Sitta carolinonsis. 
Main© (Lake Umbagog). 
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15174. 
sopt. 11 . 
Shot a female. 
1880. 
Juno 1. 
Saw a rnalo in tho floodod forest at tho Outlot. 
“ 8. 
A pair among tho stubs near Poasleo’s springy tho 
malo uttering tho rolling call peculiar to tho brooding 
season. /T") 
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1 881. 
May 20. 
Sot s-5. — Prosh—nost in a natural holo in a rod 
maplo stub which stood in tho water; holo dosconding 
about six inches. I found tho nost by watching tho malo 
who ovory few rninutos would fly to tho holo with a largo 
worm and uttor a low hank, when tho fomalo vmtiTd extend 
hor bill and take tho morsel from him. One© sho ro- 
fused it and ho instantly swallowoci it himself. "Hion 
my guide began to climb tho troo the fomalo flow from 
the holo and disappeared, neither she nor her mat© ro- k 
turning till after wo had loft the spot. I saw a pair 
of those Nuthatches in precisely tho same place last 
season Jf 
1882. 
7 
Oct.8-12 
Two observed on October 9, and two more on October 
14; all in tho stubs along Cambridge River. 
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