. Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . tly lined with down orhorsehair, and placed generally in an upright crotch of a tree, welabove the ground. The Chickadee (Parus atricapilliis) Titmouse family Called also: BLACK-CAPPED TITMOUSE; BLACK-CAP TIT Length—^ to inches. About an inch smaller than the Englishsparrow. Male and Female—Hot crested. Crown and nape and throatblack. Above gray, slightly tinged with brown. A whitespace, beginning at base ofbill, extends backwards, widen-ing ov
. Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . tly lined with down orhorsehair, and placed generally in an upright crotch of a tree, welabove the ground. The Chickadee (Parus atricapilliis) Titmouse family Called also: BLACK-CAPPED TITMOUSE; BLACK-CAP TIT Length—^ to inches. About an inch smaller than the Englishsparrow. Male and Female—Hot crested. Crown and nape and throatblack. Above gray, slightly tinged with brown. A whitespace, beginning at base ofbill, extends backwards, widen-ing over cheeks and upper part of breast, forming a sort ofcollar that almost surrounds neck. Underneath dirty white,with pale rusty-brown wash on sides. Wings and tail gray,with white edgings. Plumage downy. 7?a«^c—Eastern North America. North of the Carolinas to Lab-rador. Does not migrate in the North. Aligratioiis—Lzit September. May. Winter resident ; perma-nent resident in northern partsof the United States. No fair weather friend is the jolly little chickadee. In thedepth of the autumn equinoctial storm it returns to the tops of 76. CHICKADEE. About Life-bize. Dusky, Gray, and Slate-colored the trees close by the house, where, through the sunshine, snow,and tempest of the entire winter, you may hear its cheery,irrepressible chickadee-dee-dee-dee or day-day-day as it swingsaround the dangling cones of the evergreens. It fairly over-flows with good spirits, and is never more contagiously gay thanin a snowstorm. So active, so friendly and cheering, whatwould the long northern winters be like without this lovable littleneighbor ? It serves a more utilitarian purpose, however, than bracingfaint-hearted spirits. There is no bird that compares with it indestroying the female canker-worm moths and their eggs, writesa well-known entomologist. He calculates that as a chickadeedestroys about 5,500 eggs in one day, it will eat 138,750 eggs inthe twenty-five days it takes the cank
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