NM ee EA CE 
Genus XXV. NUTHATCH. 
N° 1. Carolina N. 
2. Leaft N. 
3. Orange-winged N. 
Sitta Carolinenfis, Ind. Orn. i, p. 262. 3. 
Grey black-capped Nuthatch, Bartr. Trav. p. 287. 
N a manufcript of the late Mr. Hutchins, relating to the birds and 
quadrupeds of Hudjon’s Bay, 1 find one defcribed, which feems to 
be clearly this: the length is five inches; weight two drams troy; 
breadth feven inches and an half: bill black ; head, throat, and breaft 
glofty black: belly mottled with black, orange, and white: back dun 
black, with faint orange ftreaks: near the junction of the wings, are 
long feathers of a bright orange, not unlike a fhoulder-knot, which 
pafs down on the fides and end on the thighs, where they are pale: 
lefler wing coverts black; the greater are brown, tinged with red: 
quills brown ; vent white : the two middle tail feathers are brown, the 
two next with an orange fpot on the outer web; the other fix are 
orange tipped with brown: legs black. 
Inhabits Hudjon’s Bay. 
Sitta Pufilla, Ind. Orx. i. p. 263. 5. 
Leaft Nuthatch, Gez. Syz ii. p. 651. C.—Id. Sup. p. 118. 
ROM the fame fource as the laft, I derive the following account 
of a {mall Nuthatch, weighing five penny-weichts, five inches long, 
and feven broad: the bill fhort, black, triangular, with fine hairs: 
Supp. IL. U irides 
T45 
1. 
CAROLINA 
N 
DeEscrirTION, 
PLace. 
2. 
LEAST 
N. 
DESCRIPTION. 
