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NUTHATCH. 



LEAST NUT- 

 HATCH. 



Description. 



Nuthatch, Var. C. Gen. Syn. ii. p, 651. 

 Left Nuthatch, ^r<S.2W. ii. N° 17Z. 



^HE length of this mmme /pedes (for I find it to be diftinft) 

 is only three inches and a half. The bill blueifh ; the bafe 

 of the under mandible pale : the head moufe-colour : upper parts 

 of the body, and two middle tail feathers, cinereous j the others 

 dufky blacii : the under parts of the body dufky white. 



I met with feveral of the above at Mr. Humphries's, o^ Long' 

 Acre, who received them in a colledion from North America. 



lb. 

 CAPE N. 



Description. 



Place. 



1 1. 



LONG-BILLED 



N. 



Description. 



Place. 



Sitta cafFra, Spar. Mnf. Carlf. pL 4. ^ - 



T EN GTH nine inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, ftrait, 

 blueifh black ; the forehead, hind part of the neck, and back, 

 are brown and yellow mixed : fides of the head, neck, breaft, and 

 under parts, dufky yellow; the tips and margins of the quills the 

 fame : the tail feathers are ten in number ; above dufl<y black, 

 beneath olive, and the tips dufky yellow ; the two middle feathers 

 longer than the others : legs black : claws yellow. 

 lahdhxt^ tht Cape of Good Hope, 



EN GTH eight inches. Bill above an inch in length, and 

 black; the bafe pale, almoft white : from the mouth to the 

 eye a black line, and thence along the fides of the neck, which, 

 with the cheeks and forehead, are white : the crown, and whole of 

 the upper parts of the body, and wings, very light blue grey : tips 

 of the prime quills brown : belly pale tawny : legs pale brown. 

 Inhabits Batavia. Defcribed from the drawings of Lady Impey. 



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