Perching- Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



72 7. White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis). 



L. 6. Ad. cf. Crown and fort-back bluish black; 

 sides of head and neck grayish white; tertials with 

 distinct black marks rounded at end. Ad. ?• Similar 

 but black of head and shoulders washed with gray. 

 Notes. Call, a nasal yank-yank and conversational 

 notes; song, a tenor, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, all on the same 

 note. 



Range. — Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains, 

 breeds from the Gulf States to Minnesota and New Brunswick; resi- 

 dent. 



727a. Slender-billed Nuthatch (5. c. aculeata). 



Similar to No. 727, but head usually greenish black; 

 black of tertials less deep and on next to inner one 

 usually pointed at end. 



Range. — Western North America west of the Rockies: breeds from 

 Lower California north to British Columbi. : resident. 



727b. Florida White-breasled Nuthatch (S. c. 



atkinsi). Similar to No. 727, but somewhat smaller, 

 wing-coverts and tertials not tipped with grayish; $ 

 with head black as in rj\ 



Range. — Florida and north along the coast to South Carolina. 



727c. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch (S. c. nelsont). 



Similar to No. 727a, but larger, W. 3.7, with some- 

 what more white in tail and more rusty on flanks and 

 lower belly. 



Range. — Wooded mountains of northern Chihuahua and Sonora, 

 Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and nortrrvard. (Meams.) 



727d. St. Lucas Nuthatch (5. c. lagutue). Simi- 

 lar to No. 727a, but with the wings and tail shorter, 

 the black tips of the outer tail-feathers more restricted; 

 W. 3.2; T. 1.7. (Brewster.) 



Range. — Higher mountains south of La Paz, Lower California. 

 (Brewster.) 



728. Red-breasted Nuthatch {Sitta canadensis). 

 L. 4.6. Ad. cf . A stripe through the eye and crown 

 black; line over eye white; underparts rusty. Ad. 9. 

 Similar, but crown gray like back, line through the 

 eye blackish, paler below. Notes. A fine, thin, nasal, 

 penny-trumpet like, drawled yna-yna. 



Range. — North America, breeding from the northern portions of the 

 northern tier of States northward, and southward In the Alleghanies 

 to Virginia, In the Rocky Mountain* to Colorado, and in the Sierra 

 Nevada in California; winters irregularly southward to the Gulf 

 States and Arizona. 



729. Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla.) L. 

 4.3. Ads. Crown brown; a white patch on nape; 

 back bluish gray; below grayish white, sometimes 

 tinged with buff. Yng. Crown whitish. Notes. A 

 conversational, twittering tnee-tnee. 



Range.— South Atlantic and Gulf States north toDelawire, accident- 

 ally to New York and casually to Missouri. 



730. Pygmy Nuthatch {Sitta pysmcea). L. 4.3. 

 Ads. Crown grayish olive; a whitish patch on nape; 

 a dark brown line through eye; below white tinged 

 with buff. Yng . Crown gray like back. Notes. A 

 metallic, clinking clittick, clittick 



Range. —Western North America, eas to the Rocky Mountains; 

 breeds from Mexico to British Columbia. 



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