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Sitta carolinensis, 
Middlosox County, Mass, 
1806 . 
Apr, 19* I took a nest with seven fresh eggs in ari apple or¬ 
chard near Gray’s Pond, Cambridge, The nesting-site was 
a natural hole in an apple tree, on the v/est side, about 
tv/’enty feet above the ground. The hole vms too small 
to admit my hand and had to be cut out. During this 
process the female remained quietly on her eggs although 
she speedily became half-buried in chips and saw-dust. 
When I finally got my hand in she tried to pass out my 
v/rist and the edge of the hole, but on my withdrawing it 
she returned to the eggs. Upon thrusting it in a second 
time, however, she became thoroughly alarmed and upon 
the second withdrawing came out. I discovered this n st 
by following the male to it, he regularly, and at short 
intervals, visiting his sitting m.ate with choice morsels 
©f food. 
