_Sitta canadensis. Case 2, Figs. 60, 61_
Underparts brownish, a line through the eye, black
in the male, slate in the female. Smaller than the
White-breasted Nuthatch. L. 4-3/4.
_Range._ Nests from northern New England and
northern Minnesota into Canada; south along the
Alleghanies to North Carolina; winters from
southern Canada to the Gulf States.
Washington, irregularly abundant W.V., sometimes
rare, Sept. 15-May 10. Ossining, irregular W.V.,
Aug. 8-May 8. Cambridge, irregular T.V., and W.V.,
Aug. 15-Nov. 25; Nov. 25-Apl. 15. N. Ohio,
tolerably common W.V., Sept. 4-May 22. Glen Ellyn,
irregular T.V., Apl. 24-May 21; Aug. 19-Dec. 12.
SE. Minn., common T.V., uncommon W.V., Sept.
24-Apl. 21.
Late in August when I hear a note such as one might imagine a baby
Nuthatch would utter, I know that the Red-breasted Nuthatch has arrived
from the north perhaps to spend the winter, or, may be, to go farther
south. He never seems quite as familiar as his larger, louder-voiced,
white-breasted cousin, and if one wants to make his acquaintance it is
well to follow the sound of his penny-trumpet-like notes until their
author is discovered.