CANADA, AND BLACK-HEADED NUTHATCH, >8i 



Xn. NUTHATCH. Gen, Birds, XXIV. 



Nuthatch, Br. Zool. i. N° 89 ? — Latham, 1. 648. 651. 170. Canaba, 



Le Torchepot de Canada, Brijfon, iii. 592. 

 Sitta Europea Notwacka, Faun. Suec. N° 104. 

 La Sittelle, De BuJvti, v. ^60. — Lev. Mus. 



NWith the crowrij hind part of the neck, and Ihoulders, black: 

 . back and rump of a light blue grey : over each eye a white 

 line : claeeks white : primaries dufky, edged with grey : breaft and 

 belly of a pure white : two middle feathers of the tail grey ; the 

 others black, with a white fpot at the end : vent ruft-colored. Size 

 of the European ; of which it feems a mere variety. 



Inhabits Canada, and as far fouth as New Tork ; and extends to Place. 



the weftern lide of America, Kamtfchatka *, Sibiria, and Ruffia ; Swe- 

 den, and Sondmor f in Norway : and does not migrate. 



Nuthatch, Caujhy, i. 22, lower figure. — Latham, i. 650. B, ,-,, Black- 



Le Torchepot de la Caroline, ^r{^«, iii. 22. hbAded. 



■^ With the bill, head, and hind part of the neck, black : over 

 each eye is a white line : back of a fine grey : wings dufky, 

 edged with grey : breaft and belly, and vent feathers, red : two mid- 

 dle feathers of the tail grey ; the reft black, marked with a white 

 fpot. Lefs than the European. 



Inhabits the temperate parts of America. Place." 



• Among a fmall colleftion of drawings made in that country by one of our 

 voyagers. 



t Strom, 247. 



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