. The birds of eastern North America : with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. , . the sides straight,the end broken into irregular ponits. Color. Adult , slaty blue. Top of head and neck to the shoulders,glossy black. Upper surface of wing and coverts, black ; withthe edges, tips, outer webs of upper tertiaries, and lines alongthe veins of the last, like the back : there is also a spot at thebase of the primaries, and on the inner webs of the spu
. The birds of eastern North America : with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. , . the sides straight,the end broken into irregular ponits. Color. Adult , slaty blue. Top of head and neck to the shoulders,glossy black. Upper surface of wing and coverts, black ; withthe edges, tips, outer webs of upper tertiaries, and lines alongthe veins of the last, like the back : there is also a spot at thebase of the primaries, and on the inner webs of the spuriousquills, and elongated spots on the middle of the outer webs ofthe second, third and fourth quills, white. The two central tailfeathers are like the back ; remainder, black, with the six outercrossed diagonally by a broad subterminally bar of white, whichextends up for a short distance on the outer web of the first twofeathers, and reaches the tip of the third on the inner web. Theblack of the tips is preceded on the outer webs by a small patchof slaty. The remaining feathers are tipped with white, precededby slaty. Lower parts, including sides of head, and sjiace for some distance above the eye, white, tinned. Fig. lO;). Head of adult White-bellied Nuthatch. 658 WHITE-BELLIED NUTILVTOH. with buff, with the flanks washed with chestnut. Tibiae, crissum and ventral region, rich clostnnt brown :the under tail coverts are also streaked with it. Wings and tail beneath, like the upper surface, but mureglaucous. Axillaries, like the back. Under wing coverts, black. Adult female, similar to the male, butwith the top of the head washed with slaty blue. Young, have the white of the tail feathers more restrictedand a deeper suffusion of buff beneath. Webs, brown ; feet, brown ; bill, black, blue at the base of the undermandible, in both sexes and in all stages. OBSERVATIONS. This species may be readily distinguished from all other native Nuthatches by its larger size and whiteunder pa
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