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iver, Sitka, Alaska, where I secured six specimens and saw 

 iveral others. {Gtinnell.) One specimen was taken and several 

 ;hers were seen in Cumshewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands^ 

 .C, June 20th, 1900. {Osgood.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One specimen taken by the writer at Comox, Vancouver Island,, 

 [ay 2nd, 1887. 



Family LIV. FABID.S Nuthatches and Tits. 



CCXLIX. SITTA LiNN^us. 1758] 



27. White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Sitta carolinensis 'LkTB.. 1790. 



Common on Anticosti ; Audubon saw one in Labrador.. 

 ^ackard.) Common along the Humber River, Newfoundland, 

 399. {Louis H. Porter.) Rather common summer resident at 

 lalifax, N.S. [Downs.) One individual taken on Sable Island,, 

 f.S., September 29th, 1902. {James Bouteillier.) Cove Head, 

 rince Edward Island, July 4th, 1888. {Macoun) Common in 

 Dring and summer but not seen in winter at St. John, N.B.. 

 Chamberlain^) A tolerably permanent resident at Scotch Lake,, 

 ork Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore.) It is seen in the woods of eastern 

 (uebec, but near the city I have never seen a single individual.. 

 aken at St. Valier, Bellechasse Co., Que. {Dionne.) A perma- 

 ent resident at Montreal. Common spring and fall migrant, but 



scarce summer and winter resiclent. {Wintle.) 



A common resident at Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist,'Vo\.'V .) A 

 Dmmon bird in eastern Ontario. Have observed it all through 

 le winter as well as in summer at Lansdowne. It breeds com- 

 lonly in Leeds Co., though as the nest is usually made in a hole 

 f a tree, often a maple, high up, it is not often discovered. 

 Rev. C. J. Young.) A common resident in Parry Sound and 

 luskoka districts. I found a nest on 24th May, 1893, at Ems- 

 ale; it was in a natural hollow in a large maple, and about 3a 

 ;et from the ground. The six eggs were laid on the rotten wood 

 nd surrounded by a few of the bird's feathers. ■(/. H. Fleming.). 

 ommon resident at Guelph, Ont. {A. B. Klugh.) Nests have 

 een taken at Sherkston, Welland Co., by Mr. Edward Reineckc 

 [ere it lays from seven to eight eggs in a hole in a decayed tree- 



