584 : THE CHICKADEE, 
Figs. 16 and 17 are flat, scraped very thin, as seen in 17 a; one of 
pias is made from the bone of a bird. From Eag 
specimens represented by the figures just patr together 
with other wrought pieces more or less mutilated, and collections of 
the bones and shells from each of the heaps, e preserved in the 
Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology it Cambridge, and in 
the Ethnological Department of the Essex Institute in Salem. Of 
these S those represented in Figs. 6, 7, 11, 13 and 14, were 
from the Rev. J. A. Swan; Figs. 1, 9, 12 from Mr. William A. Hayes; 
Figs. 2 and 4 from Mr. Horace Mann; Figs. 10 and 17 from Mr. F. 
W. Putnam; Fig. 15 from Mr. E. S. Toia, and Figs. 3, 5, 8, 10, from 
the writer. 
ÖKJOEKKENMOEDDING G 
THE CHICKADEE. 
BY AUGUSTUS FOWLER. 
Tue Chickadee (Parus atricapillus) is a common resi- 
dent, familiar alike in the woods and the dwellings of 
man. He fears not the storms of winter nor the heats of 
summer. Cautious yet bold, cunning though seemingly 
simple, he averts all suspicion of the whereabouts of his 
nesting-place, and, when diseovered, scolds the intruder. 
Ever on the alert, the hawk cannot make him his prey; 
nor the smooth gliding snake surprise him in his nest. In 
times of incubation when danger approaches, the male, 
