PL a Tee 
NurTBREAKER. Albin. 2. pl. 28. 
Wooncracker. Plot’s Oxfardfh. p. Lys: 
Le grand Grimpereau, le Torchepot. Bélon. av. 304. 
La Sittelle, ou le Torchepot. Buff: Oif. 5. p. 460. pl. 20. 
SSP) Lig 089. Ff. 1. 
Brif. Orn. 3. p. 588. No. 1. pl. 29. 
Fo 3s 

Blau fpecht. Frifch. t. 39. 
Picchio grigio, Raparino. Zinan. 74. 
Klener, Nuffzhacker.. Kram. 362. 
Barlefs. Scopali, No. 57. 
Notwacka, Notpacka, Faun. Suec. fp. 104. 
Ziolo. Aldr. av. 1. 417. 

The Nuthatch is a fmall bird: it weighs about one ounce, and 
is five inches and three quarters in length. “The female differs 
from the male only in fize; the weight feldom exceeding five or 
fix drams. 
Tt breeds in the hollows of trees, and lays fix or feven eggs, of 
a dirty white colour, dotted with rufous ; thefe are depofited on the 
rotten wood, mixed with a little mofs. If the entrance to the neft 
is too large, it clofes up part of it with clay, leaving only a very 
fmall hole to creep through. “The neft of this bird is feldom dif- 
turbed, or the eggs taken away, when the female is fitting, for her 
hiffing fo nearly refembles that of a fnake, that few would venture 
to put their hands into the hole to fearch for them; and it is faid, 
that the female will fuffer her feathers to be plucked off rather than 
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