. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Red-breasted Nuthatch and spotted with reddish brown. Av. size 16 x (.63 x .48). Season: First week in May; one brood. General Range.—North America at large, breeding from northern New England, northern New York, and northern Michigan northward, and southward in the Alle- ghanies, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada; also on Guadalupe Island, Lower California, and Santa Cruz Island, California; in winter south to about the southern border o
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Red-breasted Nuthatch and spotted with reddish brown. Av. size 16 x (.63 x .48). Season: First week in May; one brood. General Range.—North America at large, breeding from northern New England, northern New York, and northern Michigan northward, and southward in the Alle- ghanies, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada; also on Guadalupe Island, Lower California, and Santa Cruz Island, California; in winter south to about the southern border of the United States. Distribution in California.—Summer resident of the Canadian zone in the Sierras and other ranges, as, the Warners, Trinities, San Jacintos, and sparingly in the humid coast belt south at least to Cazadero in Sonoma County. Perhaps irregularly residenton Santa Cruz Island. Winters irregularly, some- times abundantly, in wooded valleys at lower levels, prac- tically throughout the State, or even at the edges of the desert. Casual upon the Farallon Islands (Bryant, and May 24, 1911, Author). Authorities.—Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iii., 1846, p. 112 (Calif.); Cones, Birds Col. Val., 1878, p. 136 (syn., desc, habits, etc.); Averill, Auk, vol. v., 1888, p. 118 (feeding habits); Beat, U. S. Dept. Agric, Yearbook, 1900, p. 296 (food; relation to orchards); How- ell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 12, 1917, p. 99 (Santa Cruz Id., probably breeding). THERE is nothing big about the Red- breasted Nuthatch save his voice. If undis- turbed, birdikins pursues the even tenor of his ways, like any other winged bug-hunter; but once provoke his curios- ity or arouse suspicion, and he publishes forth- with a broadside of sen-. Pholo by the Author Taken in Fresno County A NUTHATCH MAY LOOK AT A KING AND DOUBTLESS MANY NUTHATCHES HAVE USED THIS OLD TREE TO OBTAIN A CLOSE-UP OF TEHIPITE DOME 644. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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