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in June and July. They continue to breed commonly, if somewhat sparingly, in 

 the more thinly settled parts of Watertown, Waltham, Belmont, Arlington, and 

 Lexington, where they nest, as a rule, in birch stumps in the woods, and in hol- 

 low apple trees in old and neglected orchards. While occupied with the care 

 of their eggs and young, they are remarkably silent and retiring birds, and for 

 this reason they attract much less attention in summer than at other seasons. I 

 have not seen a Chickadee's nest in any part of Cambridge since about 1864, 

 when I found one with eggs in Dr. Morrill Wyman's place on Sparks Street. 

 Miss Anna M. Scorgie tells me, however, that a brood of young were reared in 

 Junes 1903, within twenty-five feet of the house of her father, Mr. J. C. Scorgie, 

 who lives on Brattle Street, just to the westward of Elmwood. The nest was in 

 a post which supported a trellis covered with vines. Chickadees used to breed in 

 Norton's Woods and it is possible that they do so still, for I heard a bird utter- 

 ing the 'phaebe' note there on June 26, 1901. 



238. Parus hudsonicus Forst. 

 HuDsoNiAN Chickadee. Hudsonian Titmouse. 



Of uncommon and irregular occurrence in autumn and winter. 



SEASONAL occurrence. 



October 18, 1889, two seen, Arlington, W. Faxon. 

 April 5, i8go, one seen, Waverley, W. Faxon. 



The Hudsonian Chickadee has been noted in the Cambridge Region at the 

 following times and places : — 



On November i, 1866, I saw two birds together in an apple tree by the roadside 

 (Lexington Street) in Waltham, about half a mile to the northward of ' Piety Corner.' 

 They were very tame, and for several minutes I had them within two or three yards of 

 me, securing a perfectly satisfactory identification. 



On December 31, 1880, a female of this species was shot by Mr. H. M. Spelman ^ 

 in a pear tree in the grounds of his father, Mr. Israel M. Spelman, on Sparks Street, 

 Cambridge. This specimen is preserved in Mr. Spelman's collection." 



On December 3 1, 1884, I killed a male Hudsonian Chickadee^ in some pitch pine 

 woods on Marsh Street, Belmont, about half a mile to the southward of Arlington 

 Heights. 



1 H. M. Spelman, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, VI, 1881, 114. 



2 No. 80, collection of H. M. Spelman. 



' No. 9685, collection of William Brewster. 



