136 SYNONYMY OF SITTA CANADENSIS 



This is a ratber scanty lining of an indiscriminate mass of soft 

 vegetable and animal snbstances. Tlie eggs, to the number of 

 five or six, measure on an average about four-fifths of an inch 

 in length, and three-fifths in breadth. They are white, often 

 with a rosy or creamy hue, speckled and blotched with reddish- 

 brown and purplish or lavender shades, sometimes evenly and 

 thickly over the whole surface, oftener chiefly about the larger 

 end, where a wreath of the markings may be more or less per- 

 fectly formed. 



f£ecl-E»elliecl IViithntcli 



Sitta canadensis 



Sitta canadensis, L. SN. i. 17<i6, 177, no. 2 (Briss. iii. 593, no. 2, pi. 29, f. i). — Budd. Tabl. 

 PE. 1783, 38.— Got. SN. i. 1788, 441, no. 2.— Lath. ID. i. 1790, 262, no. 2.— Tart. SN. i. 

 1806, 271.— Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 96.— NiUt. iMan. i. 1832, 5S3.—Aud. OB. ii. 1834, 

 24, pi. 105.— Ornith. Comvi. Journ. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 193 (Columbia River). — /?p. C. 

 & GL. 1838, 10.— Peab. Rep. Om. Mass. 1839, 339.— Tokms. Journ. Phila. Acad. viii. 1839, 

 i5:j.—Aiul. Syn. 1839, Ul.—Nutt. Man. 2d ed. i. 1840, 697.— ^!(rf. BA. iv. 1842, 179, pi. 

 248.— Gam6. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1846, 112 (California). — B/^. CA. i. 1650, 227.— jVcCn//, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. v. 1851, 215 (Texas).— CaZ/o«, Naum. ii. Hft. iii. 1852, 66 (Lake Supe- 

 r\OT).—Hoy. Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 381 (Wisconsin).— T/ioznps. Vermont, 1853, 95.— 

 Read, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 401 (Ohio).— A'c/r/izc. Tr. Illinois Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 

 584.— Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. vii. 1855, 313 (New Mexico).— PiiSw. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 

 214.— Kneel. Pr. Bost. Soc. vi. 1857, 233.— Bd. BNA. 1858, 3H9.— PFillis, Smiths. Rep. for 

 1858, 1859, 283 (Nova Scotia).— //e/iry, Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 18.59, 107 (New Mexico).— 

 Coop. SfStick. NHWT. 1860, 193.— Burn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860,1861, 437.—Bd. Ives'« 

 Rep. Col. R. pt. vi. 1861, 6 (Fort Yuma).— 5c/. CAB. 1861, 15.— Co(«es &r Prent. Smiths. 

 Rep. for 1861, 1862, 4\1.—Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, IGi.-Blak. Ibis, 1862, 

 5 (Saskatchewan).- Boarrfm. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 1862, 126.— Terr. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 1865, 

 138 (Anticosti).— Tcr;-. I'r. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 149.— Blah. Ibis, v. 1863, 67.— Brf. RAB. 

 1864, 87.— Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864 69. —Feilner, Smiths. Rep. for 1864. 1865, 426 

 (California).— .Sc/. Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 3Ll.—J/c/tor. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 88.— Cones, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad, xviii. 1866, 79 (Arizona).— Z,a!cr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866. 283.— 

 Brown, Ibis, 2d. ser. iv. 1868, 421 (Vancouver).— Ooiies, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 279.— 

 Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 107 (South Carolina).— Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 74.— 

 Allen, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 581.— Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 28 ; Phila. ed. 2\.— Coop. B. Cal. i. 

 1870, 54.— Abbott, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 546.— Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, m.—.'itev. U. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 46i.—Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 359.— Trippe, 

 Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 47.— Cones, Key, 1872, 83, f. •27.—Hcnsh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874. 73 (Col- 

 orado, breeding).— Coues, BNW. 1874.25.-5.5.^7?. NAB. i. 1874,118, pi. 8, f. 7.— 

 Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438.— Hen.ih.. List 15. Ariz. 1875, 155.— Hensh. Zool. Expl. 



W. 100 Merid. 1876, 174. 

 Sitta varia, Bartr. Trav. Fla. l.st Am. ed. 1791, 29» 

 bis.— W7/S.A0. i. 1808, 40, pi. 2, f. 4.—Bp. .Journ. 

 Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 25, 275. 

 Sitta stulta, " Vieilt." 



iSittcUe de Canada, " Bnf. x. 2()9 ' ; " v. 471 '. 

 Torchepot du Canada, Bnf. PE. 623, f. 2. 

 Canada Nuthatch, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, 281, no. 170 (in 

 part ; the description and tigure are those of S. 

 FIG. 21.-nead of Canada Nuthatch. caro.inens,s).-Lath.Syn.i. 1782, pt. 2, 631, no. 2. 



Nuthatch du Canada, Le Maine. Ois. Canad. 1861,2.37. 

 Canada Nuthatch, Red-bellied Nuthatch, Vulg. 

 Hab.— Wo ockd portions of temperate North America. 



