136 SYNONYMY OF SITTA CANADENSIS 



This is a rather scanty lining of an indiscriminate mass of soft 

 vegetable and animal substances. The eggs, to the number of 

 five or six, measure on an average about four-fifths of an inch 

 in length, and three-fifths in breadth. They are white, often 

 ■with a rosy or creamy hue, speckled and blotched with reddish- 

 brown and purplish or lavender shades, sometimes evenly and 

 thickly over the whole surface, oftener chiefly about the larger 

 end, where a wreath of the markings may be more or less per- 

 fectly formed. 



Red-bellied ]Vuthateh 



Sitta canadensis 



Sltta canadensis, L. SN. i. 1766, 177, no. 2 {Brits, iii. mi, no. 2, pi. 29, f. tj.—Bocld. Tabl. 

 PE. 1783, 38.— Gm. SN. i. 1788, 441, no. 2.— Lath. 10. i. 1790, 263, no. Q.—Tiirt. SN. i. 

 1806, 271.— Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 9e.—Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 5S3.—Aud. OB. ii. 1634, 

 24, pi. 105.— Ornith. Oomm. Journ. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 193 (Columbia River).— B;). 0. 

 * GL. 1838, IQ.—Peah. Rep. Om. MaBa. 1839, 339.— Toams. Journ. Phila. Acad. Tiii. 1839, 

 15i.—Aud. Syn. 1839, 167.— iVKB. Man. 2d ed. i. 1840, 697.— ^?irf. BA. iv. 1842, 179, pi. 

 248.— GaroJ. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1846, 112 (California).— Bp. CA. i. 1650, 227.— McCaH, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. v. 1851, 21.5 (Texas).— Caioe, Naum. ii. Hft. iii. 185-2, 66 (Lake Supe- 

 rior).— floy, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 381 (Wisconsin).— TAowps. Vermont, 1853, 95.— 

 Read, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 401 (Ohio).— Xemkic. Tr. IIlinoiB Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 

 mi.-Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. vii. 1855, 313 (New Mexico).— Pmim. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 

 214.— Kneel. Pr. Bost. Soc. vi. 1857, 2X3.— Bd. BNA. 1858, 319.— Willia, Smiths. Rep. for 

 1858, 1859. 283 (Nova Scotia).— i/crary, Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— 

 Coop. If Suck. NHWT. 1860, 193.— Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 437.— Bd. Ives's 

 Rep. Col. R. pt. vi. 1861, 6 (Port Yama).—Scl. CAB. 1861, 15.—Coues S( Prent. Smiths. 

 Kep. for 1861, 1862, i\l.—Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, lei.—Blak. Ibis, 1862, 

 5 (Saskatchewan).- Soarim. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 1862, 12S.— Verr. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 1862, 

 138 (Anticosti).— Ferr. I'r. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 149.— B/a.t. Ibis, v. 1863, S7.—Bd. RAB. 

 1864, S7.—Alkn, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864 69. —Feilner, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 4-26 

 (California).— Sci. Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1863, 311.— ilcllm. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, SS.—Ooues, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad, xviii. 1866, 79 (Arizona).— £awr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vlii. 1866, 283.— 

 Brown, Ibis, 2d. ser. iv. 1868, 421 (Vancouver).- Ooaes, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 279.— 

 Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 107 (South Carolina).— Ooop. Am. Nat. iii. 1669, 74.— 

 Allen, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, SSL-Tumb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 28 ; Phila. ed. 2'\.—Coop. B. Gal. i. 

 1870, Si.-Aibott, Am. Nat.iv. 1870, Sie.-Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 117.— S(ro. U. 

 S, Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, tei.-Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 35S.—Trippe, 

 Am. Nat. vi. 1872, i7.— Coues, Key, 1872, 83, f. 27.—Hcn»h. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 73 (Col- 

 orado, breeding).— Combs, BNW. 1874, 25.— B. B. 4- iJ. NAB. i. 1874,118, pi. 8, f. 7.— 

 Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, i3B.—Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 155.— Hensli. Zool. Expl. 

 _ W. 100 Merid. 1876, 174. 



Sltta raria, Bartr. Trav. Pla. Ist Am. ed. 1791, 289 

 bis.— *r««.AO. i. 1808, 40, pi. 2, f. 4.—Bp. ,7ouru. 

 Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 25, 275. 



Sltta Stulta, "VieiU." 



Sittelle dc Canada, " Buff- x. 209 " ; "v. 471 ". 



Torchepot du Canada, Buff. PE. 623, f. 2. 



Canada ^'nthatch, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, 281, no. 170 (in 



part; the description and figure are those of 5.- 

 Flo. 21. — Head of Canada Nuthatch. . x r .t o ■ i.von *« e-, .i 



caro.znenaw). — Lath.^yn.i. 1782, pt. 2, 6ol, no. 3. 



Nutbatch du Canada, Le Maine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 237. 



Canada Nuthatch, Rcd-bcllied Nuthatch, Vulg. 



Hab. — Wo oded portions of temiierate North America. 



