song 
actions 
notes 
arrival 
flight 
of 
victor 
January 19, 1902. 
Vol 1 *s ’./oods - y : 05 A. LI. 
I 
The white-breasted nuthatches seem to 
have gone crazy this morning. It is 
sunny and mite warm. I could hear 
them calling in all directions, hut de¬ 
voted my attention to a certain pair. I 
noticed that they had two songs - one 
the ery-ery ery or to v,-hery whery whery 
and the other er-er—er—er given very 
fast. The male would run up and down 
limbs as fast as he could go with 
drooping wings and spread tail and then 
fly over to her and run around her two 
or three times giving notes like sick- 
it-a-enka and en k-enk all the timeT 
Another male attracted by his antic came 
over to be promptly chased away. Ke 
tried to come back several 
II 
times. They did not fight for the 
stranger flew as soon as the other- 
approached. Then the victorious male 
flew to another tree about 10 rods away 
with an erratic batlike flight very 
evidently for the edification of his 
mate. lie was soon back however to guard 
her from intruders. The two fighting 
looked like huge bats. After the male 
gave the second song written about 
several times. 
