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A Second Occurrence of the Hudsonian Titmouse {Parus hud- / ^ 

 sonicus) :n Massachusetts. — On the morning of October 7, 1880, 

 while hunting Woodcock in Concord I satisfactorily identified a specimen 

 of this northern Titmouse. I was crossing an opening when a familiar 

 and emphatic tchip, tchee-day, day, greeted me from an isolated red cedar 

 near at hand. Upon closely examining the tree I soon spied the 

 author of the sound hopping about near the top. The next moment he 

 flew and pitched into a thicket of low birches on the edge of the neigh- 

 boring woodland. Here I several times got very near him — too near in 

 fact to use the heavy charges with which I was alone supplied : but I so 

 plainly saw his light brown cap and chestnut sides that 1 scarcely regret- 

 ted it, when at length he somehow gave me the slip and disappeared. 

 The preceeding night had been sharp and frosty and the wood edges 

 were alive with migratory Warblers, Thrushes, and Sparrows. Although 

 specimens of the Hudsonian Titmouse have lately been taken in Con- 

 necticut and Rhode Island, I believe my former Concord record has 

 until now remained the only definite one for Massachusetts. — William 

 Brewster, Cambridge, Mass.TSiXx\^-^,O.Q. a, Jan, , 1881. P, ■ 



The Hudsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts. — December 31, 1880, 

 I shot a Hudsonian Titmouse {Parus hudsotncas) in my garden at Cam- 

 bridge. It was very tame and, in company with one Black-capped Tit- 

 mouse, was hopping about on a low pear-tree when secured. The ther- 

 mometer had been in the neighborhood of zero for several days and the 

 Black-capped Titmice unusually numerous. This is, I believe, the third 

 appearance of the Hudsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts. — Henry M. 

 Sp-Ei^mA-N, Cambridg-e. Mass. BuJi. N.O.O. 0, April, 1881, p, J / l/ 



