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



727. White-breasted Nuthatch {Sitta carolinensis) . 

 L. 6. Ad. <j\ Crown and foreback bluish black; 

 sides of head and neck grayish white; tertials with 

 distinct black marks rounded at end. Ad. 9. 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-ba-ba, 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 Columbia: resident. 



727b. Florida White-breasted Nuthatch (5. c. 



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

 wing-coverts and tertials not tipped with grayish; 9 

 with head black as in J 4 . 



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



727c. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch (5. c. nelsoni). 

 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 northward. (Mearns.) 



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

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

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

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



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

 (Brewster.) 



72J^ Red-breasted Nuthatch {Sitta canadensis). 

 L. 4.6. Ad. cj\ 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 Mountains 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 to Virginia, accident- 

 ally to New York and casually to Missouri. 



730. Pygmy Nuthatch {Sitta pygmcea). 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, east to the Rocky Mountains; 

 breeds from Mexico to British Columbia. 



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