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7, 1907. Mr. Spaulding states that "the place was a small 

 meadow, quite wet, and covered with tussocks of grass — quite 

 the appropriate place for the species." 



172. Certhia familiaris americana. Brown Creeper. 

 An uncommon summer resident. More were formerly noted 



than have been seen in recent years. The cutting of the local 

 forests may account for this. In 1904 a pair nested in our own 

 woods. The nest was placed behind the coarse, loose bark of a 

 big black birch tree, three feet or more in diameter at the butt, 

 at about eight feet from the ground. Some of the leaves used 

 as nest material protruded from the slight interspace. The nest- 

 ing spot was discovered on June 9. Three days later both 

 parent birds were bringing food to the young. On June 23 one 

 of the young birds was seen on a near tree with the parent birds, 

 and one was seen again on the twentj^-eighth day. In the virgin 

 forest through which the Raymond trail to Tuckerman's Ravine 

 passes more birds have been noted than elsewhere. 



In September and October birds are observed in migration. 

 They appear on roadside trees as members of mixed flocks of 

 migrating birds. One such bird was creeping round a telephone 

 post on the Highland as early as August 25, in 1904. Some 

 birds are recorded up to the middle of October, and a few remain 

 as winter residents. My assistant, writing from a logging-camp 

 in late February, 1911, informs me that on the sixteenth day of 

 that month, which he describes as warm and pleasant, he 

 observed six Brown Creepers on one big birch tree. In the 

 vicinity were seen also the Down}^, the Hairy, and the Pileated 

 Woodpecker, Blue Jays, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Black- 

 capped and Hudsonian Chickadees; and he mentions that a 

 Barred Owl was heard hooting several times at midday on that 

 date. 



173. Sitta carolinensis carolinensis. White-breasted 



Nuthatch. 



A rather uncommon permanent resident. As a summer 

 resident a few individuals are recorded throughout the season 



