124 NUTHATCHES 



In April, 5-7 white, brown speckled eggs are laid in a 

 hole in a tree, lined with feathers, etc. 



RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH 



Sitta canadensis. Case 2, Figs. 60, 61 

 4 



Underparts brownish, a line through the eye, black in the male, 

 slate in the female. Smaller than the White-breasted Nuthatch. 

 L. 4 f. 



Range. Nests from northern New England and northern 

 Minnesota into Canada; south along the Alleghanies to North 

 Carolina; winters from southern Canada to the Gulf States. 



Washington, irregularly abundant W. V., sometimes rare, 

 Sept. 15-May 10. Ossining, irregular W. V., Aug. 8-May 8. 

 Cambridge, irregular T. V., and W. V., Aug. 15-Nov. 25; Nov. 

 25-Apl. 15. N. Ohio, tolerably common W. V., Sept. 4-May 22. 

 Glen Ellyn, irregular T. V., Apl. 24-May 21; Aug. 19-Dec. 12. 

 SE. Minn., common T. V., uncommon W. V., Sept. 24-Apl. 21. 



Late in August when I hear a note such as one might 

 imagine a baby Nuthatch would utter, I know that the 

 Red-breasted Nuthatch has arrived from the north per- 

 haps to spend the winter, or, may be, to go farther souths 

 He never seems quite as familiar as his larger, louder- 

 voiced, white-breasted cousin, and if one wants to make his 

 acquaintance it is well to follow the sound of his penny- 

 trumpet-like notes until their author is discovered. 



BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH 

 Sitta pusilla. Case 4, Fig. 66 



The head is browner than in the figure; the nape has a downy 

 white patch. Smallest of our Nuthatches. L. 4$. 



Range. Nests from Florida to southern Delaware and southern 

 Missouri; a Permanent Resident. 



The Brown-headed Nuthatch is a bird of southern pine 

 forests; one may travel for miles without seeing a single 

 individual and then discover a company of a score or more. 

 They pass most of their time among the upper branches 

 uttering a pit-pit as they hunt for food, or all suddenly 



