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5— CANADA NUTHATCH 



Sitta Canadensis, Ind. Orn. i. 262. Lin. i. 127. Gm. Lin, i. 441. Bris. iii. 592. t. 29. 



f. 4. Id. 8vo. i. 475. 

 Sittelle, ou Torchepot du Canada, Buf. v. 471. PI. enl. 623. 2. Gerin. t. 193. 

 Red-bellied Black-capped Nuthatch, Amer. Orn. pi. 2. f. 4. 

 Canada Nuthatch, Ge?i. Syn. ii. 651. ^frc*. Zoo?, ii. No. 170. Bartr. 287. Shaw's 



Zool. viii. 116. 



LENGTH four inches and ten lines. Bill seven lines and a half 

 long, blackish ash ; upper parts of the body cinereous ; throat and 

 cheeks whitish, the rest beneath pale rufous; nostrils covered with 

 bristles ; from thence a stripe of white over each eye, and behind it 

 another blackish one ; greater wing coverts brown, edged cinereous ; 

 quills the same, except the first, and the inner edges whitish ; the 

 two middle tail feathers cinereous ; the next black, with the end 

 cinereous ; and the four outer ones black on each side ; the ends 

 cinereous on the outside, on the inner white ; legs grey brown. 



Inhabits Canada. Found chiefly in pairs, and frequently in 

 company with others : said to be fond of the seeds of pine, among 

 which trees it is found; has the usual manners, running up and 

 down the bodies of trees, like the Woodpecker, in search of insects. 



This is supposed by some, to be allied to the Least Nuthatch, of 

 which it is thought to be a young bird. 



6— GREAT NUTHATCH. 



Sitta major, Ind. Orn.i. 263. Gm. Lin.i. 442. Raii 186. 34. 



Grande Sittelle k bee crochu, Buf. v. 575. 



Another sort of Loggerhead, Sloan Jam. 301. 



Great Nuthatch, Gen. Syn. ii. 653. Shaw's Zool. viii. 113. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill almost three quarters 

 of an inch, and differs from the others in being thicker in the middle, 



