NUTHATCH, 6 S3 



Le petit Torchepot, de la Jamaique, Brif. trn. iii. p. 596. N° 3. A. ., 



La petite Sittelle ahuppe noire, Buf. oif. v. p. 473. . Var. A. 



Leaft Loggerhead, Brown Jam. p. 475. 



TT differs in no wife from the laft, except in being lefs in fize. Description. 



Buffon thinks it very probable that it may be the young one of 

 the laft, not at full growth. It is likewife this gentleman's opinion, 

 that the whole of the above-mentioned birds are mere varieties of 

 each other ; but, the better to reconcile the other authors who 

 have defcribed them, we have thought right to a<ft with them 

 here as is done above. 



4. 



La grande Sittelle a bee crochu, Buf. oif. v. p. 475. 



Sitta, feu picus cinereus major, roftro curvo, Rail Syn. p. 186. p. 34. GREAT 



Another fort of Loggerhead, Sloan. Jam. p. 301. N° 19. N. 



^TT^HIS is the largeft of the genus : length {even inches and a Description; 



"^ half. Bill near three quarters of an inch : it is different 

 from the others, being thicken: in the middle, and crooked at the 

 end : the noftrils are round : the head and back grey : the throat 

 white : the under parts of the body whitifh : quills and tail brown, 

 with the edges orange. 



Inhabits Jamaica, and feeds on worms, cimices, and fuchlike-r Piace. 



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