VAR.? 



SMALLER JAMAICA NUTHATCH, 



This is considered by most ornithologists as a 

 variety of the immediately preceding, from which 

 it is said to differ in size only. 



CANADA NUTHATCH. 



Sitta Canadensis. S, cinerea, subtus dilute ru/a, fascia superciliari . 

 Candida pone oculos nigricante, rectricibus lateralibus quatuor ex- 

 timis apice intus albis. Lath. ind. orn. 



Cinereous Nuthatch, pale rufous beneath, with white brows grow- 

 ing blackish behind the eyes, and the four exterior tail-feathers 

 white on their inner tips. 



Sitta Canadensis. S, superciliis albis, Lin. Syst. Nat. 



La Sittelle ou Torchepot du Canada. Buff. ois. PL Enl. 623. f. 2. 



Canada Nuthatch. Penn. Arct. Zool. Lath, syn. 



Size of the European species: bill blackish-, 

 crown of the head, hind part of the neck, and 

 shoulders black: back and rump light blue-grey: 

 over each eye a white line: cheeks white: larger 

 quill-feathers dusky, with grey edges: breast and 

 belly pure white : the two middle tail-feathers grey, 

 the rest black with a white spot at the tip: vent 

 ferruginous: legs brown. Native of Canada, and 

 extending as far south as New York. It is consi- 



