PLS TE CXC 
SITTA EUROPAEA, 
EUROPEAN NU TH AT CH. 
P 3C.ae 
Bill compreffed, convex. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill ftrait, triangular. Tongue fhort, horny at the end. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
ALUN D 
SYNONYMS. 
Upper part of the Head, Back, and Wing coverts bluifh grey. 
A black ftroke through the Eye. Throat white. Breaft and Belly 
dull orange. ‘Tail black and white. 
Sitra Evrop#a: reCtricibus nigris: lateralibus quatuor infra 
apicem albis. Linn. Syft. Nat. I. 15. §5. 1%. 
edit. 10. 
Picus cinereus, feu Sitta. Gefner av. 711. | ’ 
Nuruatcn, or Nuryosser. Will. Orn. p. 142. te 23 
Raii Syn. Av. 47. 
Pen. Br. Zool. 1. N° 89. pl. 38. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 648. 1-—Suppl. 117. 
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