Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White. 
727. White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis). 
L. 6. Ad. §&. Crown and foreback dluish black; 
sides of head and neck grayish white; tertials with 
distinct black marks rounded atend. Ad. 9. Similar 
but black of head and shoulders washed with gray. 
Notes. Call, a nasal yank-vank and conversational 
notes; song, a tenor, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ba, all on the same 
note. 
Range.—Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains, 
breeds from the Gulf States to Minnesota and New Brunswick; resi- 
dent. 
727a. Slender-billed Nuthatch (S. c. aculeata). 
Similar to No. 727, but head usually greenish black; 
black of tertials less deep and on next to inner one 
usually pointed at end. 
Range.— Western North America west of the Rockies: breeds from 
Lower California north to British Columbia: resident. 
727b. Florida White-breasted Nuthatch (S. c. 
athinst). Similar to No. 727, but somewhat smaller, 
wing-coverts and tertials not tipped with grayish; 
with head black as in gj’. 
Range.—Florida and north along the coast to South Carolina. 
727c. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch (S. c. melsont). 
Similar to No. 727a, but larger, W. 3.7, with some- 
what more white in tailand more rusty on flanks and 
lower belly. 
Range.—Wooded mountains of northern Chihuahua and Sonora, 
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and northward. (Mearns.) 
727d. St. Lucas Nuthatch (S. c. Jagune).  Simi- 
lar to No. 727a, but with the wings vad tail shorter, 
the black tips of the outer tail-feathers more restricted; 
W. 3.2; T. 1.7. (Brewster.) 
Range.—Higher mountains south of La Paz, Lower California. 
(Brewster.) 
28. Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis). 
L. 4.6. Ad. fg. A stripe through the eye and crown 
black; line over eye white; underparts rusty. Ad. ©. 
Similar, but crown gray like back, line through the 
eye blackish, paler below. Notes. A fine, thin, nasal, 4 
penny-trumpet like, drawled yua-yna. x 
Range.—North America, breeding from the northern portions of the “ae 
northern tier of States northward, and southward in the Alleghanies ¥ 
to Virginia, in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, and in the Sierra = 
Nevada in California; winters irregularly southward to the Gulf | 
States and Arizona. 
729. Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla.) L. he 
4-3. Ads. Crown brown; a white patch on nape; ; 
back bluish gray; below grayish white, sometimes | 
tinged with buff. Yug. Crown whitish. Notes. A 
conversational, twittering tnee-tnee. 
Range.—South Atlantic and Gulf States north to Virginia, accident- 
ally to New York and casually to Missouri. 
730. Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygm@a). L. 4.3- 
Ads. Crown grayish olive; a onhele patch on nape; 
a dark brown line through eye; below white tinged 
with buff. Yxg. Crown gray like back. Notes. A 
metallic, clinking clittich, chittick. 
Range.—Western North America, east to the Rocky Mountains; 
breeds from Mexico to British Columbia. 
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