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One specimen was taken and several others were seen in Cumshewa 

 inlet, Queen Charlotte islands, B.C., June 20th, 1900. (Osgood.) 

 Common on Vancouver island. (Fannin.) 



Family LIV. PARID^. Nuthatches and Tits. 



CCLXXV. SITTA Linn^us. 1758. 



727. White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Lath. 1790. 



Common on Anticosti ; Audubon saw one in Labrador. (Packard.) 

 Common along the Humber river, Newfoundland, 1899. (Louis H. 

 Porter.) Rather common summer resident at Halifax, N.S. (Downs.) 

 Uncommon summer resident in Kings county, N.S., sometimes seen 

 in winter. (H. F. Tufts.) One individual taken on Sable island, 

 N.S., September 29th, 1902 ; a few specimens seen, August 4th, 1907. 

 (/. Boutelier.) Cove Head, Prince Edward island, July 4th, 1888. 

 (Macoun.) Common in spring and summer but not seen in winter 

 at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) A tolerably permanent resident 

 at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) It is seen in 

 the woods of eastern Quebec, but near the city I have never seen a 

 single individual. Taken at St. Vallier, Bellechasse county, Que. 

 (Dionne.) A permanent resident at Montreal. Common spring and 

 fall migrant, but a scarce summer and winter resident. (Wintle.) 



A common resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) A 

 common bird in eastern Ontario. Have observed it all through 

 the winter as well as in summer at Lansdowne. It breeds com- 

 monly in Leeds county, though as the nest is usually made in a hole 

 of a tree, often a maple, high up, it is not often discovered. (Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Winter and fall resident at Toronto, Ont. ; no summer 

 records except from July loth to 21st, 1892. A common resident 

 in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts; I found a nest on 24th May, 

 1893, at Emsdale; it was in a natural hollow in a large maple, and 

 about 30 feet from the ground ; the six eggs were laid on the rotten 

 wood and surrounded by a few of the bird's feathers. (/. H. Flem- 

 ing.) Common resident at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) Nests 

 have been taken at Sherkston, Welland county, by Mr. Edward 

 Reinecke. Here it lays from seven to eight eggs in a hole in a 

 decayed tree-stub. One nest was in an ash tree fifty feet from the 



