38 The Hawkey e 0. and 0. 



Never but once have I noticed them here in winter, and that 

 was on February 22d last. With the thermometer at about 32°, 

 and a brisk west wind filling the eyes with the snow that was 

 rapidly falling. [ leaped over a fence into a woods, having lit- 

 tle hope of seeing anything interesting on such a day. As I did 

 so I became aware of bird-life in a hemlock standing just before 

 me. There were five or six Chickadees tilting this way and 

 that, lisping and whistling to each other; then came the loud, 

 sonorous "quank" of the White-breasted Nuthatch, and then 

 another note similar to the last, but not so loud and in a higher 

 tone. Then a Red-breasted Nuthatch came in view from 

 among the thick foliage of the hemlock, followed soon by another. 

 They seemed to be gleaning food from the recesses of the hem- 

 lock, now and then examining carefully a cone. 



This smaller species of the Nuthatch is not much larger than 

 the Chickadees, being about five inches in length. The upper 

 colors on head and back resemble very closely the corresponding 

 colors ot iS. cavolinensis, but the under parts — how pretty! The 

 throat is white. Thence, all the rest of the under parts are of a 

 beautiful rust-red color, forming a pleasing contrast with the 

 snow-covered ground as he approaches it, running nimbly along 

 the lower rail of some forest-bounding fence. He is, indeed, a 

 pleasing, pretty, and a striking form. 



Sitta canadensis breeds well to the nor.h of us, as the specific 

 part of his scientific name would naturally suggest. 



NESTING OF THE KENTUCKY WARBLER IN SOUTH- 

 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 



BY .1. WARREN JACOBS. 



The Kentucky Warbler (Oporomisformosas) in this locality 

 is not a rare bird, although they are not to be found nesting in 

 every favorable spot in which they delight to haunt. 



