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BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND

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WHITE —BELLIEI) NUTHATCH.

( Slim C a ruling” 51.5)

This is not a common bird with us, but a few are met with in the older settled parts of the country. We have seen them in the summer and late autumn. It is larger than the next species which it resembles in general appearance, but the under parts are white, and there is more white on the wings. It is less active and noisy. It is a beautiful, sedate little bird, wandering over the trunks of the deciduous forest trees

uttering its peculiar 121’. 12k, zit/c. ’WW RED~BELLIED NU'l‘HATCH.

(Sim: C amza’eflsz's )

This is one of our most common resident birds, flocking with the Chickadees, and helping to relieve the monotony of the winter woods by

its animated ways. From the Chickadees it is