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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.) 



Family LIV. PARID^. Nuthatches and Tits. 



CCLXXV. SITTA Linnaeus. 1758. 



727. White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Lath, i 790. 



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. Tufts.) One individual taken on Sable island, 

 N.S., September 29th", 1902 ; a few specimens seen, August 4th, 1907. 

 (/. 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. {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 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 loth 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. (/. H. Flem- 

 ing.) 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 



