*4* N U T HA T C H. 



„'■.... Si « a Eufopsa, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 177. N° u—Scop. am. I. p. 50. N° 57.— 



NUTHATCH Kramer el. p. 362.— MuIIer, N° 102. p. 13. 



La Sittelle, ou le Torchepot, Buf. 0!/ v. p. 460. pi. 20. — Br!/, orn. iii. 

 p. 5S8. N° 1. pi. 29. f. 3.— PI. enl. 623. f. 1.— Raii Sjn. p. 47. A. 4. 

 Elau-fpecht, Fri/ch. t. 39, 

 Nutbreaker, Albin. ii. pi. 28. 

 Woodcracker, P/o/'j Ox/ordjh. p. 175. 



Nuthatch, or Nutjobber, #7//. era. p. 142. t. 23.— Br. Zool. i. N° 89. pi. 38. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



©es«juftion. '""I V HIS bird, as defcribed in the Briti/h Zoology, weighs near an 

 ounce, and is in length five inches and three quarters. The 

 bill is ftrong and ftrait, about three quarters of an inch long ; the 

 upper mandible black j the lower white : irides hazel : the crown 

 of the head, back, and wing coverts, are of a fine blueifh grey: 

 a black ftroke pafies over the eye from the mouth : the cheeks 

 and chin are white : the breaft and belly of a dull orange-colour : 

 quills dufky : the wings beneath marked with two fpots -, one 

 white, at the root of the exterior quills, the other black, at the 

 joint of the baftard wing : the tail confifts of twelve feathers ; the 

 two middle ones are grey ; the two exterior tipt with grey ; 

 then fucceeds a tranfverfe white fpot ; beneath that the reft is 

 black: legs pale yellow: claws large ■, the back one very ftrong. 

 Femali. The female is like the male, but lefs in fize j and weighs com- 



monly five, orat.moftfix, drams. 

 Manners- ^ ne e SS s are ^ lx or feven in number," of a dirty white, dotted 



with rufous; thefe are depofited in fome hole of a tree, frequently 

 one which has been deferted by a Woodpecker, on the rotten wood 

 mixed with a little mofs, &c. If the entrance be too large, the 



bird 



