WHITE-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 



SITTA CAEOLINENSIS. 



THIS is the bird that stays with us, clings to his 

 native woods ; summer and winter he is at home. 

 During one long, very cold winter a member of this 

 family was one of my most intimate, constant, and im- 

 portant friends. No degree of cold could daunt him. 

 Early in the morning his sharp, rapid, merry notes would 

 lend life to the grove: 



Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 



# c c c *-t- g i nf^^ 



Wait, wait, wait. Ick y, ick - y, ick 



