Mass. {nea 



r Cambridge) 







1887 



















i W. Middlesex Co. Mass. 



June 25-30, 1889. 



Sitta c arolinensis, (White-bellied N^i^ 

 hatch.) A nest found by me contained four' 

 eggs. I took them all and put in a wooden 

 egg and in that way I managed to get 

 twelve eggs. The nest was in a hole two 

 feet from the ground and measured two by 

 two and one-half inehes.4/^. 



O.&O. VlU.Sepfc. iP^^^ p7f 



I have been interested for the last few years in noticing the 

 irregular movements of our Nuthatches in winter. One season 

 both kinds were present ; another followed in which the White- 

 bellied species (c arolinensis ) was common, but in w^hich no 

 Red-bellies {canadensis) were seen. I did not see one of either 

 kind during the whole of the next winter, but in the last the Red- 

 bellies were abundant, while the others hardly occurred at all. 

 The cold evidently does not drive them from us, for it is during 

 the severest winters that they seem to remain. What then does 

 influence them 



BnliN.O.O, 8. July. 1883. p. IH^ 



