. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . its use: you cannot comjKiss it when the air is chilly and the li])s , the eastern bird. (P. atricapUlus) has a clear, high-pitched call-note,Stccc-tcc. or Sticc-tcc tec i:]^ _^ ~|^ _^-^ which must be taken as the type of this genus | [ ^ or | l-i — ern bird are best un- and the calls of the west-derstood by reference tothis norm. In the song of occidcittalis the first note of the type, high C,is oftenest repeated three or four times, and has a double character impos
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . its use: you cannot comjKiss it when the air is chilly and the li])s , the eastern bird. (P. atricapUlus) has a clear, high-pitched call-note,Stccc-tcc. or Sticc-tcc tec i:]^ _^ ~|^ _^-^ which must be taken as the type of this genus | [ ^ or | l-i — ern bird are best un- and the calls of the west-derstood by reference tothis norm. In the song of occidcittalis the first note of the type, high C,is oftenest repeated three or four times, and has a double character impossibleto represent on])a])er: while thew hole ends, ornot, with the lowernote of atricapil-liis. These notesmay be called thedeo dco dco dayseries. In rare in-stances they be-come a ravishingtrill on high C. be-yond imitation oranalysis. For the notesfli\ide themselvesinto squeaks, vocalnotes, and whis-11 e s. O f thesqueaks one is avery liigh-pilclied. W II i n i n g note, Ai/.ih m Oregon. puolo by II. L. Finh-y. , 1 • ,1 I 1 WITH which closely re- o-econ « 278 THE OREGON CHICKADEE. si-mliles till- kii])-in-ii>iicli. or ll<i,kinj(, cry of llie Wotirii (ioldcn-crowncdKinglet. Tlii CliicUadccs cin|)loy this wlien in coni])a!iy witli Kinglets, orwhile ranging thru the tree-tops when no other sound is audible in thewoods. Then there is a regular s(jueaking trill which is oftenest prelimi-nary to the familiar </<•»■ dec licc dec dec (s|)oken ) notes, hut which some-times ap|)ears alone, as by suspension or change of intent. Of the whistled series the commonest are, lirst, a clearlv renderedhiis:, ■ i,f lower pitch and more trivial ■ haracter; and. second the dcoilco dco day series, alreadyrecorded. There is a strikinglesemhlance between the whis-iled and the sinikcn (/(»v day words correspondlo the dco dco whistles, allhothey are oftenest preceded bya fairy snee/e, which we haveconventionaliz
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