Ill 



outer web of third feather pointed at end ; sides of neck 

 pure white; larger, wing about 3§ inches, bill longer, more 



slender Rocky Mountain Nuthatch. 



3. Crown black (male) or gray like back (female), with a black line 

 through eye and a white one over it ; under parts usually bright 



rusty; no spot on nape Red-bellied Nuthatch. 



3. Crown dull brownish (adult) or gray like back (young) changing to 

 ' blackish before and behind eye, but no white line over eye ; nape 

 with a poorly defined white spot Pygmy Nuthatch. 



727. *Sitta carolinensis Latham — White-bellied Nuthatch. 



Greater part of state, eastward; common resident and breeder. 

 Omaha, Lincoln, West Point, Blair, Tekamah, Ponca, Neligh, Long 

 Pine, etc. Breeds usually in April and May. 



727c. *Sitta carolinensis nelsoni Mearns — Rocky Mountain Nuthatch. 



Sioux county, common resident and breeder. Oberholser has veri- 

 fied this identification in regard to both winter specimens and breed- 

 ing birds. To this form refer all the previous valid Nebraska records 

 of aculeata. 



728. Sitta canadensis Linnaeus — Red-bellied Nuthatch. 



Whole state; uncommon winter resident, present from the middle 

 of October until the middle of May. There is much circumstantial 

 evidence to indicate the breeding of this bird in the state, but as yet 

 no definite record. Omaha, Dunbar, Lincoln, Dakota City, Neligh, 

 Long Pine, Sioux county. The earliest Lincoln record is October 

 26, 1903, (Swenk), the latest May 10, 1898 (J. S. Hunter). 



730. Sitta pygmaea Vigors — Pygmy Nuthatch. 



A fall and winter visitor in the pine clad region of northwest Ne- 

 braska. Aughey met with this bird once (1877), in the "timbered 

 bottoms and bluffs of the Niobrara river on the northern border of 

 the state." The Sioux county records for the ' ' Brown-headed Nut- 

 hatch," (see Bruner, Birds of Nebraska, p. 160), on Feb. 26, 1896 

 (L. Skow),and for the "Hudsonian Chickadee," on Dec. 13, 1895 

 (L. Bruner), were both misidentifications and should refer to this 

 species. The Omaha records for the ' ' Pygmy Nuthatch" (1. c. p. 160) 

 refer probably to immature examples of the Red-bellied. Ascends to 

 higher parts in March and not breeding in the state. 



Family PARIDjE— Titmice 



1. Head conspicuously crested; above ashy with black forehead, below 



dull white Tufted Titmouse. 



1. Head not crested; top of head and throat glossy black (2) 



2. Forehead and line over eye white; wings scarcely edged with 



white Mountain Chickadee. 



2. Forehead black, no line over eye; wings broadly white-edged. .(3) 



3. Colors darker, above olive-gray, wings and tail moderately edged with 



