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Identifier: michiganbirdlife00barr Title: Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Barrows, Walter Bradford, 1855-1923 Subjects: Birds -- Michigan Publisher: Lansing : Michigan Agricultural College

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Text Appearing Before Image: posterior border. Aboveuniform grayish; beneath white medially, light buffy brownish laterally (paler in summer);length 4.2r) to 4.60 inches; wing 2.40 to 2.60; tail 2.10 to 2.50 (Ridgw^ay). 315. Hudsonian Chickadee. Penthestes hudsonicus hudsonicus (Foes/.). (740) Synonyms: Hudsonian Titmouse, Hudson Bay Chickadee, Hudson Bay Titmouse.—Parus hudsonicus, Forst., 1772, and most authors.—Parus hudsonicus stoneyi, A. O. U.Committee. 1889. Figure 14<9. Similar in size and general coloration to the common Chickadee, butthe top of the head clear brown instead of black, and the stripe on theside of the head pure white only in front, decidedly ash-gray on the neck. Distribution.—Northern North America, from the more elevated partsof the northern United States (northern New England, northern NewYork, northern Michigan, etc.) northward. The Hudsonian Chickadee must be counted as a rare bird in Michigan,The older writers reported it as common in the Upper Peninsula, but LAND BIRDS. 699

Text Appearing After Image: 1^ Fi 149. Hudsonian Chickadee. From Coues Key to North American Birds, 5th Edition, 1903. Dana Estes & Co. more recent observers have failed to verify this statement. Cabots hst of 1850 includes it, and G. A. Stock well, in his Forest and Stream notes on Michigan birds, says: Found abundantly in the Upper Peninsula and around Mackinac; rarer in the Lower Peninsula; occasionally seen in St. Clair and Lapeer counties; possi-bly further south (F. & S., Vol. 8, No. 17, p. 261). This is entirelycontrary to our ownexperience, and very fewof our observers or cor-respondents have reported it in recent years. Mr. O. B. Warren of Palmer,Marquette county, in 1898 wrote Am doubtful of any authentic recordof this birds capture, as the ground has been worked over where thisbird was formerly reported, and since it is a resident where generallyfound, I think it highly improbable that it ever wandered to Michigan.Kumlien and Hollister state that it is a rare winter visitant in southernWiscons

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