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CITIZEN BIRD 



1)V a l)laek line; but young birils and tenuiles have only the yellow 

 and black stripes, uitliout any red. 



Under parts soiled white, without any marks. 



A Citizen of the United States, and a Tree Trapper. 



THE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH 



"'Yank: yank!' says the AVliite- 



breasted Nuthatch, as he 



runs up tree-trunks and 



comes doA^■n again head 



foremost, quite as a matter 



of course. 



'' At first, or from a dis- 

 tance, you may mistake 

 him for his cousin the Chick- 

 adee, A\ho wears ck^thes of 

 much tlie same color 

 and is seen in the same 

 phices ; or perhaps for 

 the little Downy Wood- 

 pecker, who also hammers 

 his insect food out of the 

 tree bark. 

 " But at a second glance 

 you will find the Nuthatch is ver}' different. He keeps 

 his body very close to the tree and uses his feet to 

 creep about like a mouse or chipmunk ; he also goes 

 uj^side down, in a way that Woodpeckers never do, 

 clings to the under side of a branch as easily as a fly 

 to the ceiling, and often roosts or takes a nap head 

 downward on the side of a tree-trunk — a position that 





Whtte-breasted Nuthatch. 



