CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. FEL 
One specimen was taken and several others were seen in Cumshewa 
inlet, Queen Charlotte islands, B.C., June 20th, 1900. (Osgood.) 
Common on Vancouver island. (Fannin.) 
Famity LIV. PARIDAS. NvuTHaTCcHEs AND Tits. 
CCLXXV. SITTA Linnazus. 1758. 
727. White-breasted Nuthatch. 
Sitta carolinensis carolinensts 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. (Downs.) 
Uncommon summer resident in Kings county, N.S., sometimes seen 
in winter. (H. F. Tujts.) One individual taken on Sable island, 
N.S., September 29th, 1902; a few specimens seen, August 4th, 1907. 
(J. Boutelier.) 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 county, N.B. (W.H. Moore.) It is seen in 
the woods of eastern Quebec, but near the city I have never seen a 
single individual. Taken at St. Vallier, Bellechasse county, Que. 
(Dionne.) A permanent resident at Montreal. Common spring and 
fall migrant, but a scarce summer and winter resident. (Wzntic.) 
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 county, 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.) Winter and fall resident at Toronto, Ont.; no summer 
records except from July 1oth to 21st, 1892. A common resident 
in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts; I found a nest on 24th May, 
1893, at Emsdale; 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. (J. H. Flem- 
ang.) Common resident at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) Nests 
have been taken at Sherkston, Welland county, by Mr. Edward 
Reinecke. Here it lays from seven to eight eggs in a hole in a 
decayed tree-stub. One nest was in an ash tree fifty feet from the 
