78 NUTHATCH. 



21.— SENEGAL NUTHATCH. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill five-eighths of an inch, stout, dusky, 

 a trifle bent at the tip ; base of the under mandible white ; the whole 

 top of the head to the nape, and even with the eye dusky, streaked 

 with black ; chin, sides under the eye, and just before it, and as far 

 as the breast, white, with dusky streaks ; general colour of the body, 

 wings, and tail, greenish ash, paler beneath : wings darker, the 

 feathers with pale yellowish edges; tail much the same, a little 

 rounded at the end, the wings reaching just beyond the base ; thighs 

 long and slender; legs also slender, dark brown ; claws long and 

 hooked. 



Inhabits Senegal, — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. The 

 manners unknown ; has somewhat of the air of a Thrush. 



22 —NEW-HOLLAND NUTHATCH. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 bent downwards; general colour of the plumage above olive brown, 

 inclining to cinereous on the rump ; the feathers of the forehead 

 obsoletely margined with a paler colour; chin and throat white ; the 

 breast, and middle of the belly, dusky buff; feathers on the sides 

 margined all round with dusky, giving a spotted appearance ; first 

 quill very short, increasing to the fourth, which is longest; most of 

 the quills marked with a large pale oval spot, not far from the base ; 

 tail two inches and a half long, a little rounded ; the two middle 

 feathers wholly cinereous lead-colour ; the others the same, from the 

 base to the middle, but from thence to the end black, with the very 



