1896 Sitta Canadensis Nesting habits May 25- Lealk Umbagog (no 2) saws more than the terminal half) into which the morsel would be transformed in a twinkling. Sometimes after feeding her & would cling to his neck for a moment & look around but usually he started off at once and presently would be heard whining 100 yards or more away in the thences or brushlocks behind our camp. Every hour or so then I would come out when the whoo - whoo - whoo signal was given, sometimes telling her partner's offering at the hole as usual & sometimes obliging him to follow her to the next tree where the crowded green branch I gripped her wings like a young bird as he fed her. Then the two would scramble off through the tree tops keeping near together & whining & calling to one another. But a sense of her duty always brought the & back within at the most 5 or 10 minutes. She usually returned alone and always, unless disturbed at my too near presence (as, for instance, when I was adjusting my camera), she flew directly into the hole without so much as touching her feet to its rim or even dropping them, but merely shutting her head a little at the last and closing her wings abruptly just as her head disappeared. It was one of the prettiest and cleverest tricks of flight that I have ever seen. Watrous & John Burnham watched it with me many times and both agreed that the feet were not used. but that the bird literally flew into her nest. Once when her rest had been about much beyond her usual time (in fact for nearly 40 minutes) she came out and started off in quest of him whining as I thought in anxious tones as if apprehensive for his safety. When she came back from this trip the & came with her. (I was unable to watch this nest much after the above date. After June 1st the parent birds, as well as all their brood about the hole, became very silent & inconspicuous. 69