140 SITTIN. 
on the head; throat and abdomen whitish, the latter barred with 
dusky ; tail banded and fuscous, 
The Spotted-grey Creeper has been obtained at Mount Aboo ; 
it has not been recorded from any other portion of our limits, 
Sus-Famixy, Sittine. 
Bill of moderate length, nearly straight, stout, compressed at 
the tip; wings moderate ; tail short, even ; toes long and slender ; 
outer-toe longest, syndactyle. 
Genus, Sitta, Zin. 
Bill moderate, straight, wedge-shaped ; tip entire, barely de- 
flexed ; nostrils basal, rounded, covered by setaceous tufts ; wings 
rather long, first quill short, fourth and fifth equal and longest ; 
tail short, even, soft; feet short, strong; the inner-toe very 
short ; outer nearly equal to the middle one, all cleft to the 
base ; hind-toe long, equal to the tarsus; claws strong, broad and 
well curved, , 
Sitta castaneiventris, Franklin. 
250.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 386. 
THE CHESNUT-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 
Length, 5°5; wing, 3°1; tail, 1:7; bill at front, 0°68. 
Bill horny-black ; irides brown ; legs plumbeous. 
Above greyish-plumbeous, lightest on the head and hape ; 
stripe from the gape, through the eyes, to the nape, black ; 
quills, with the inner webs of the feathers, black ; throat and 
face white; breast and under tail-coverts, with the abdomen, 
deep chesnut bay in the male, dark cinnamon color in the 
female; the tail has the two central feathers grey, the rest 
blackish ; the outermost three on each side with large white 
spots on the inner webs near the tip; the outermost of all has 
also a spot on the outer web near the base; the two next the 
uropygials are grey at the tip and on the outer web. 
The Chesnut-bellied Nuthatch occurs in most of the jungles of 
Central India ; it is much more common on the Vindhian Range. 
Genus, Dendrophila, Swainson. 
General structure of Sitta; nostrils large, oval, open, nearly 
naked, with a very few incumbent hairs; base of bill widened ; 
tip of the culmen slightly inclined downwards ; the foot typical, 
with the hind-toe, if anything, larger. 
Dendrophila frontalis, Horsf. 
253.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 388; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 391. 
THE VELVET-FRONTED BLUE NUTHATCH. 
Length, 5; extent, 85; wing, 3; tarsus, 0°9; tail, 1°5. 
