Parus hudsonicus . 
Bethel, Maine. 
1907 
January 21 
A mixed flock that lingered long about a sunny 
opening in dense, well-grown woods (the "Glen Woods ) of balsam, 
arbor vitae and white pine, contained four Kudsonian Chickadees, 
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five common Chickadees, two Golden-crested Kinglets, a male Canada 
Nuthatch and a male Plairy Woodpecker. A Log Cock called once not 
far away and Lesser Redpolls flew over at frequent, intervals. I 
had a good opportunity to watch the Kudsonian Chickadees at close 
range in a clear light and stayed with them for half-an-hour or 
more making the following notes; For a time they kept high up in 
the tops of some tall balsams working among the cones, apparently 
extracting; and eating the seeds. The Nuthatch was with them here 
for several minutes but the Black-cap Chickadees remained lower 
down. The Hudsonians differed from the Black-caps as follows:- 
They were much less noisy (often passing minutes at a time in ab¬ 
solute silence); they seldom hung head downward; they hopped and 
flitted among the branches more actively and ceaselessly, spending 
less time in one place; their shorter tails were less in evidence; 
they flirted their wings much more with a more nervous, tremulous 
motion very like that of Kinglets; the black patch on the throat 
was less conspicuously shown; they appeared shorter, "chunkier" 
and fluffier; the chestnut brown on the flanks was very apparent. 
Altogether they seemed to me less attractive and interesting than 
the Black-caps. In their manner of flitting ceaselessly from twig 
to twig, as well as by the tremulous motions of their wings, they 
