the present, 



NUTCRACKER. 



present, to leave the matter undecided. Mr. Fisher adds, 

 (but his own opinion, I should add, is against the supposed 

 difference of the species,) 'the other distinctions between the 

 thick and thin-billed Nutcrackers are the greater strength of 

 the feet and claws of the former, a circumstance noticed by 

 J-lrehm, who described them as two species, under the names 

 of the long and short-billed Nutcrackers, and the different 

 form of the white mark at the end of the tail, which in 

 'Xucifraga caryoc itactes' is much straighter than in 'Nucifraga 

 brachyrrhynchus.' This, with the other distinctions which I 

 have mentioned, obtain more or less in all the specimens I 

 have had an opportunity of examining.' 



