. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . y as a rare visitant; it isabsent from the rest of New England. Its loud whistle,like the syllables peto, attracts notice to it, and its co7i-spicuous crest and plain gray colors make it easy to iden-tify. It has also lisping calls very like the Chickadees,and a hoarse dee dee dee. Eed-breasted Nuthatch ; Eed-bellied Nuthatch. Sitta canadensis Ad. $. — Upper parts bluish-gray, top of head and s
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . y as a rare visitant; it isabsent from the rest of New England. Its loud whistle,like the syllables peto, attracts notice to it, and its co7i-spicuous crest and plain gray colors make it easy to iden-tify. It has also lisping calls very like the Chickadees,and a hoarse dee dee dee. Eed-breasted Nuthatch ; Eed-bellied Nuthatch. Sitta canadensis Ad. $. — Upper parts bluish-gray, top of head and stiipethrough eye black; line over eye white; under parts 9- —Top of head and stripe through eye bluish-gray; underparts paler. Nest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, white, speckled with reddish-brown. In northern New England and New York, in tracts ofspruce, the Red-bellied Nuthatch is generally an abundantpermanent resident. The fovests are sometimes filled withits little nasal call. At very irregular intervals, it movessouthward in large numbers, and becomes a common fallmigrant, in Se])tember and October, throughout southernNew England and the Hudson Valley. After such a. 86 BIRDS OF XEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK migration many individuals stay through the winter, andsome linger till May. As an ordinary thing, however, thesebirds find food enough in the north,and are either entirely absent in south-ern Xew England in winter, or occuronly as straggling migrants, or as rarewinter visitants. When they come south, they resort either to the pinesFig. 3. Red-bellied ^ \^ \t ■<• • ^ Nutliatch. °^ ^^ ^^^® JNorway spruces, clinging to the cones till they extract the seeds,then flying with nervous little movements to a limb wherethey either hammer open the seed, or as frequently hammerit into a crevice for safe-keeping. The Eed-bellied Xut-hatch is a very active, restless bird, and its short tail givesit a comical air of fussiness. The ordinary call-note
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