Sitta canadensis . 

 "Did I ever tell you of ny first experience witli one( the 

 Red-boll led Kutliatch.)? It \?as one September afternoon on the steaner 

 to Yarraouth (i-Tova Scotia) and a pair tool; refuge in the rijssing when we 

 ?;ere way out of siyht of land. One in particular becaiae so taue that 

 one of the men on board oau^^^ht hin several tines and he would finally 

 perch on the man's finger and pech around and under his nails and then 

 flew away to the flowers in uy hat and peched round in them. At sunset 

 they found places to roost in the rigging and in the morning were gone 

 as we wore near land". Extract from a letter by I,li-s .El izaboth J. 

 iYoroester to William Brewster, dated Waltham, April 1, l&Gl, 



