LAND BIRDS. 699 
more recent observers 
have failed to verify this 
statement. Cabot’s list 
of 1850 includes it, and 
G. A. Stockwell, in his 
Forest and Stream notes 
on Michigan birds, says: 
“Found abundantly in 
the Upper Peninsula 
and around Mackinac; 
rarer in the Lower 
Peninsula; occasionally 
seen in St. Clair and 
Lapeer counties; possi- 
bly further south” (F. 
«& 8., Vol. 8, No. 17, p. 
261). This is entirely 
contrary to our own 
experience, and very few "8 American Birds, Sth Edition, 1903." Wane betes @ Cone 
of our observers or cor- ake 
respondents have reported it in recent years. Mr. O. B. Warren of Palmer, 
Marquette county, in 1898 wrote “Am doubtful of any authentic record 
of this bird’s capture, ag the ground has been worked over where this 
bird was formerly reported, and since it is a resident where generally 
found, I think it highly improbable that it ever wandered to Michigan. 
Kumlien and Hollister state that it is a rare winter visitant in southern 
Wisconsin, and that Dr. H. V Ogden of Milwaukee “saw several and shot 
one in Iron county (Michigan), but unfortunately did not preserve the 
skins” (Birds of Wisconsin, p. 125). In response to a request for further 
information Mr. N. Hollister wrote, February 7, 1905: ‘Regarding this 
species there can be no doubt of its occurrence in Michigan. I have seen 
it myself in Vilas county, Wis., near the Michigan line, and Dr. Ogden 
of Milwaukee has taken it since, he tells me, in the northern tier of counties 
(Wis.), and now has a specimen or specimens.” 
~ More positive testimony comes from Mr. E. A. Doolittle of Painesville, 
Ohio, who states that he found a pair in a tamarack swamp near Negaunee, 
Marquette county, Michigan, in June 1905, and is positive that the birds 
had a nest or young in the immediate vicinity. In 1906 Mr. Walter C. 
Wood, of Detroit, spent the time from November 10 to December 5 on 
the Cheneaux Islands in northern Lake Huron, off the shore of Mackinac 
county, and during this time took several specimens of the Hudsonian 
Chickadee, which were preserved for his collection. He says: ‘They 
appeared with the first heavy snowfall, November 25, when a few were 
seen. They became very common by the 28th, and Captain Pollock in- 
forms me that they are the most abundant winter bird and very tame, 
in fact more so than atricapillus, and more often come about the house 
and feed from the door-step (Wilson Bulletin, No. 58, March, 1907, p. 27). 
In March 1909 we received a specimen of this bird from Mr. E. E. Brewster, 
of Iron Mountain, Dickinson county, which was taken in the immediate 
vicinity. This gives us three positive records for as many different counties, 
all in the Upper Peninsula. 
Apparently there is no reason why this species should not occur regularly 
in the spruce and hemlock forests of the northern parts of the state, since 
