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feet from the ground in a rotten birch at Kenora. {W. E. 

 Saunders.) 



730. Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Sitta pygmcea pygmcea ViG. 1839. 



British Columbia. {Lord.) Found only at Ducks where it was 

 as common as the others. {Streator.) I have only found this bird 

 east of the Coast range. {Fannin.) Rather common at Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C. in winter. Confined to the regions of Pinus pond- 

 erosa in B.C., in summer. {Brooks.) Only found, and that sparingly, 

 at Vernon near Lake Okanagan, B.C. {Rhoads.) Common on the 

 hill-sides in the scattered timber at Penticton, Lake Okanagan, B.C. ; 

 it builds its nest in holes in trees anywhere from 6 to 40 feet from the 

 ground ; they have a remarkable way of caulking up the holes and 

 seams in the trees around their nest with hair; they sometimes work 

 10 or 12 days making the nest; on April 15th, 1903, found a pair 

 building their nest; chopped the same out May ist and found six 

 eggs ; the bird covered them with feathers on leaving the nest so I 

 suppose she had not finished laying. A pair building a nest in a hole 

 in a tree in the town of Midway, B.C., April, 1905 and one seen at 

 vSidley. {Spreadborough.) 



CCLXXVI. PENTHESTES Reichenbach. 1850. 

 735. Chickadee. 



Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus (Linn.) Ridgw. 1904. 



Locally common in timbered parts of northeastern Labrador. 

 {Bigelow.) I am informed by credible persons long resident in 

 the country, that two species of chickadees occur at Northwest 

 river, at the head of Hamilton ialet. {Packard.) Common and 

 resident throughout the year on Newfoundland. {Reeks.) Most 

 abundant along the Humber river, Newfoundland, 1899. {Louis 

 H. Porter.) 



Abundant resident at Halifax, N.S. {Downs.) Common in 

 Nova Scotia. {H. F. Tufts.) Common at Baddeck and Margaree, 

 Cape Breton island, N.S., July, 1898; quite common in woods at 

 Brackley beach. Prince Edward island, June, 1888. {Macoun.) 

 Occasionally, small roving families were encountered on Prince 



