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{Sitta Garolinensis ) 

 This is another common species, easily to be found 

 in the woods. It is a member of the woodpecker tribe, 

 and is about the size of a bluebird, white below, blue 

 above, with some black on the head, wings and tail. 

 It has no particular song, but has a note which it utters 

 while rapping and hammering the trees in search of 

 grubs and worms upon which it feeds. It received its 

 name from the habit of placing hard shelled nuts in 

 the fork of the limbs to crack them. It digs a hole in 

 the solid wood to make its nest, and while engaged in 

 doing so it carries the chips a distance to prevent sus- 

 picion. Eggs, from four to six in number, white, spot- 

 ted with brown on larger end; spots few. 



BROWN CREEPER. 



( Certhia Familiaris Unfa. ) 

 This is another member of the same tribe as the above. 

 A little smaller than the Nuthatch, light below and 

 dark brown above, somewhat striped and variegated, 

 bill long and curved, feet adapted to climbing and 

 sticking to trees. It may be seen in spring and sum- 

 mer running up the trunks and branches of trees in 

 search of insects, upon which it feeds. It is not gifted 

 with any particular song. It builds its nest in hollow 

 trees which is a characteristic of nearly all the wood- 

 pecker tribe, nest is composed of chips and other coarse 

 grass or sticks. Eggs, seven in number, ashy gray in 

 color, long oval. There are numerous other species of 

 creepers, but they are not so common. 



