120 



CITIZEN BIRD 



by a black line; but young birds and females have only the yellow 

 and black stripes, without any red. 



Under parts soiled white, without any marks. 



A Citizen of the United States, and a Tree Trapper. 



THE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH 



Yank! yank!' says the White- 

 breasted Nuthatch, as he 

 runs up tree-trunks and 

 comes down again head 

 foremost, quite as a matter 

 of course. 



" At first, or from a dis- 

 tance, you may mistake 

 liim for his cousin the Chick- 

 adee, who wears clothes of 

 much tlie same color 

 and is seen in the same 

 places ; or perhaps for 

 the little Downy Wood- 

 pecker, who also hammers 

 his insect food out of the 

 tree bark. 

 " But at a second glance 

 you will find the Nuthatch is very different. He keeps 

 his body very close to the tree and uses his feet to 

 creep about like a mouse or cliipmunk ; he also goes 

 upside down, in a way that AVoodpeckers never do, 

 clings to the under side of a branch as easily as a fly 

 to the ceiling, and often roosts or takes a nap head 

 downward on the side of a tree-trunk — a position that 



AVhite-brkastkd Nuthatch. 



