212 FAUXA OF XEW EXGL.lXD. 



P.1.SSERES. ■ O.SCIXES. 



SITTID.lE. 



Me., X. H., A T. — Common mioTam, imcommion summ.er and 

 winter resident. Eggs, May 1-15 Me./. 



]\Iass. — Common migrant and v.-inter resident; uncommon 

 summer resident. Eggs, April 3-I\Iay 1. 



R. I. — Common migrant and winter resident; uncommon 

 summer resident. Sept. 14- April 22; summer. Eggs, April 20— 

 May 22. 



Coxx. — Common migrant and winter resident, less common 

 simamer resident. Eggs, IMay 8-.June 7. 



386. SiTTA C-\XADEXSis Linne. 



Red-breasted nuthatch; Canada nuthatch; Red-belhed nut- 

 hatch. 



Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 177. ''Canada.'"'" 

 Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1S42, vol. 4. p. 179. pi. 24S. Egg, 

 Capen, 1886, pi. 2, %. 9. 



Coniferous woods, or, on migrations, tree growth generally; 

 nests in holes excavated in dead trees. 



Me. — Common resident south to Cape Elizabeth; elsewhere 

 a periodically common winter resident. Eggs, May 6- June 2 

 (early July). 



N. H. — Common resident from Wliite Mts. nonh, elsewhere 

 a rare summer and irregular winter resident. Eggs, ]May 20. 



Vt. — Uncommon winter \isitor and local summer resident. 

 Eggs, May .5-30. 



]\L^s.s. — Irregular fall and winter visitor; in western part at 

 higher levels an uncommon, and elsewhere a rare and irregular 

 simimer resident. Aug. 1.5-May 20; summer. Eggs, I\Iay 18- 

 June 10. 



R. I. — Uncommon and irregular fall and winter ^'isito^. Oct. 

 5-winter. 



Coxx. — Uncommon and irregular fall and winter "visitor. 

 (Aug. 28) Sept. 24-April 19. 



