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feet from the ground in a rotten birch at Kenora. (W. E. 

 Saunders.) 



730. Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Sitta pygmcea pygmcca ViG. 1839. 



British Columbia. {Lord.) Found only at Ducks where it was 

 as common as the others. (Streator.) I have only found this bird 

 east of the Coast range. (Fannin.) Rather common at Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C. in winter. Confined to the regions of Pinus pond- 

 ero^a in B.C., in summer. (Brooks.) Only found, and that sparingly, 

 at Vernon near Lake Okanagan, B.C. (Rhoads.) Common on the 

 hill-sides in the scattered timber at Penticton, Lake Okanagan, B.C. ; 

 it builds its nest in holes in trees anywhere from 6 to 40 feet from the 

 ground ; they have a remarkable way of caulking up the holes and 

 seams in the trees around their nest with hair ; they sometimes work 

 10 or 12 days making the nest; on April 15th, 1903, found a pair 

 building their nest; chopped the same out May ist and found six 

 eggs; the bird covered them with feathers on leaving the nest so I 

 suppose she had not finished laying. A pair building a nest in a hole 

 in a tree in the town of Midway, B.C., April, 1905 and one seen at 

 Sidley. (Spreadhorough.) 



CCLXXVL PENTHESTES Reichenbach. 1850. 

 735. Chickadee. 



Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus (Linn.) Ridgw. 1904. 



Locally common in timbered parts of northeastern Labrador. 

 (Bigelow.) I am informed by credible persons long resident in 

 the country, that two species of chickadees occur at Northwest 

 river, at the head of Hamilton inlet. (Packard.) Common and 

 resident throughout the 3^ear on Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Most 

 abundant along the Humber river, Newfoundland, 1899. (Louis 

 H. Porter.) 



Abundant resident at Halifax, N.S. (Downs.) Common in 

 Nova Scotia. (H. F. Tufts.) Common at Baddeck and Margaree, 

 Cape Breton island, N.S., July, 1898; quite common in woods at 

 Brackley beach. Prince Edward island, June, 1888. (Macoun.) 

 Occasionally, small roving families were encountered on Prince 



