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Distribution. This subspecies inhabits northeastern America from 

 northern Quebec and Newfoundland to the Adirondacks, northern Vermont 

 and central New Hampshire, occasionally straggling southward in winter 

 to Massachusetts and Connecticut. In New York this chickadee was 

 found by Roosevelt at Bay Pond, Franklin county, in small flocks, during 

 the early part of August 1877. Dr F. H. Headley found it as abundant 

 as the common chickadee in the vicinity of Big Moose lake during Feb- 

 ruary and March 1882; and Doctor Merriam collected four specimens 

 in a balsam and tamarack swamp near Lake Terror, April 29, 1882 (Merriam, 

 Adirondack notes mss., no. 13; also N. O. C. Bui. 6:226). Ralph and Bagg 

 reported it from Remsen, Oneida county, December 25, 1886 (Auk, 7; 

 232) ; and the list of Ralph and Bagg reports it as breeding in Herkimer 

 and Hamilton counties on the authority of Doctor Merriam. A small 

 flock has been reported from Utica, January 18, 1877, by " Avis " (Forest 

 and Stream 7, 395), and from Charlotte, Monroe county, November 29, 

 1894, by Charles R. Taylor of Rochester; also from Highland Park, 

 Rochester, January 2-16, 1914, byWm. L. G. Edson. It is, however, 

 characteristically a nonmigratory member of the boreal fauna. During 

 my study of the birds near Mt Marcy, I noticed this chickadee on the 

 Geological cobble, above Upper Ausable lake, on June 23, 1905; on the 

 Bartlett ridge, July 31; Skylight camp, on July 12 and 13; and saw it on 

 several occasions in the spruce and tamarack swamp about the Ausable 

 inlet during June and July. On July 2, both male and female Hudsonian 

 chickadees were seen feeding their young along the Ausable inlet about 

 half a mile above the head of the Upper Ausable lake, which would indicate 

 that about the flrst of June would be the breeding date for that locality. 

 Doctor Merriam's breeding date is June 15, 1883, and the eggs in the 

 Smithsonian Institution from Jocks lake, Herkimer county. New York, 

 are labeled July 17, 1898, in this instance evidently a second brood or 

 a delayed nesting. 



The habits of the Hudsonian chickadee are very similar to those 

 of the common chickadee, but his notes, though evidently chickadee 

 notes, are distinctly different from those of the common species. 



