CHICKADEE 



August 25, 1893 

 (Elmhurst) 



THESE birds do not seem as plentiful 

 here as the books report them in the 

 east. The quality of their note, chick-a- 

 dee-dee, is something like that of the che- 

 wink's call note, strident, but sweeter and 

 of course much fainter and finer. The 

 plaintive clear minor whistle of two notes, 

 the first higher, the second a half note 

 lower, I have also frequently heard. 



April II, 1903. A note I did not rec- 

 ognize at first I found to be that of this 

 bird. It sounded like a blackbird in the 

 distance. It was a decided cut-cut-ca-da- 

 cut strongly emphasized at the end, and 

 rather harsh, not contented as a hen 

 gives it. 



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