in the mountain regions of 

 northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; 

 in summer among the White and Green Mountains it 

 remains in the upper spruce belts at an altitude of about 

 three thousand feet, rarely visiting the valleys before 

 October, and then usually in the company of the Black- 

 cap. The appearance of the Hudsonian is wholly different 

 from that of the Black-cap; the head is not black but brown. 

 The coloring to use the artist's expression is very much 

 warmer. Upper parts a dilute burnt umber brown, or brown 

 ash, head a ruddier tone, wings and tail a warm gray, under 

 parts and neck dull white, sides a reduced ruddy umber. 

 Nest built of mosses and dried grass lined with fine hairs and 

 plant down, the egg similar to that of the Black-cap. 



The notes of the Hudsonian Chickadee are a bit lower in 

 pitch and more deliberate than those of the Black-cap, the 

 song itself assuming the character of a weak but sweet 

 rippling medley not unlike some of the indecisive notes of 



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