130 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 
202. SITTA CANADENSIS (Linnezus). 
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH. 
“Migrant. In my collection is one example taken 
October 4, 1888, the only one I have ever met with.” 
(1891c). 
The red-breasted nuthatch is not a regular migrant 
in Alabama, but should more properly be classed as a 
straggler. 
No. 98. Male (adult) Greensboro. Oct. 4, 1888. W. C. Avery. 
203. SITTA PUSILLA (Latham). 
BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH. 
“Common. Resident. Breeds.” (1891c). 
May 1, 1888, a set of five eggs was taken two miles 
west of Greensboro. “Nest was in a post, about five feet 
from the ground. The parent when exposed by having 
the excavation, in which she was sitting, laid open to the 
bottom, did not move ’till the hand was extended to take 
her from the nest. The entrance to the nest was a cir- 
cular hole about two inches in diameter; the cavity being 
about ten inches deep and three or four inches wide, the 
hole at the bottom being extended laterally and excavated 
so as to receive the nest. This was of cotton and hair, 
lined with the samarz of maple or ash.” Eggs measured: 
.59 by .45, .56 by .45, .56 x .44, .58 by .47, and .56 by .45. 
May 2, 1888, a set of four eggs was taken near the 
same locality. Incubation just begun. “Nest was about 
four feet from the ground in a dead pine stump; bird 
sat on nest till I broke away outside shell and exposed her 
to view.” Eggs measured: .62 by .48, .60 by .48, .65 by 
AT, and -63: by <47. 
The Doctor records seeing brown-headed nuthatches in 
Baldwin County, Oct. 2, 1892. 
No. 222. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 22, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 423. Male. Greensboro. Mar. 15, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 424. Female. Greensboro. Mar. 15, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 641. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 885. Male. Anniston. July 1, 1891. W. C. Avery. 
No. 965. Male. Greensboro. Dec. 23, 1891. W. C. Avery. 
