U.S. Also chicadee. [Named from its note.] The Black-cap Titmouse (Parus atricapillus) of N. America.
1854. Thoreau, Walden, iv. (1886), 124. The chicadee lisps amid the evergreens.
1884. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., March, 615/1. We all know the lively black-capped chickadees.
