6 5 © NUTHATCH. 



I. Le petit Torchepot, Brif. crn. ii". p. 592. — Bih/i, Hijf. del oif. p. 305. 



Var. A. La petite Sittelle, Buf. oif. v. p. 470. 



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Description. |T is from Belon that we are furnifhed with an account of this 



bird -, no one befides feems to have feen it : he fays, it is in 



all things like the other, except in being much fmaller, but far 



more noify. It is feldom feen alone, being moftly in company 



with its mate, and is very quarrelfome ; for on meeting with 



another of its race it attacks it, nor ceafes to fight till its enemy 



yields the victory. 



'* tv Sitta Europasa, Lin. Syft. i. p. 177. N" 1. f?. 



Le Torchepot de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iii. p. 596. N" 4.. 

 La Sittelle a tete noire, Buf. oif. v. p. 473. var. 5. 

 Smaller Loggerhead, Broiun Jam. p. 475. 

 The Nuthatch, Catefi. Car. i, pi. 22. 



Description. /^ATESBT fays, that this bird weighs thirteen pennyweights 

 five grains : its length five inches and a quarter. Bill three 

 quarters of an inch, and black : top of the head, and neck, black* 

 the reft of the parts above cinereous : the under parts whitifh, 

 except the lower belly, and under tail coverts, which are rufous : 

 quills blackifh, edged with cinereous : the two middle tail feathers 

 cinereous ; the others fpotted with black and white : legs and 

 claws brown. 



The male and female are much alike. 

 Places. Thefe breed and remain the whole year in Carolina ; they arc 



alfo found in Jamaica* 



Sitta 



