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They iicst, like all the others of this genus, in holes in soft ilecuyed tnniks 

 and large? limbs oi" trees a lew feet from the ground. Their eggs are not as 

 yet known. 



Farus hudsonicus, Forst. 



HUDSON'S BAT CHICKADEE; BBOWK-CAPFED CHICKADEE. 



Pariis hudsiiiiicK.i, Fdiistki!, I'liilos. Trans. l.XII, 1772, HS.'t, 4:!0. — Am. Oni. Bioj^. II, 

 1834, 543, 111. (•xciv. — 111. Hiid.s Am. II, 1.S41, Im, pi. cxxviii. — lUiuii, Kiitl.s N. 

 Am. 18.')8, :!'.t,^); licvicw, 8'2. — S.\.MrKi..s, 18,".. - D.u.i. & H.VNNisrKinAliisku). I'drns 

 hutlMii kits \i\r. lit/onilix, liliYANl', I'r. Best. .Soc. N. II. IX. 1803, 308. 



Si". Cii.Mi. Above yi'lliwi.-^li olivnp('on.«-lirown ; top of liuiu! ])iircr brown, not very 

 tliU'i'ii'iit, in tint. Chin and throat dark .><c)oty-hrown. Sides of hoad white. I?eneath 

 while; sides and mial repjion lifiiit lirownish-chcstnut. No whitisii on win;;.'! or tail. 

 Tail nearly even, or slif^litly eniarginale and roundud. Lateral leathers abont .20 shortest. 

 Len<,'th abont 5 inehes; winjr, 2.40; tail, '2.(!(i. 



IIaii. Northern portions of North America, from Atlantic^ to l*aci(io. 



Sjiecimens from the most nortliern localities iiii])ear lai-gor than those from 

 Maine and Nova Scotia (/'. litloralis, HitVANT), witii luoportioiially longer 

 tails (li.OO inches, instead of 2.4(1). We can, however, detect no other 

 dilferencc. 



The J'dnix nibirii'iia of Kurope is very similar in colruation and characters 

 to tlie r. hii(lKoniii(-f. Tlic luincipal dilference is seen in the cheeks, which 

 in Htbiririts are pure wliite, this color extending along the entire side of tho 

 neck, widening behind, anil e.xteiitling round towards the back. In hinhoni- 

 vm the cheeks behind the eyi's and sides of the neck are ash-gray, tlie white 

 being contined to the region Itelow or near tiie eye. The smoky-gray of the 

 upper part of head iiml neck in sihivints is in a stronger contrast witli tlio 

 brighter nd'cscent-gray of the , ...id is separated from it. by an obscure, 



conceided, whitisii dorsal half-collar, represented 'Mxhtiditi^iiicKn only by a didl 

 grayish shade in the plumage. 



Haiuts. This interesting species, one of the liveliest and mo,st animated 

 of its family, belongs to the northern and eastern sections of Nt ' i America. 

 It is found in the eastern and northern portions of Maine, and ])robably also 

 in tiie northern parts of Ni-w York, Vermont, and New llampsiiire. In the 

 heavily wooded mountain-valley of Krrol, in tiie latter Stale, Mr. Maynard 

 met with this bird in the latter jtart of Octolicr, in company N.ith tho 

 common airirnpil/n.s. in the same month he also obtained two birds in 

 Albany, in the uortliwe.stern ''orner of Main(\ A single s])ecimen was 

 taken at Concord, Massachusetts, October L".', by ]\lr. William IJrewster. 



Near Calais it is resident, but not common. It is more abundant in the 

 islands of tiie Iky of Fundy, wlicn? it takes (lie jilacc, almost exclusively, 

 of the alriiapillm. Tiio writer lirs( met with thesi; lively little wood-sprites 

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