ORDER PASSERES. 345 



fusty ; side tail feathers, black and white. North 

 America. 



Sitta Melanocephala. Gm. Catesb. 1. xxii. Vieil. 

 Gal. 171. 



Summit of head and neck, above, black ; body, above, 

 plumbeous ; beneath, white ; lateral tail feathers, 

 black and white. North America. 



Sitta Frontalis. Swain. Zool. 111. 2. or S. Velata. 

 Temm. Coll. 72? 3. or Orthorhyncus Frontalis. 

 Horsf. Java. 



Head, nape, and upper parts of body, rich azure; 

 wings and tail, less pure ; chin, white ; all rest be- 

 neath, light purplish ash. Sumatra and Java. 



Sitta Chrysoptera. Lath. 3. Suppl. 327- 



Ashen above ; croup, upper tail-coverts, and all 

 below, clear blue ; wings, orange at the edge. New 

 Holland. 



Sitta Pusilla. Lath. 



Top of the head and neck, brown; white band on 

 nape ; wings, blackish ; underneath, whitish. North 

 America.* 



The SiTTiNEs. (Xenops. Ileger.) 



Which differ only in having the bill a little more 

 compressed, of which the under ridge is more 

 curved. 



* To these are added — 

 Sitta Fttsca. Vieil. 

 Sitta Chloris. Sparman. 

 Sitta Caffra. Sparman- 



