"I thought they only visited us in winter.

I don't remember ever hearing one sing, or seeing one in late spring or summer." "They live and nest everywhere in the eastern part of the country," said the Doctor; "but they are very silent and shy except in the autumn and winter.

In fact, this Nuthatch keeps his nest a secret from everybody but his wife and the Dryad of the tree in which he places it; he will not even trust the little branches with his precious home, but makes it in the wood of the tree itself.

You say, Rap, that you found one of these nests--won't you tell us about it ?" "It was this way," said Rap.

"I was up in a hickory tree trying to look over into a Woodpecker's hole that was in another tree, when I stepped on a stumpy branch that was rotten and partly broke off; and there, inside, was a soft nest made of feathers, with, four very little birds in it.