. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . , it comes as a great surprise when the Titmouse burstsout with a CJiick-a-dec,Chick-a-dec-dec, almost pre-cisely like that of his black-capped cousin. Under date of March 31stI find: The neighboringwoods are haunted, and havebeen for a week or more past,by a love-lorn Titmouse whorepeats Peto, peto, peto, petowith rapid enunciation andwearisome iteration. Thebird utters this cr_y in groups,as above, on an average ofabout thirteen times a min-ute, and keeps it up all davlong. Dur
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . , it comes as a great surprise when the Titmouse burstsout with a CJiick-a-dec,Chick-a-dec-dec, almost pre-cisely like that of his black-capped cousin. Under date of March 31stI find: The neighboringwoods are haunted, and havebeen for a week or more past,by a love-lorn Titmouse whorepeats Peto, peto, peto, petowith rapid enunciation andwearisome iteration. Thebird utters this cr_y in groups,as above, on an average ofabout thirteen times a min-ute, and keeps it up all davlong. During these days heranges high in the trees, butstops only ten or fifteen sec- ^t - ^^Jl^^^>^^V^KKSBPiSK^^^ /■>- ■^s in a place,—about long ^;l,.jjlS??J#,1fV.,».*\*^c^3S!gi»^Hff^»nj;:-:</vJ enough to repeat his burden four or five times. Thencomes a hiatus of a few sec-onds, during which time heis flitting to another a casual glance it looksas tho Mary Ann had retired to the depths of some unknown knot-hole to escape this silly chap, and we heartily wish that we might follow Taken near Photo by the Author. AN INCONSPICUOUS KNOTHOLE. PAIR OF TITMICE NESTED HERE DUklNG THE SEASON OF THE CHICKADEE. 245 No. 107. CHICKADEE. A. O. U. No. 735. Parus atricapillus Linn. Synonyms.—Black-capped Chickadee; Black-capped Titmouse. Description.—Adult: Top of head and nape shining black; throat deadblack with whitish skirting posteriorly; a white band oii side of head and neck,increasing in width behind; back and scapulars gray with an olivaceous cast andmore or less admixture of buffy at the edges and as skirting; wings and tail dusky,more or less edged, especially on greater coverts and tertials, with ashy or whitish;breast and belly white; sides, flanks and crissum washed with buffy or light rusty(nearly whitish in summer) ; bill and feet dark. Rather variable in size; one adultspecimen in the O. S. U. collections measures: wing () ; tail 2.
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