BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND 



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WHITE -BELLIED NUTHATCH. 



( Sitta Carolinensis ) 



This is not a common bird with us, but a 

 few are met with in the older settled parts of 

 the country. We have seen them in the summer 

 and late autumn. It is larger than the next 

 species which it resembles in general appearance, 

 but the under parts are white, and there is more 

 white on the wings. It is less active and noisy. 

 It is a beautiful, sedate little bird, wandering 

 over the trunks of the deciduous forest trees 

 uttering its peculiar ick, ick, ick. 



RED-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 



(Sitta Canadensis) 



This is one of our most common resident 

 birds, flocking with the Chickadees, and helping 

 to relieve the monotony of the winter woods by 

 its animated ways. From the Chickadees it is 



