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On October i8, 1889, Mr. Walter Faxon found two Hudsonian Titmice together 

 in white pine woods in Arlington, near the borders of Winchester. On the follow- 

 ing day one of these birds was killed by Mr. Faxon who afterwards deposited the 

 specimen in my collection.^ The other bird remained in the same place up to 

 October 22. 



From November 17, 1889, to April 5, 1890, Mr. Faxon had a Hudsonian Chicka- 

 dee under almost daily observation in Waverley. It frequented some dense woods of 

 white pines mixed with cedars, behind the Convalescent Home and opposite the upper 

 part of Beaver Brook Reservation. It was sometimes found alone, but oftener 

 with a flock of common Chickadees. Mr. Faxon is confident ^ that the date last 

 given marked the termination of its stay in this locality. 



The Rev. Horace W. Wright has reported ' finding four Hudsonian Chickadees 

 (a very unusual number for one season) " in the vicinity of Boston in November, 

 1904." Two of these birds were observed on the 25th of the month in Belmont, one 

 of them being seen near the village of Waverley. The other two birds were noted 

 respectively in the Middlesex Fells, on November 4, and at Castle Hill, Ipswich, on 

 November x2. 



In connection with the records just mentioned Mr. Wright says incidentally 

 that the Ipswich bird "gave a sweet warbling song" and one of the Belmont 

 birds, "a few notes of the warbling song." Still more recently Mr. Clarence 

 H. Clark, in an interesting account of some winter birds met with on February 

 II, 1906, in the woods near Lubec, Maine, mentions "a sweet little song of 

 three or four notes" which was "new to" him and which he heard mingling 

 with "the 'dee, dee, dees' and ' Chick-a-dee dees' " of a "flock of Hudsonian 

 Chickadees (ten or twelve)." He "was not long in doubt" as to its origin, 

 "for soon a Hudsonian came out on a limb not over three feet from " his "face 

 and sang it right at " him.* I have never heard anything of the kind from the 

 Hudsonian Chickadee, although I am reasonably familiar with that species, having 

 had abundant opportunities for studying its notes and habits in the forests of 

 northern New England where I have met with it on many different occasions and 

 during every month of the year excepting April. Besides low, chattering, con- 

 versational sounds — difficult of description but certainly far from musical in 

 character — which the birds occasionally make while feeding, I have heard them 

 utter only a low chip much like that of the common Chickadee but rather fee- 

 bler, an abrupt, explosive tch-tchip, and a nasal, drawling tchick, chee-day, day. In 

 the call last mentioned the interval between the doubled middle note and the 

 single notes which precede and follow it are very pronounced and the accented 

 notes are very strongly emphasized — characteristics which serve at once to dis- 



1 No. 25,621, collection of William Brewster. 



2 W. Faxon, Auk, VII, 1890, 407-408. 



3 H. W. Wright, Auk, XXII, 1905, 87. 



^C. H. Clark, Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society, VIII, 1906, 27. 



