70 NUTHATCH. 



and crooked at the end ; nostrils round ; head and back grey ; throat 

 and under parts of the body white; quills and tail brown, edged 

 with orange. 



Inhabits Jamaica, and feeds on worms, cimices, and such like. 



7— JAMAICA NUTHATCH. 



Sitta Janiaicensis, Ind.Orn.'i. 262. Lin.'x, 178. Gm.Lin.i. 441. JBris. iii. 594. 



Id. Svo. i. 476. Borowsk. ii. 140. 

 Sitta major capite nigro, Rail, 1S5. 

 Sittelle a huppe noire, Buf. v. 472. 



Loggerhead, Brown Jam. Alh. Sloan. Jam. ii. 300. t. 259. 1. 

 Jamaica Nuthatch, Gen. Stjn.n. 652. Shaw's Zool. viii. 115. 



SIZE of the Common Species; length five inches and a half. 

 Bill ten lines, and black; head larger; the crown black; upper 

 parts of the body cinereous, the under white ; quills blackish 

 with cinereous edges ; tail blackish, all the feathers except the two 

 middle ones, marked with transverse lines of white towards the end ; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits Jamaica and Guiana, and feeds on insects ; found both 

 in thickets and savannahs, and said to be so tame and foolish, as to 

 suffer any one to approach near enough to knock it down with a stick ; 

 hence the name Loggerhead. 



A smaller is also mentioned, which is probably a Variety. 



8— BLACK-CAPPED NUTHATCH. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill slender, three quarters 

 of an inch long, inclining a trifle upwards, colour bluish ; crown 

 and nape black ; over the eye a white streak, passing through the 



