Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



727. White- breasted Nuthatch {Sitia caroUtunsis), 

 L. 6. Ad. (^. Crown and foreback Muisb black; 

 sides of head and neck grayish white; tertials with 

 diitinci black marks rounded at end. Ad, 9- Similar 



but black of head and shoulders washed with ^ray. 

 Notes. Call, a nasal yank-yank and conversational 

 notes; song, a tenor, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, all on the same 

 note. 



Range. — Eastern North AmerEca west to the Rocky Mountains, 

 breeds from ttie Gulf States to Minnesota and New Brunswick; resi- 

 dent, 



727a. Slender-billed Nuthatch (5. c. acuUata], 

 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; lireeds from 

 Lower California nortn to Brliisli Columbi. ; resldeni. 



727b. Florida White-breasled Nuthatch {S. c. 



aibimi). Similar to No, 727, but somewhat smaller, 

 wing-coverts and tertials not tipped with grayish; ? 

 with head black as in <^, 

 Range. — Horida and north along the coast to South Carolina. 



727c. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch (5. c, nehom). 

 Similar to No. 727a, but larger, W. 3.7, with some- 

 what more white in tail and more rusty on flanks and 

 lower belly. 



Range.— Wooded mountains of northern Chihuahua and Sonora, 

 Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and norlh'vard, (Meams.) 



727d. St. Lucas Nuthatch {.S. c. lagunai). Simi- 

 lar to No, 727a, but with the wings ana tail shorter, 

 llie black tips of the outer tail-featiiers more restricted; 

 W. 3.2; T. 1.7. (Brewster.) 



Range, — Higher mountains south of La Paz, Lower California. 

 (Brewster.) 



728. Fled-breasted Nuthatch {Sitta canadensis]. 

 L. 4.6. Ad. <f, A stripe through the eye and crown 

 bl,ick; lineowr eye white; undcrparts rusty. Ad. ?. 

 Similar, but crown gray like back, line through the 

 eye blackish, paler helnw. Notes. A fine, thin, nasal, 

 p^nny-trumpet like, drn.v.'ledjma-t'na. 



Rane*. — North America, bfetJing from the norlhem portions rf the 

 northern tier of States northward, and southward In tiie Alieghanies 

 to Virginia, In the Rocky Mountain J lo Colorado, and in the Sierra 

 Nevada in Caiitomla; winCerc Irregularly southward to the Gulf 

 SlalfS and Arizons, 



729. Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla.) L. 

 4-j, Ads, Crown brown; a white patch on nape; 

 back bluish gray; below grayish white, sometimes 

 tinged with buff. Yn^. Crown whitish, NoUs. A 

 conversational, twittering tnee-tm^e. 



Range.— South Atlantic and Gulf Slates north toDeiawre, accident- 

 ally to New York and casually to Missouri. 



730. Pygmy Nuthatch {Sttta pygmtEo). L. 4.3. 

 Ads. Crown grayish olive; a whitish patrh on nape: 

 ad.irkbrown line through eye; below white tinged 

 with buff, yngt Crown gray like back. Notes. A 

 metallic, clinking clittick, dittick, 



Range.— Western North America, eas to the Roclty Mountains; 

 breeds from Mexico to Brltlsti Columbia, 



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