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K Dixon
1949
Parus wolweberi
2.
Apr 23 Sawmill, 27 mi. NE Globe, 5600 ft., Yola Co., Ariz.
After 10:00 AM I followed a pair of birds on the ridge top in juniper and oak not more than 12 ft high, scrubby yellow
pines scattered. I saw the female hanging from bottom of
a cavity peering in, then out then in again. I shot at
her & missed. The male simultaneously was singing from
a position 10 yards to NW. The pair foraged in an oak
10 yards north I prospect position following which I
lost them. The most frequently used note was a soft somewhat
plaintive see see dee and occasionally a soft pit, notes which
I take to be contact or location notes, practically indistinguish-
able from those of the Plain Titmouse. These birds flew from oak to oak.
Perhaps half an hour later I was calling to a Slate
Warbler downstate a few yards to the west. A Bewick Wren was
answering and 2 Brittled Titmice appeared in a young pine beside
the wren giving a call see see see dee (high pitched) and
one individual gave a chattering note which I cannot
transcribe. I collected one individual (#349 ) and the
other remained in the vicinity calling occasionally but I was
unable to take it.
My impression was that the vocabulary is more like that of the
Chickadees with none of the harshness nor the strength of
the calls of the Plain Titmouse.
Note with collection of #349. One of the titmice gave call
see see see dee apparently antagonistic toward Bewick Wren
in print with them. In general this species seems less pragmatic
than P. inornatus.