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TWENTY-SIX COMMON BIRDS. 
and in fall and winter the fruit of the poison ivy, sumach and bay- 
berrv. The Chickadee utters in spring, and less frequently at other 
seasons, a sweet whistled phee-bee, the notes being of equal length 
and separated by a single interval. This when heard in the first 
warm days of February and March is often mistaken for the harsher, 
phce-be of the Phoebe. Besides this note and the tshe-dee-dee- 
dee , which has given the bird its name, it has two other gurgling 
and lisping notes, and a simple tsip. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET* 7. 
[regulus satrapa.] 
In the greater part of Eastern North America, the Kinglet is 
only a winter resident or migrant. Its home is in the spruce belt 
of the north, so that it is found in summer only in the forests of 
northern New England and New York. Here it constructs, in a 
low bough of some evergreen, a nest of moss and feathers in the 
shape of a ball, in which are laid from six to ten eggs, white, 
speckled with brown. Toward the end of September, the King¬ 
lets and Brown Creepers arrive from the north, and although many 
pass southward of New England, many remain until April. They 
associate themselves with the Chickadees, and these mixed bands 
make regular visits to orchard, woodland, and the trees about 
houses, picking eggs and larvae from the bark. They have at this 
season a lisping note, see , see , see , and though not shy are often 
difficult to observe from their constant activity and fondness for 
evergreen trees. They are attractive, beneficial birds, and though 
little known, their dainty beauty deserves wider notice. 
WOOD THRUSH. 6. 
[turdus mustelinus.] 
Where the Hermit Thrush does not breed, this bird is without 
a rival in the power and beauty of its song. It frequents copses, 
