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ORANGE-WINGED NUTHATCH. 



Sitta chrysoptera. S. cinerea subtus albida, alls caudaque fuscis, 

 remigibus medio aurantio-ferrugineis. Lath. ind. orn. svppl. 



Cinereous Nuthatch whitish beneath, with brown wings and tail, 

 the quill-feathers orange-ferruginous on the middle. 



Orange-winged Nuthatch. Lath. syn. suppl. 2. pi. ] 2/. 



A VERY small species, at least according to the 

 drawing from which the description was made: 

 colour above olivaceo-cinereous, with orange-co- 

 loured quill-feathers tipped with brown: under 

 parts and rump blueish white: tail short, and 

 slightly tipped, except on the two middle feathers, 

 with white: bill -brown: legs blueish. Native of 

 New Holland. 



GREEN NUTHATCH. 



Sitta Chloris. S. corpore supra viridi, subtus candido, cauda atrti, 



ultimo apicejla'cicante. Luth. ind. orn. 

 Nuthatch with the body green above, and white below; the tail 



black, with the extreme tip yellowish. 

 Sitta Chloris. Mus. Carls, fuse. 2. /. 33. 



DESCRIBED by Sparmann in his Museum Carl- 

 sonianum: size of the Surinam Nuthatch: colour 

 green above, milk-white beneath: wings brown, 

 edged with olive, and with a transverse yellowish 

 middle bar: tail short and black, with yellowish 

 tip: bill longer than the head: legs rather long. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



