76 NUTHATCH. 



on the crown of the head deepening into brown, with a few pale mot- 

 tlings on the sides under the eyes ; chin dull buff-colour ; beneath 

 from the breast brown, marked on the latter with streaks of dusky 

 white ; quills as the back ; tail two inches and a half long, cuneiform, 

 the outer feather only one inch and a quarter, all of them very stiff, 

 and the shafts extend some way from the ends ; colour bright rufous 

 cinnamon ; legs brown. 



In the collection of Mr. Bullock ; supposed to inhabit Africa. 



19.— GREEN NUTHATCH. 



Sitta Chloris, Ind.Orn.i. 264. Mus. Carls, fase.'n. t.33. 

 Gobe-mouche, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxii. 

 Green Nuthatch, Shaw's Zool. viii. 120. 



THE length of this bird is about three inches. Bill longer than 

 the head, strait, and dusky; head, hind part of the neck, back, 

 and shoulders green ; throat, breast, and belly white ; quills brown, 

 the outer margins greenish, but near the base yellowish, producing 

 a transverse band of that colour ; lesser wing coverts greenish brown ; 

 the lower, and those next the bend of the wing, white ; the rump 

 yellowish ; tail short, black, all the feathers tipped with yellowish 

 white; the wings reach to about half the length ; legs long, dusky. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, particularly the Province of 

 Akter Brunties Hoogtens; met with there by Dr. Sparrman. M. 

 Temminck ranks it with his Gobe-mouches. As to ourselves, having 

 never met with a specimen, we have only to rely on Dr. Sparrman 

 for the Genus in which he has placed it. 



