, /Se^^l 7->^<^^ Albinietic Plumagee. E.Deane. 



}t.\ 4. Sitta carolinensis. White-bellied Nuthatch. — In a com- 



1 muuication recently received from Mr. A. K. Fisher, he informs me of an 



' I albino specimen of this species, which is the first I have heard occurring 



J in the SiUidcE. It vras taken near Sing Sing, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1879. It was 



I pure white, except a narrow dark stripe on the crown. 



BuU, N.O.O, 5,Jan.,1880. P.27 



Peculiar Plumage of the Florida 

 Whlte-Bflled Nuthatch. 



'IMta Carolinmns.) 



V>Y C. J. Maynard. 

 Last autumn while in Florida I dis- 

 covered, much to my surprise, that the 

 female Nutbatcli of this species had a 

 perfectly black head. Quite a number 

 of specimens were secured and all, ex- 

 cepting one, which was slightly clouded 

 with ashy, had the head as pure black 

 as the males ; in fact there is no differ- 

 ence in the plumage of the two sexes, 

 excepting that there is a little less black 

 on the tertiaries of the females. From 

 typical Northern Nuthatches of this 

 species, Florida birds differ in being smaller 

 and in having a little less chestnut on the 

 flanks. Although I have never seen a female 

 from New England with perfectly black head, I 

 have seen the top of the head slightly slatey. 



hr^. i J\ro 7. ^ . 6~- ■ 



Sitta carolinensis. Two young females with the crown black and 

 almost as lustrous as in the male were taken in East Haven on Nov 17 

 1900, and Dec. 19, 1905. 



