The Red-breasted Nuthatch 
and spotted with reddish brown. Av. size 16 x 12.2 (.63 x .48). Season: First 
week in May; one brood. 
General Range. —North America at large, breeding from northern New England, 
northern New York, and northern Michigan northward, and southward in the Alle- 
ghanies, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada; also on Guadalupe Island, Lower 
California, and Santa Cruz Island, California; in winter south to about the southern 
border of the United States. 
Distribution in California. —Summer resident of the Canadian zone in the 
Sierras and other ranges, as, the Warners, Trinities, San Jacintos, and sparingly in the 
humid coast belt south at 
least to Cazadero in Sonoma 
County. Perhaps irregularly 
residenton Santa Cruz Island. 
Winters irregularly, some¬ 
times abundantly, in wooded 
valleys at lower levels, prac¬ 
tically throughout the State, 
or even at the edges of the 
desert. Casual upon the 
Farallon Islands (Bryant, 
and May 24, 1911, Author). 
Authorities.—Gambel, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
vol. iii., 1846, p. 112 (Calif.); 
Cones, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 
p. 136 (syn., desc., habits, 
etc.); Averill , Auk, vol. v., 
1888, p. 118 (feeding habits); 
Beal, U. S. Dept. Agric., 
Yearbook, 1900, p. 296 (food; 
relation to orchards); How¬ 
ell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 
12, 1917, p. 99 (Santa Cruz 
Id., probably breeding). 
Taken in Fresno County Photo by the Author 
A NUTHATCH MAY LOOK AT A KING 
AND DOUBTLESS MANY NUTHATCHES HAVE USED THIS OLD TREE TO OBTAIN A CLOSE-UP OF 
TEHIPITE DOME 
THERE is nothing 
big about the Red¬ 
breasted Nuthatch save 
his voice. If undis¬ 
turbed, birdikins pursues 
the even tenor of his 
ways, like any other 
winged bug-hunter; but 
once provoke his curios¬ 
ity or arouse suspicion, 
and he publishes forth¬ 
with a broadside of sen- 
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