. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 204 BIRDS OF AMERICA wool, and feathers. Eggs : 5 or 6, dull white or creamy specked with shades of chestnut and lavender- gray. Distribution.— Coast pine belt of southeastern United States, from southern Maryland and southern Delaware to Florida and eastern Texas northward; irregularly or casually, to New York, Ohio, southern Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, and Bahamas. All through the pine woods of the Southern States the Brown-headed Nuthatch is found. It is a diminutive bird, beins; much smaller than the. Photo by 1 Ij. 1 oil Cu U^j ol \..it
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 204 BIRDS OF AMERICA wool, and feathers. Eggs : 5 or 6, dull white or creamy specked with shades of chestnut and lavender- gray. Distribution.— Coast pine belt of southeastern United States, from southern Maryland and southern Delaware to Florida and eastern Texas northward; irregularly or casually, to New York, Ohio, southern Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, and Bahamas. All through the pine woods of the Southern States the Brown-headed Nuthatch is found. It is a diminutive bird, beins; much smaller than the. Photo by 1 Ij. 1 oil Cu U^j ol \..it VuU bol. NEST OF BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH Florida common and better-known \\hite-breasted Nut- hatch. Rarely is it ever seen out of the open pine woods. It does not have the habit of feed- ing along the boles of trees like the larger species just referred to, but confines its attention to such insects and their eggs as may be found along the higher branches or among the cones and terminal twigs. The birds usually travel in bands, which may possibly constitute the families of the pre- vious year. In the spring until the young leave the nest rarely more than two are found to- gether. Although very small, these birds possess wonderful power when it comes to excavating their nesting-holes in some rotten stump. Of the hundred or more nests that I have examined, few were more than twelve feet from the ground, although in rare instances they may be as high as forty feet. The entrance to the nest is rarely round like that of the Woodpecker, and some- times when the wood is hard it looks more like a crack in the tree than like the entrance to a bird's nest. The hole is excavated to a depth of from five to eight inches, and is abundantly lined with soft materials of various kinds; among which one will usually find wings of the pine- tree seeds. The bird possesses a characteristic, but not ofifensive, musk with which the entire nest is scented. Bv smelling in a hole suspected to be oc
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