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Family CERTHIID^:. Creepers. 

 Genus CERTHIA Liuua?us. 



302. (726). Certhia familiaris americana (^Bonap.). Browu 

 Creeper. 



Common in migrations, quite common summer resident of the 

 Canadian fauna, and some winters it also occurs. 



County Kecords. — Audroscoojgin, '•'common migrant" (Johnson); 

 Aroostook, "breeds at Houlton and Fort Fairtield" (Batchelder, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. 7, p. 109) ; Cumberland, "couuuon migrant"' 

 (Mead) ; Franklin, "rare summer resident'" (Swain) ; Kennebec, "quite 

 common resident"' (Powers); Knox, "migrant"' (Rackliff); Oxford, 

 "common, breeds" (Nash) ; Penobscot, "summer resident and have seen 

 it also in February" (Knight) ; Piscataquis, "some years resident" 

 (Homer) ; Sagadahoc, "common migrant"" (Spinnej-) ; Somerset, "com- 

 mon resident"" (Morrell) ; Waldo, (Spratt) ; Washington, "not very 

 common, breeds" (Boardman) ; York, fairly common vernal migrant"" 

 (Adams). 



Family PARID^. Nuthatches and Tits. 



Subfamily SITTIN.E. Nuthatches. 



Genus SITTA Linnfens. 



303. (727). Sitta carolinensis Lath. White-breasted Nut- 

 hatch. 



Common and of general occurrence in migrations, also less 

 abundant as a permanent resident. 



County Records. — Androscoggin, "fairly connuon resident"" (Call) ; 

 Aroostook, "occurs at Houlton'" (Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 Vol. 7, p. 109) ; Cumberland, "common resident"" (Mead) ; "uncommon 

 in migrations and winter" (Brown's ("at. Birds of Portland, p. 5) ; 

 Franklin, "common resident" (Swain) ; Hancock, "summer resident"' 

 (Murch) ; Kennebec, "quite common resident"" (Gardiner Branch) ; 

 Knox, "rare migrant"" (Rackliff) ; Oxford, "breeds" (Nash) ; Penobscot, 

 "very common migrant, rare in summer and exceedingly so in winter"' 

 (Knight) ; Piscataquis, "common resident" (Homer) ; Sagadahoc, 

 (Spratt) ; Somerset, "not common resident" (Morrell) ; Waldo, (Spratt) ; 

 Washington, "rare, breeds"' (Boardman) ; York, "not very common"' 

 (Adams). 



304. (728). Sitta canadensis i//(H. Red-breasted Nuthatch. 

 Resident within the Canadian fauna, slightly more abundant in 



summer. Elsewhere chiefly occurs as a migrant and winter resi- 

 dent, common. 



