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SITTIDJE. 



Family SITTID^. 



Genus SITTA, Linn. 



Sitta cffisia, Meyer $■ Wolf. 



Sitta < uropea, Thien. Fortjrflanz. ges. Vog. tab. wii. fig. 16, a. 1, (1845- 

 54); Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 247, pi. Ixii. fig. iv (1856). 



Sitta < ■;( - ; .'i. Baedeker, Eier Evr. Vog. tab. 43. fig. 6 (1855 63); Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. iii. p. 175 (1873) ; GW. ?t>, Cta. Bw-rfs B. M. viii. p. 347 

 (1883); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 523, pi. L2 (1883); k*. Eggs of 

 Brit. Birds, p. 219, pi. 54. figs. 7 & 8 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. 

 p. 347 (1903). 



The eggs of the Common Nuthatch are mostly of a narrow and 

 pointed oval shape, and slightly glossy. They are white, marked 

 with reddish brown and lilac or lavender. On many specimen 

 markings consist chiefly of small blotches, either evenly distributed 



over the entiic shell, or forming a cap at the broader end. Seme 

 examples are evenly speckled all over, and others are unmarked, 

 except at the broad end, where a small and well-defined cap of 

 two or three shades of red mixed up together is formed. Examples 

 measure from -08 to "83 in length, and from -5 to "6 in breadth. 



5. 



Sparham, Norfolk, 24th April 

 (F. Norgate). 



Sparham, 30th May (F. N.). 



Middle 



Epping Forest (0. Salvin). 



Finchley (O. S.). 



Hampstead (O. S.). 



Devonshire. 



Elbeuf, France (Noury .- Hargitt 

 CollX 



Vo ares Mis., France (Mougel: Har- 

 gitt Coll.). 



- Mts. (Mougel: Hargitt Coll.). 



Cop rahagen, 24th April. 



Pomerama, 27th April (T. Hul- 

 lo ml). 



Pomerania, 7th May (T. II.). 



Pomerania, 18th May ( T. 11.). 



Pomerania, 20th Maj (T. 11.). 



S.W. Russia, lltli April [Goebel). 



Seebohm Coll. 



bin Coll. 

 Salvin-i lodman Coll. 

 Sah in-( Rodman C 11. 

 Sab in-Godman ( loll. 

 Sal\ in-Godman < loll. 

 Montagu Museum. 



■Inn ( loll. 



Seebohm ( loll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm ( 'oil. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seel ohm Coll. 



Inn ( 'oil. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Sitta neumayeri, Mid ah. 



Sitta syriaca, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xvii. fig. 15, a, b (1845- 

 54); Baedeker, Bier Eur. Vog. tab. 43. fig. 8 (1855-63); Bree, 

 Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iii. p. 52, pi. (1875); Danford, Ibis, 1878, 



p. 10. 



