5. siTTA. 355 



colour above rich slaty blue ; quills brownish ; central pair of tail- 

 feathers like the back, the others black, with white subtermiual 

 patches ; chin and cheeks white, passing on the throat into the 

 burnt-sienna colour which occupies the whole of the rest of the under- 

 parts ; under tail-coverts burnt-sienna with whitish tips ; under wing- 

 coverts blackish with whitish tips. Total length about 4 inches, 

 culmen 0-G, wing 2-65, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-6. 



■Adult female. Crown coloured like the back, but of rather darker 

 appearance, as the bases of the feathers are blackish ; underparts 

 paler than in the male. 



Hab. Nearly the whole of North America. 



a. (S ad. sk. Repulse Bay. Dr. Eae [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Muskoka, Canada. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 49th parallel, Oct. 6, N.A. Boundary Com- 



1S7 A {Dmvson). mission [P.]. 



d,e. (5 2 ad. sk. Chicago, Illinois. H. K. Coale, Esq. [P.]. 



/. S ad. sk. Ohio. Dr. Kirtland [P.]. 



g, h. c? ad. sk. Sumass, British Co- J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



liunbia. 



i, k. S2 ad. sk. West side Rocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Mountains. 



Subspecies a. Sitta villosa. 



Sitta villosa, Verr, Nouv. Arch. Mus., Bull. vol. i. p. 78, pi. 5. fig. 1 

 (1865); id. P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 436, 438 ; Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 350 ; 

 Dress. B. Eur. iii. p. 177, note ; Dav. &• Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 91, 

 pi. 13. 



Like S. canadensis in size and colour, but wanting the black patch 

 on the sides of the neck, these parts being creamy whitish ; under- 

 parts not so bright as in the American species, but more brownish 

 cream-colour. 



The female wants the black on the head, the crown being coloured 

 like the back. 



Hab. Northern China. It is scarcely specifically distinct from the 

 widely ranging North-American S. canadensis. 



a,b. (S 2 ad. sk. Peking, Aug. 1868 (E. Gould Collection. 



Sivi7ihoe). 



15. Sitta pygmsea. 



Sitta pygmsea, Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voy. p. 25, pi. 4 (1839); 

 Audiib. Orn. Biogr.\. p. 63, pi. 415 ; id. B. Amer. iv. p. 184, 

 pi. 250 ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 227 ; ficlat. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363 ; Baird, B. 



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