Sitta canadensis. 
Maine. Nest and eggs. 
This afternoon Jim and I accompanied Watrous to the nest 
May 25. of the Red-bellied Nuthatch which he had found in the morning 
to the eastward (where Mason logged several winters ago). We 
took a long rope, axe, saw, etc. The nest was in a balsam a- 
bout 15 feet above the ground. Watrous sawed off the stub 
thrice, once just above the hole, once a little below it, and 
again below the nest which contained a set of six eggs so near 
hatching that it is doubtful if we can save them. The female 
was sitting. She came out when we tapped hard on the stub and 
we did not see her again. There was much pitch about the 
hole. 
