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rather common at Lake Mistassini. Turner says: "I am informed 

 by credible persons, long resident in the country, that two species of 

 Chickadees occur at Northwest River [Hamilton Inlet]." Bigelow 

 ('02) says: "Locally abundant in timbered regions." This note is 

 probably intended for P. hudsonicus as the latter bird is not mentioned 

 in this first paper but is listed in his second paper (Bigelow, '02a) on 

 the ornithology of the Brown-Harvard expedition, which omits men- 

 tion of atricapillus. 



Parus hudsonicus Forst. 

 Hudsonian Chickadee. 



Abundant permanent resident. 



Audubon found a nest of this species with young in southern Labra- 

 dor on July 18th. Frazar says he saw two in the spring at Esqui- 

 maux Point but "none others until my return in September, when 

 they were migrating in abundance along with the Labrador Jays .... 

 They passed in fifties and hundreds, and the two mornings that I was 

 out I must have seen as many as twenty such bunches." Stearns 

 said they were abundant along the coast all the year. Low says they 

 are abundant on Hamilton River from April 1st. Spreadborough 

 observed them about 75 miles inland from Richmond Gulf and at the 

 George River. Turner says they are abundant in the wooded tracts; 

 young of the year were seen at Davis Inlet on July 19th and at Fort 

 Chimo in early August. 



Rhoads ('93, p. 328-330) quotes Forster that the type locality of P 

 hudsonicus is Fort Severn at the mouth of the Severn River, and 

 describes Parus hudsonicus ungava on the basis of specimens from 

 Fort Chimo collected by Turner. Another specimen from Rigolet 

 is referred to this form, and one from southern Labrador is inter- 

 mediate. 



We saw only three Hudsonian Chickadees in Labrador and these 

 were in the woods near Rigolet. 



As there has been some discussion of the song of this bird, the pres- 

 ent status of the question is given here. The Hudsonian Chickadee 

 was not known to have any song, and no mention seems to have been 

 made of it until 1905 when H. W. Wright (Auk, vol. 22, 1905, p. 87) 

 in speaking of a Hudsonian Chickadee he had seen at Ipswich, Massa- 

 chusetts, on November 12, 1904, stated that "[he] was very finely seen 



