Bethel, Maine.
1902.
January 7.
(4).
3. Ti-ti-tchee (two chirps combined with one husky note)
4. Ti-ti-tchee-tchee (two chirps and two husky notes)
5. Ti-tchee-tchee (one chirp and two husky notes)
6. Tsip or T'chip - a sharp, abrupt challenging call.
7.  Tsip-tsi-tchee - The sharp challenge combined with one
chirp and one husky note.
  All these notes are perfectly distinct from anything that
the common Chickadee ever utters.
  The Hudsonian Chickadee seen on this occasion remained
in the thicket of arbor vitaes, flitting about and calling,
long after all the other members of the flock had departed.
  Continuing on our way we found two Golden-crested Kinglets
among some dense young balsams and flushed a Partridge
from a little glen through which flowed a brook encased in a
thick covering of snow and ice. The Partridges of the region
about Bethel are simply the wildest birds of their kind that
I have ever met. They fly the moment they see or hear a man
no matter how far off he may be.
  On our return we did not see or hear a bird of any kind.
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