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hand to feast on the luscious morsel I 
offered him. It’s true name is the Black- 
capped Titmouse. It is about five inches 
long, its back of an obscure ash color, its 
breast whitish, its crown and throat 
black. Besidesits common note of chick- 
adee, dee, dee, it has another, which re- 
sembles the note of the Pheebe, but 
drawled out sad and plaintive. 
Where you find the Chickadee, there 
also seek for the Brown Creeper, and you 
may find it zigzagging around the tree 
trunks, running head up or head down, 
it seems to make no difference which. It 
is a pleasant singer, but is seldom seen 
in the summer. It’s place then is taken 
by another similar bird, named the Black 
and White Creeper, which has no song, 
but a simple call to its mate, which re- 
sembles the chirp of a grasshopper. 
There, also, see the Blue Jay, the fop 
or dandy of our woods. Watch him peg- 
ging away at an acorn that he has stuck 
in a knothole, or perhaps a crotch in a 
