74 NUTHATCH. 



nostrils a narrow black streak, which growing wider, encircles the 

 eye, after which it increases in breadth, becomes irregular, and passes 

 down on each side to the wing ; all the under parts, from chin to 

 vent, pale reddish white ; the quills reach three-fourths on the tail, 

 both of which are like the back in colour ; legs bluish green ; claws 

 black, very strong, and hooked. 



In some birds, supposed to differ in sex, there is a trace of white 

 over the eye, above the black ; the chin and throat are also white. 



Inhabits India. One of these, in Sir John Anstruther's drawings, 

 was named Culfurna. I observe them, too, among the drawings of 

 General Hardwicke. 



15— FRONTAL NUTHATCH. 



Sitta frontalis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. tG2.— Horsfield. 



LENGTH five inches. Above sky-blue, beneath testaceo-vina- 

 ceous ; forehead, and streak over the eyes, deep black ; quills black. 



Inhabits Java, and most probably India, as I met with a similar 

 one in some drawings from thence; in this the bill and legs are 

 brown-black ; under parts of the body purplish crimson ; between 

 the two a line of black, beginning at the gape, and passing through 

 the eye to the shoulders ; on each side of the throat, beneath the eye, 

 a long patch of white. These two seem most probably allied, and 

 may differ from each other in sex — not without suspicion of their 

 being related to the Indian Species, last described. 



16— FERRUGINOUS-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill black, base 

 pale ; through the eye a black streak, growing very broad behind, 



