40 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE, 



FAMILY SITTIDyE.— GENUS SITTA. 

 NUTHATCH. 



SiTTA C.ESIA, Wolf. 



The Nuthatch is an exceedmgly rare species in Lanca- 

 shire, and is very seldom seen. It has, however, heen 

 known to hreed, and has also been observed in autumn 

 and winter. In Mr. A. G. More's paper in the Ibis of 

 1865 on " The Distribution of Birds in Great Britain 

 during the Nesting Season," it is stated that Mr. C. S. 

 Gregson has seen it in the woods of Wyresdale, and its 

 occurrence here formerly is also noted in the MSS. of 

 the late Eev. J. D. Banister. Mr. John Hardy writes 

 me that he has once known it breeding near Manchester, 

 several times having seen tw^o or three in a day in the 

 nesting season, and having also observed it oftenest 

 early in spring, though by no means regularly at any 

 season. The last occurrence I have come across is of 

 one which killed itself in September, 1880, against the 

 glass of the vinery at Waddow, near Clitheroe, the 

 residence of Mr. James Garnett, who has had the bird 

 preserved : it had been seen about for two or three 

 weeks previously. 



FAMILY TROGLODYTID.E.— GENUS TROGLODYTES. 



WEEN. 



Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. 



Local Names — Chitti/, Cldttij Wren, Kitty Wren, Jenny 

 Wren, Tom-tit. 

 Eesident, and everywhere abundant, remaining through 

 the hardest winters, though those of 1878-79 and fol- 



