Parus atricapillus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Hesitate to cross an arm of the Lake. copy④ One drowned. 1896. At B.Brook Point a band of Chickadees were roaming about Sept.9. in the woods. They evidently wanted to cross the cove -about 1/4 of a mile wide- but were half afraid to venture on even so short an aerial journey. They made several false starts, rising 50 feet or more above the tree tops, starting out over the Lake chirping encouragement to one another and turning back after going 100 yards or less! Finally they divided in- to two parties and went across. Jim found a Chickadee in mid-lake yesterday morning just after the fog cleared so it seems that they sometimes perish by drowning as the Warblers,Vireos, Sparrows and other small birds so often do.