. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. — THE TITMICE. 115. Silln aculmla. l)i-own ; fniipcalod piiiiiarifs white. Bill stmit. Foiimlo with lilnck of lu'!«l };;e(l with iishy. Leiijrth iihout <j inchi's ; wiiifj aliout '). IIab. United States nid Uiitish I'roviiiccs ; west to Iho Valley of the Mi.«.soiiri. TfATilTS. The coiriiion Wliite-liellied NiiMiatch an exteinletl (listrilm- tion tlirougliout la-arly tlie wliole of Kasteni North Aiiieiicu, from the Athiu- tic to the IJocky iMountaiiis. West of th
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. — THE TITMICE. 115. Silln aculmla. l)i-own ; fniipcalod piiiiiarifs white. Bill stmit. Foiimlo with lilnck of lu'!«l };;e(l with iishy. Leiijrth iihout <j inchi's ; wiiifj aliout '). IIab. United States nid Uiitish I'roviiiccs ; west to Iho Valley of the Mi.«.soiiri. TfATilTS. The coiriiion Wliite-liellied NiiMiatch an exteinletl (listrilm- tion tlirougliout la-arly tlie wliole of Kasteni North Aiiieiicu, from the Athiu- tic to the IJocky iMountaiiis. West of the great central plains it is replaced by the var. andcnta. It not been met with, so far as 1 tun aware, farther north than Nova Scutiti. It is a resi- dent of Eastern Maine, and is tpiite common in the southern and western portions of tlie same State. In cinisetts it is rather coniiiion than abun- dant, and more plentiful in the western than in the eastern portio?\s of that State. The habits of this and tlu! other species of Nut'.atches jmrtake somewhat of those of the smaller Woodpec^kers and of the Titmice. Without the noisy and restless activity of the latter, they seek their food in a similar manner, and not unfrecpiently do so in their company, moving up or down the trunks and over or under the branches of trees, searching every crack and crevice of the bark for insects, larvio, or eggs. Like the Woodpeck- ers, they dig industriously into decayed brandies for the hidden grub, and like both Woodjjeckei-s and Chickadees they industriously for themselves a ])lace for their nests in the decayed trunks of forest trees. Their nest, how- ever, is usually at a greater elevation, often some twenty or thirty feet from the ground. The European Nutluitch is said to plaster up the entrance to its nest, to contract its opening and lessen the diingers of unfriendly intrusion. This habit has never been observed in any of the American species. All our ornitholog
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