212 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



SITTIDAE. 



Me., N. H., Vt. — Common micjrant, uncommon summer and 

 winter resident. Eggs, May 1-15 (Me.). 



Mass. — Common migrant and winter resident; uncommon 

 summer resident. Eggs, April 3-^Iay 1. 



R.I. — Common migrant and winter resident; uncommon 

 summer resident. Sept. 14^ April 22; summer. Eggs, April 20- 

 May 22. 



Conn. — Common migrant and ■winter resident, less common 

 summer resident. Eggs, May 8-June 7. 



386. SiTTA CANADENSIS Linne. 



Red-breasted nuthatch; Canada nuthatch; Red-belhed nut- 

 hatch. 



Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 177. "Canada." 

 Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, vol. 4, p. 179, pi. 248. Egg, 

 Capen, 1886, pi. 2, fig. 9. 



Coniferous woods, or, on migrations, tree growth generally; 

 nests in holes excavated in dead trees. 



Me. — Common resident south to Cape Elizabeth; elsewhere 

 a periodically common winter resident. Eggs, ^lay 6- June 2 

 (early July). 



N. H. — Common resident from White Mts. north, elsewhere 

 a rare summer and irregular winter resident. Eggs, Mav 20. 



Vt. — Uncommon winter visitor and local summer resident. 

 Eggs, :\Iay 5-30. 



]\Iass. — Irregular fall and winter visitor; in M'estern part at 

 higher levels an uncommon, and elsewhere a rare and irregular 

 summer resident. Aug. 1.5-May 20; summer. Eggs, May 18- 

 June 10. 



R. I. — Uncommon and irregular fall and winter visitor. Oct. 

 5- winter. 



Conn. — Uncommon and irregular fall and winter visitor. 

 (Aug. 28) Sept. 24-April 19. 



