X18 NORTH AMERICAN UIRDS. 



year, in the vicinity of Carson City, among the pines on tlw Sierra Neva(hi 

 Mountains, lie noted its great similarity in manners to the earulinciiHU ; at 

 the same time tlie well-marked dilference in the notes did not esca])e his 

 attention. Tiiese notes are nuich weaker, and are uttered in a finer tone, and 

 some of thoni are said to be entirely dill'erent. 



Sitta canadensis, Tjnx. 



BED-BELLIED NTTTHATCH. 



;Sif/ii ciniiiikiini.i, I, INN. Syst. Nut. I, 17(i('>, 177. —Am. Oiii. nioj;. 11, 1834, pi. eviii. — 

 lit. Itirds Am. IV, pi. ccxlviii. — liKicii. lliiinlli. Al>li. II, IS.'iIi, IfrJ, tiili. dxiii, lig.s. 

 li.'itil, :\'iiJ-2. — lUinn, lUids N. Am. lS.'),s, ;i7t> ; Hcvicw, 87. -- S(i„\ri:i!, Ciitiil. 

 Ifiiil, 1;'), no. !tl. — Cooi'Kii, Oiii. C'iil. I, 1870, 54. Hil/d viiriii, WiLs. Am. Oin. I, 

 18U8, 4(1, jil. ii. 



Sp. Cn.\li. Al)ov(! ii.^liy-liluc. Tup of head lilack ; a white line aliovo and a black one 

 tlii'0U};'h tiie eye. Cliin white ; rest of under parts lirowni.sli-nisty. Leii<,'th alxmt A.M 

 iiieht'.s ; wiiif;, 2.()(1. Feinali' with the lilaek of head ini.Ked with ashy : beneath paler, 

 more of a nniddy-white. 



II.\i!. Whulc l.'iiiled Stales and liriti.sh I'roviiici's. North to Lake Winnipeg. 



IlAitlTS. The common Ifed-bellied Nutliatch, thougli nowliere a very 

 ahundant .<!])ecies, is found throughout tlie vliole of Niu'th America, fnmi 

 Florida to high uortheru regions, and from ocean to ocean. Tlie Smithsonian 

 Institution ])ossessos specimens fnuu Georgia, Selkirk Settlement, (California, 

 and Washington Territory. Mr. (.Jandud found them ([uite common in the 

 mountains in the interior of Califm'nia, in October, roving in comi)any with 

 busy docks of tlie Pnnis iiiojitmiKs. 



Dr. Coojier met with tluun aliundantly in Washington Territory, where 

 they ju'eferred the oaks aiul oilier deciduous trees, and never freiiueiited the 

 interior of tlie dense forest. He fibserved this bird and the Slender-billed 

 Xuthatch, along the 4'.lth parallel, cast of the Cascade ^loimtain.s, as late as 

 the middle of Octoljer. Dr. Siukley also met both biids west of the same 

 mountains. 



Tliis Xutliatch was olwerved by Mr. K'idgway among the as])en groves bor- 

 dering the stivaiiis that flow from the Ka.st Ilumlioldl Mouiiliiins. In tiiat 

 locality it was coiiimo!i througli the month of September, though not abun- 

 dant. It was again seen in .Itiiie among the pine-woods of the Wahsatch 

 Mountains, but it was not iniiiiiKm. 



'Wiiile a f(^w of lliese birds are reside ' of tlie Northern States, they aru, 

 to a consideralile extent, of migratory ha -s. Wilson ob.served them leaving 

 in large numliers for the Southern States in October, and returning again in 

 April. On tlie L'dth of '..lay, ISli?, the writer observed a small fI<K'k in 

 Eastern ^liis.saclinsetts, evidently just arrived from the South. They were 

 apparently fatigued and hungry, and paid no attention to the near presence 



