. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;. Birds. TITMICE. 57 the SittidoB the nostrils are likewise concealed, but the bill is long, rather slender, acute, and with a convex outline beneath only; the tail is short (pi. 1, fig. 5). In the CerthiidcB the bill is slender and decurved, the nostrils are exposed, and the tail-feathers are stiff and pointed (pi. 1, fig. 6). All the Creep- ers and Titmice of North America belong to the typical groups or subfamilies, Certhiince and Parinoe. I. PARUS
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;. Birds. TITMICE. 57 the SittidoB the nostrils are likewise concealed, but the bill is long, rather slender, acute, and with a convex outline beneath only; the tail is short (pi. 1, fig. 5). In the CerthiidcB the bill is slender and decurved, the nostrils are exposed, and the tail-feathers are stiff and pointed (pi. 1, fig. 6). All the Creep- ers and Titmice of North America belong to the typical groups or subfamilies, Certhiince and Parinoe. I. PARUS. » A. ATEiCAPiLLUS. BlacJc-capped Titmouse. Chickadee. Common in Massachusetts throughout the year, but much less abundant in summer than in the other seasons.* a. 5-5|^ inches long. (Tail and wings 2|^.) Above, ashy, variously tinted. Beneath, white, in winter often tinted with " rusty " or buff. Crown, nape, and throat, black; interven- ing space, (nearly) white. b. The Chickadees either select a natural cavity or a de- serted Woodpecker's home, or with great labor excavate a hole for themselves in a post or a tree. They rarely select a sound tree, but much prefer a decayed one, par- ticularly a white birch, in which from one to thirty feet above the ground, on the side (or often on the top of a trunk, if a broken one), they make an excava- tion, from three inches to a foot deep, with a narrow entrance, if possible. At the bottom they place warm and soft materials, such as hairs, moss, feathers, and wool; and the female, usually in the last week of May (near Boston), lays six or sometimes more eggs — often again ^'^- ^- Chickadee, {i) laying, later in the season. The eggs average .63 X .50 of an inch ; and are white, either spotted with reddish brown or finely freckled with a rather paler shade, approaching flesh-color. * A permanent resident, everywhere ently most numerons in autumn and common at all seasons, but in Massa- -winter. — W. B. chnsetts and to the
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