Sitta canadensis. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nest and eggs. 1896. This afternoon Jim and I accompanied Watrous to the nest May 23. of the Red-bellied Nuthatch which he had found in the morning to the eastward (where Mason logged several winters ago). We took a long rope, axe, saw, etc. The nest was in a balsam a- bout 15 feet above the ground. Watrous sawed off the stub thrice, once just above the hole, once a little below it, and again below the nest which contained a set of six eggs so near hatching that it is doubtful if we can save them. The female was sitting. She came out when we tapped hard on the stub and we did not see her again. There was much pitch about the hole.