5 siTTA. 345 



2. Sitta amurensis. 



Sitta amurensis, Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 3o0 ; Taczan. J. f. 0. 1875, 

 p. 2U ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 136 (1876) ; Dav. Sf 

 Oiisfal. Ois. Chine, p. 90; Bolau, J.f. O. 18S0, p. 115. 



The Nuthatches from the Amoor country are intermediate in 

 colour between the northern form (S. europcea) and the southern one 

 {S. ccesia). The chin, sides of neck, throat, and breast are pure 

 white : the axillaries, sides of breast, abdomen, and flanks are 

 ochraceous buff, inclining to chestnut on the flanks ; there is, how- 

 ever, no pronounced chestnut patch to the flanks : under tail-coverts 

 and all the other parts as in *S'. europcea. 



2 (Ussuri). Culmen 0-75 inch, wing 3-15, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-75. 



Hab. Siberia. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Ussuri river, 48° N. lat., R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Nov. 12, 1873 (Bybotvski). 



b. (S ad. sk. Narimskaja, Ob, 58° N. lat.. Dr. Finsch [C.]. 

 (moixlting). Sept. 16, 1876. 



3. Sitta magna. 



Sitta magna, Wardlaw Ramsay, P. Z, S. 1876, p. 677, pi. Ixiii. ; id. 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 465 ; Hume, ,Str. F. 1877, p. 343 ; id. * Davison, 

 Sir. F. 1878, p. 201 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 90 ; Oates, B. Brit. 

 Burm. p. 133. 



General colour above blue-grey, paler on the nape and crown ; 

 very conspicuous black stripe from nostrils, over the eye, along the 

 sides of the neck ; underparts of body " smoky grey, nearly white 

 about thi'oat and neck ; lower tail-coverts, vent, and thighs bril- 

 liant chestnut, each feather of the former broadly tipped with 

 white" (IF. Ramsay)-. aU the other parts are coloured as in S. 

 europcea. Culmen 1 inch, wing 45, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-95 



Hah, Burmah. 



4. Sitta neumayeri. 



Sitta neumayeri, Michah. Isis, 1830, p. 814; Poivys, Ibis, 1860, 



p. 232; Kriiper, J.f. O. 1861, p. 129; Dec/l. ^- Gerbe, Orn. Eur. 



i. p. 183 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 183, pi. 120 ; Hume, Str. F. 



1878, p. 373 ; Sclialoiu, J. f. O. 1880, p. 272 ; Gicjlioli, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 195. 

 Sitta nifescens, Gotdd, B.Eur, iii. pi. 235 (1832). 

 Sitta rupestris, Cantr. in Temm. Man. d' Orn. iii. p. 287 (1835). 

 Sitta saxatilis, Schinz, Eur. Faun. i. p. 266 (1840). 

 Sitta syriaca, Ehrb., Temm. Man. d Orn. iii. p. 286 (1835) ; Gi-ay, 



Gen. B. i. p. 147 ; Degl Orn. Eur. i. p. 603; Bjj. C. A. i. p. 227 ; 



Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 93 ; Lindermayer, Voy. Griechenl. (1860) 



p. 67; Riva, Orn. Ticinese, p. 311 ; Gray, Hand-J. B. i. p. 181, 



no. 2485 ; Doderl. Aves Sicil. p. 59 ; Rey, Syn. europ. Brutvoq. 



p. 30. 

 Sitta rupicola, Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 87 ; ? id. East. Pers, ii. p. 225, 



pi. XV. fig. 2 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 176, note. 



Adult male. General colour above pale slaty blue or lead-colour ; 



