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outer web of third feather pointed at end; sides of neck 
'pure white; larger, wing about 3! inches, bill longer, more 
Slemelere eat ti tea ute teeta hey dhe: ......Rocky Mountain Nuthatch. 
3. Crown black (male) or gray like back (female), with a black line 
through eye and a white one over it: under parts usually bright 
Bun Mve ao Spo OM MADE. soc ANS Red-bellied Nuthatch. 
3. Crown dull brownish (adult) or gray like back (young) changing to 
blackish before and behind eye, but no white line over eye; nape 
with a poorly defined whitespot ................. .Pygmy Nuthatch. 
727. *Sitta carolinensis Latham—WuitE-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 
Greater part of state, eastward; common resident and breeder. 
Omaha, Lincoln, West Point, Blair, Tekamah, Ponca, Neligh, Long 
Pine, ete. Breeds usually in April and May. 
727c. *Sitta carolinensis nelsoni Mearns—Rockxy Mounrain Nurwarcu. 
Sioux county, common resident and breeder. Oberholser has veri- 
fied this identification in regard to both winter specimens and breed- 
ing birds. To this form refer all the previous valid Nebraska records 
of aculeata. 
728. Sitta canadensis Linnaeus—Rup-BeLuiep NuTHATCH. 
Whole state; uncommon winter resident, present from the middle 
of October until the middle of May. There is much circumstantial 
evidence to indicate the breeding of this bird in the state, but as yet 
no definite record. Omaha, Dunbar, Lincoln, Dakota City, Neligh, 
- Long Pine, Sioux county. The earliest Lincoln record is October 
26, 1903, (Swenk), the latest May 10, 1898 (J. S. Hunter). 
730. Sitta pygmza Vigors—Pyemy NurHarcu. 
A fall and winter visitor in the pine clad region of northwest Ne- 
braska. Aughey met with this bird once (1877) in the ‘‘timbered 
bottoms and bluffs of the Niobrara river on the northern border of 
the state.” The Sioux county records for the ‘‘Brown-headed Nut- 
hatch,’”’ (see Bruner, Birds of Nebraska, p. 160), on Feb. 26, 1896 
(L. Skow), and for the ‘‘Hudsonian Chickadee,” on Dee. 13, 1895 
(L. Bruner), were both misidentifications and should refer to this 
species. The Omaha records for the ‘ ‘Pygmy Nuthatch” (I. ec. p. 160) 
refer probably to immature examples of the Red-bellied. | Ascends to 
higher parts in March and not breeding in the state. 
Faminty PARIDA—Tirnmicr 
1. Head conspicuously crested; above ashy with black forehead, below 
SP ete ean ry orn =.’ Putted ‘Titmouse: 
1. Head not crested; top of head and throat slausvablackes. voy vl. 2. . ete) 
2. Forehead and line over eye white; wings scarcely edged with 
MANGE anne Stn NI, ek S40) Mountain: Chickadee. 
2. Forehead black, no line over eye; wings broadly white-edged. . (3) 
3. Colors darker, above olive-gray, wings and tail moderately edged with 
