Appendix, 



1 84. California Brown Creeper ; Certhia 

 familiar is accident a lis Ridgw. 



Length five inches. Above streaked brownish and 

 grayish, rusty colored on the rump. Below 

 dull whitish, line of white over eye, and light 

 wing markings. Breeds in the mountains; south 

 in winter in the coniferous region and other 

 timbered districts. 



THE NUTHATCH AND TITMOUSE FAMILY. 



Small, mostly dull-colored birds, most of which 

 peck the bark for their insect food. Vivacious, 

 frequently cHnging head downward; songs and 

 calls simple and generally unmusical. Birds of 

 the woods and groves. The nuthatches may 

 be readily distinguished by their general resem- 

 blance to a diminutive woodpecker with a plain 

 bluish gray back. 



185. Slender-billed Nuthatch; Sitta caroline?isis 

 aculeata (Cass.). 



The western race of the common eastern white- 

 breasted nuthatch. Length about five and a 

 half inches. Top of head and neck black; dark 

 grayish in the female. Breast white. Tail 

 conspicuously marked with white. A resident 

 of the mountains and foothills in the forested 

 parts of the State. 



186. Red-breasted Nuthatch; Sitta canadensis 

 Linn. 



Length about four and a half inches. Top of 

 head black in male and gray in female: a line of 

 black through the eye, extending back on neck, 



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