. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 82 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTBKN NEW YORK April. In northern New England it is not common in win- ter. Kinglets are often associated in winter with Chickar dees; if, therefore, the sharp tsit of the Chickadee is heard in fall or winter, it is well to follow the sound and, when the Chickadees appear, to keep eye and ear alert for any of their traveling companions. Of
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. 82 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTBKN NEW YORK April. In northern New England it is not common in win- ter. Kinglets are often associated in winter with Chickar dees; if, therefore, the sharp tsit of the Chickadee is heard in fall or winter, it is well to follow the sound and, when the Chickadees appear, to keep eye and ear alert for any of their traveling companions. Often the Kinglets travel alone, searching restlessly the twigs of trees and hedges, following Fig. 2. Golden- , ii i j i_ crowned Kinglet perhaps a well-marked course through plantations and woodland, and calling to each other with a thin sharp see-see-see. If the hirds are in thick evergreens, spruces or cedars, it is very hard to get even a glimpse of them, but in leafless apple-trees, a favorite resort, they display their brightly marked heads and quick, restless ways. They do not cling to a twig upside down like the Chickadees, but occasionally one flut- ters for an instant before the desired morsel and picks it off. Their numbers vary from winter to winter, and even in the course of a single season there seems often to be a fluctuation. In April their numbers increase, as the birds that have wintered to the southward pass through as mi- grants. In March and April the males continue the lisping note, put more and more power into it, and then by a de- scending trill fall, as it were, from the height to which they have scaled, — this is the song of the Golden-crowned Kinglet. The lisp of the Chickadee, the screep of the Brown Creeper, and the see-see-see of the Kinglet all have a strong resemblance. The last two are sharper and more finely drawn out, the Kinglet's is quickly repeated, while the Creeper's is one long continuous note. In summer the Kinglets keep almost wh
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