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while he gave a sweet warbling song." Of another bird, seen on 

 November 25th, he said: "The Belmont bird was also well seen and 

 gave a few notes of the warbling song." At Cape Breton Island in 

 August, 1905, Dr. Townsend heard in four different places a pleasant 

 warbling song emitted by this, species. "It was a low, bubbling, 

 warbling song, which I vainly attempted to describe in my notes. 

 It began with a pset or tsee; followed by a sweet but short warble" 

 (Auk, vol. 23, 1906, p. 178). While this was in press, C. H. Clark 

 wrote as follows in the Journal of the Maine ornithological society (vol. 

 8, 1906, p. 27) : " I ran into a flock of Hudsonian Chickadees (ten or 

 twelve), and these, too, were exercising their voices, and mingled with 

 the 'dee, dee, dees,' and 'chick-a-dee dees' was a sweet little song 

 of three or four notes and new to me, but I was not long in doubt as 

 to what it was, for soon a Hudsonian came out on a limb not over 

 three feet from my face and sang it right at me." This was at Lubec, 

 Maine, on February 11, 1^06. Again in the same Journal (vol. 8, 

 1906, p. 83) Dana W. Sweet records a pair of Hudsonian Chickadees 

 on Mt. Abraham, near Phillips, Maine, on June 22, 1906. He says: 

 "Twice I heard the song of the Hudsonian Chickadee." Dr. Town- 

 send wrote to Mr. Sweet asking for fuller particulars. Mr. Sweet kindly 

 replied as follows under date of December 8, 1906: "I have never 

 read anything about the notes of the Hudsonian Chickadee .... Janu- 

 ary 19, 1905, I heard what I am very sure is the warbling song that 

 you mention. At the time I was unable to describe it in my notes .... 

 It was, however, entirely different from any other notes of either 

 species. As I remember, it was a clear, sweet soprano, and was 

 quite a remarkable performance from a musical standpoint." 



Although we did not hear the song in Labrador, we heard at Bay 

 of Islands, Newfoundland, on July 6, 1906, a song which Dr. Townsend 

 recognized as the warbling song of this species he had heard the 

 previous summer in Cape Breton. We are both agreed that it should 

 be classed as "a warbling song" of considerable merit. We had 

 been watching a pair of Hudsonian Chickadees with the hope of 

 hearing them sing, but as the birds were concealed in the spruces at 

 the time the song was heard, we could not be absolutely sure that one 

 of these was the author. In speaking of the song Mr. Brewster 

 ("Birds of the Cambridge region," 1906, p. 379) says: "I have never 

 heard anything of the kind from the Hudsonian Chickadee, although 

 I am reasonably familiar with that species, having had abundant 



