5. siTXA. 851 



10. Sitta castaneoventris. 



Ferruginous-bellied Nuthatch, Lath. Hist. B. iv. p. 74. 



Sitta castaneoventris, Franklin, P. Z. S. 18dl, p. 121 ; Jard. 8f Selbij, 



III. Oni. iii. pi. 145 ; lilyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 190 ; Gould, 



B. Asia, i. pi. 9 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. p. 721 ; Jerdon, B. Ind. i. 



p. 386; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 424; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 21; 



Dresser, B. Eur, iii. p. 176, note. 

 Sitta castaneiventris, Bp. C. A. i. p. 227 ; Reichenb. Handh., Scans. 



p. 151, pi. 512. figs. 3553-55 ; Sclat. Ibis, 1865, p. 310 ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1878, p. 209. 

 Sitta castanea, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 316 (1831). 

 Sitta ferrugineoventris, Goidd, Athenceum, 1849, p. 1183. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty blue, lightest on the head ; 

 a narrow black stripe from the nostrils, through the eye, along the 

 sides of the neck, leaving the loral region white like the cheeks, 

 chin, and upper throat ; ear-covei-ts and part of sides of neck jet- 

 black ; quills blackish, external web like the back, inner web edged 

 with white ; central pair of tail-feathers and outer web of the 

 others like the back, the outermost pairs with a subterminal white 

 patch on the inner web ; under wing-coverts and edge of wing black, 

 edged with bluish grey ; near the base of the primaries a white patch ; 

 all the underparts but the upper throat deep chestnut^cinnamon ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts bluish grey, broadly edged with chest- 

 nut ; bill horny black, paler at base of mandible ; legs lead-colour ; 

 iris brown. Total length about 6 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-85, 

 tail 1"5, tarsus 0-7. 



Females and young birds have the general colour above paler and 

 duller, the white spots on the tail larger ; all the underparts of the 

 body isabelline brown, deeper on the flanks and the abdomen ; the 

 bluish grey of the tail-feathers is restricted to part of the inner web. 



Hab. Afghanistan and the greater part of the Indian peninsula. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Seetapore. Gould Collection. 



d-f. c? ad. sk. Lucknow, April 15, 1879. Col. Way [P.]. 



ff. cJ ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 /(. $ ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 i. 2 ad. sk. Ohpore, Afghanistan India Museiun fP.l. 



(Gri^fh). 

 Jc. 2 ad. sk. Bharrowul, Afghanistan India Museum [P.]. 



{Gi-iffitli). 



11. Sitta cinnamomeoventris. 



Sitta einuamoventris, Bhjth, J. A. <S'. Beutj. xi. p. 459; id. Cat. B, 

 Mtis. As. Soc. p. 189; Hors_^. i)- Moore, Cut. p. 722. 



Sitta castaneoventris, Hod(js. in G'rai/'s Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844, nee 

 Frankl.). 



Sitta cinnameoventris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 148 (1846). 



Sitta cinnamomeoventris, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 93 (1850) ; Gould, B. 

 Asia, pi. 8 ; Bciehenb. Handb., Scans, p. 152, figs. 3556-58 ; Jerdon,B. 



