680 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
River, Sitka, Alaska, where I secured six specimens and saw 
several others. (Grznunell.) One specimen was taken and several 
others were seen in Cumshewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, 
B.C., June 20th, 1900. (Osgood. 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One specimen taken by the writer at Comox, Vancouver Island} 
May 2nd, 1887. 
FamiILty LIV. PARIDA® NoruatcuHes anp TITs. 
CCXLIX. SITTA Linnevus. 1758! 
727. White-breasted Nuthatch. 
Sitta 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. (Dowazs.) One individual taken on Sable Island, 
N.S., September 29th, 1902. (/James Bouteiller.) 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 Co.,N.B. (W.H. Moore.) It isseen in the woods of eastern 
Quebec, but near the city I have never seen a single individual. 
Taken at St. Valier, Bellechasse Co., Que. _(Déonne.) A perma- 
nent 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 Co., 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.) A common resident in Parry Sound and 
Muskoka districts. I found a nest on 24th May, 1893, at Ems- 
dale; 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. Fleming.) 
Common resident at Guelph, Ont. (A.B. Klugh.) Nests have 
been taken at Sherkston, Welland Co., by Mr. Edward Reinecke. 
Here it lays from seven to eight eggs in a hole in a decayed tree- 
