Red-bellied black-capt nuthatch. 203 
P'*rt of the head is black, hounded hy a stripe of 
passing round the frontlet ; a line of hlack passes 
j, •'oiioJi gye to the shoulder ; below this is another 
j**.® of white; the chin is white; the other under parts 
ij I'Sht rust colour, the primaries and whole wings a 
lead colour. The breast and belly of the female 
i, of so deep a brown, and the top of the head less 
'“®«sely bhu'k. 
Ids species is migratory, passing from the north, 
„ they breed, to the southern States, in October, 
.^returning in April. Its voice is sharper, and its 
‘’dons much quicker than those of the other, being so 
restless, and small, as to make it a difficult point 
« “liuot one of them. When the two sj)ecies are in 
n®. "oods together, they are easily distinguished by 
q voices, tile note of the least being nearly an octave 
l,''*‘'per than that of its comiiauion, and repeated more 
ij'*‘'icdly. In other respects their notes are alike 
^'‘j'Usical and monotonous. Approaching so near to 
Pm ‘’I'd®*’ di their colours and general habits, it is 
sj^.’jdile that their mode of building, &c. may be also 
(ij.^uffon’s Torchepot de la Cartada, Canada nuthatch 
a '’tiler European writers, is either a young bird of 
m-n . ; .,i „ j;c 
fill'" I’fssent species, in its imperfect plumage, or a dif- 
®"t sort, that rarely visits the United States, — 
ffob, 
'•thly the latter, as the tail and head ajipear of the 
bluish gray or lead colour as the back. The 
birds of this species, it may bo observed, have 
W '-'t’O'vn of >* lo’td colour during the first season ; 
old tail-feathers are marked nearly as those of the 
do Want of precision in the figures and dcscrip- 
of these authors makes it difficult to determine ; 
hi * think it very probable, that Sitta Jamaicensis 
Brisson, the Least Loggerhead of Brown, Sitta 
var. t. st. Linn., and Sitia Canadensis of 
bj ‘"Ous, (imelin, and Brisson, are names that have 
*pe r ‘’’’Sioffily applied to difFcient individuals of the 
rpje^s We are now describing, 
his bird is particularly fond of the seeds of piue 
