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Sitta canadensis. From 1900 to 1904 I spent considerable time in a 

 part of Canton that seemed very favorable for birds of the Canadian Fauna. 

 Here was a 50-acre tract of large white pines with adjoining swamp of 

 white cedar and red maple, and considerable large deciduous growth. 

 Numerous plants and shrubs of a northern character grew throughout the 

 area, and I found breeding there such birds as the Barred Owl, Broad- 

 winged Hawk, Hairy Woodpecker, Solitary Vireo, Canadian Warbler, and 

 Brown Creeper. 



April 29, 1900, I first saw the Red-breasted Nuthatch here and it seems 

 quite probable that they were breeding; however on May 18, 1902, Mr. 

 Owen Durfee and I located a pair of the birds on the' edge of the pines in a 

 mixed growth of oak and chestnut, about 50 yards from the maple swamp. 

 The female soon went to the nest near the top of a small dead black oak 

 stub 12 feet high. After spending some time watching and photographing 

 the birds I collected the stump with a set of six fresh eggs. At the entrance 

 hole was the characteristic daub of pitch.— F. B. McKechnie, Ponkapog, 



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