136 SYNONYMY OF SITTA CANADENSIS 



This is a rather scanty lining of an indiscriminate mass of soft 

 vegetable and animal substances. The eggs, to the number of 

 five or six, measure on an average about four-fifths of an inch 

 in length, and three-fifths in breadth. They are white, often 

 with a rosy or creamy hue, speckled and blotched with reddish- 

 brown and purplish or lavender shades, sometimes evenly and 

 thickly over the whole surface, oftener chiefly about the larger 

 end, where a wreath of the markings may be more or less per- 

 fectly formed. 



Red-bellied Nuthatch 



Sitta caiiadeiisis 



Sitta Canadensis, L. SN. i. 1766, 177, no. 2 (Briss. iii. 593, no. 2, pi. 29, f. 4).Bodd. Tabl. 

 PE. 1783, 38. Gm. SN. i. 1788, 441, no. 2. Lath. IO. i. 1790, 262, no. 2. Turt. SN. i. 

 1806, 271. Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 96.Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 583. Aud. OB. ii. 1834, 

 24, pi. 105. Ornith. Comm. Journ. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 193 (Columbia River). Bp. C. 

 & GL. 1838, 10. Peab. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 339. Towns. Journ. Phila. Acad. viii. 1839, 

 155. Aud. Syn. 1839, 167. Nutt. Man. 2d ed. i. 1840, 697. Aud. BA. iv. 1842, 179, pi. 

 5248. Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1846, 112 (California). Bp. CA. i. 1850, 227,McCaU, 

 Pr. Pbila. Acad. v. 1851, 215 (Texas). Cabot, Naum. ii. Hft. iii. 1852, 66 (Lake Supe- 

 rior). Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 381 (Wisconsin). Thomps. Vermont, 1853, 95. 

 Read, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 401 (Ohio). Kennic. Tr. Illinois Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 

 584. Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. vii. 1855, 313 (New Mexico). Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 

 214. Kneel. Pr. Bost. Soc. vi. 1857, 233. Bd. BNA. 1858, 376. Willis, Smiths. Rep. for 

 1858, 1859, 283 (Nopa Scotia). Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 1859, 107 (New Mexico). 

 Coop. <V Suck. NHWT. 1860, 193. Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 437. Bd. Ives'a 

 Rep. Col. R. pt. vi. 1861, 6 (Fort Yurna). Scl. CAB. 1861, 15. Coues ff Prent. Smiths. 

 Rep. for 1861, 1862, 411. Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, 164. Blak. Ibis, 1862, 

 5 (Saskatchewan). Boardm. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 1862, 126. Verr. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 186S, 

 138 (Anticosti). Verr. I'r. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 149. Blak. Ibis, V. 1863, 67. Bd. RAB. 

 1864, 87. Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864 69. Feilner, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865. 426 

 (California). Scl Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 311. Mcllwr. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 88. Cones, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. xviii. 1866, 79 (Arizona). Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866. 283. 

 Brown, Ibis, 2d. ser. iv. 1868, 421 (Vancouver). Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 279. 

 Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 107 (South Carolina). Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 74. 

 Allen, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 581. Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 28 ; Phila. ed. 21. Coop. B. Cal. i. 

 1870, 54. Abbott, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 546,Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, llT.Stev. IT. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 464. Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 359.Trippe, 

 Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 47. Coues, Key, 1872, 83, f. 27.Hensk. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 73 (Col- 

 orado, breeding). Coues, BNW. 1874. 26. B. B. ff R. NAB. i. 1874,118, pi. 8, f. 7. 

 Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438,Hensk. List B. Ariz. 1875, 155.Hensh. Zool. Expl. 



W. 100 Merid. 1876, 174. 



Sitta Varia, Bartr. Trav. Fla. 1st Am. ed. 1791, 289 

 bis. Wils.&Q. i. 1808, 40, pi. 2, f. 4. Bp. Journ. 

 Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 25, 275. 

 Sitta stulta, " Vieill." 



Sittelle de Canada, " Buff. x. 209 " ; " v. 471 ". 

 Torchepot du Canada, Buff. PE. 623, f. 2. 

 Canada Nuthatch, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, 281, no. 170 (in 

 part ; the description and figure are those of Si 

 FIG. 21.-Head of Canada Nuthatch. C aroanenst S ).-Lath.Syu.l 1782, pt. 2, 651, no. 3. 



Nuthatch du Canada, Le Maine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 237. 

 Canada Nuthatch, Red-bellied Nuthatch, Vulg. 

 HAB. Wo oded portions of temperate North America. 



