Sitta car ■"dons Is . 
1871, 
30- 
Juno 10. 
1372. 
Juno 2- 
14. 
1373. 
Sept.22. 
1879, 
Juno 23. 
1380 , 
May 19. 
20 . 
7aine (Lako Umbagog). 
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Rather common but silent and retiring. 
More numerous than last year but by no r.r 
dant. Although all the species taken vrero at: 
notes at this season are uttered in a high nas 
not heard in autumn and are kept up ineossan 
cries of young birds. 
tly 
ans abui 
ults their 
al tone 
like the 
They have become abundant within tho las 
^Saw one catching flies precisely in the i 
Sphyrapicus . 
Sot A-6. — Incubated several days; 
maple stub over water; tree very rotton; 
twenty : 'oot; hole on West side about two 
top. A quantity of pitch 
unmistakably s pruce 
tunnel. Stub 
yards from the 
:Xf 
nest 
foe 
which my guide pre 
about the entrance and ir 
standing in five foot of water 
hero, which was heavily forest 
» 
and 
hard woods 
hemlock, spruco, 
she would come out when wo rapped on tho stub 
immediately return to her eggs. Mtr—' 
While my guide was cutting off tho stub 
feet below the hole, she repeatedly alighted 
entrance 
3 
/n. 
hoight 
Sot R-7. — Incubated about four days. ^ 
in tho woods bordering Cambridge 'iver. Hoi 
foot. Spruce gum thickly smeared about the 
of tho hole and over the ’./hole face of tho 
distance of six inches. Nest composed of thej 
bark of tho poplar. Our attention was drawn 
nest by hearing the birds uttering a peculiar 
ous whining noise. This was appo.rer.-tly the 
male to his mate for she soon emerged from the) 
swering him when both went off together. Tho 
so rotton that wo had to cut it down. Tho to 
off falling into a brush hoap below, cracking 
eggs, but breaking none of them. Shortly aft 
tho female returned and in evident bewildermon 
in tho air over tho spot whore tho tree had st 
ly searching for i t. J/ ■? sV,t ' 
V, 
few days. 
armor ox 
xn 
rod 
about 
from 
nounsed 
side its 
twenty 
od with 
Female sit)ting; 
but almost 
J>" Q ~L 0 - C'-'*;. - V" 
bout tVO 
t its 
c4jx) 
Birch stub, 
ht twenty 
entrance 
st q|b for a 
fine inner 
to this 
continu¬ 
al of tho 
hole an- 
s tump was 
3 broke 
somo o f 
erwards 
t hovered 
the 
xod, 
vam- 
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