. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 1 82 SITTID^, NUTHATCHES. GEN. 15, 16. olive gray ; paler (whitish, etc.) below. Both species are western; these and yiuripanis flavice2}s build the curious pensile nests above mentioned. \.^\ â Least Titmouse. Crown dark brown, unlike back. Pacific coast to ''*' Sierra Nevada. Aud., ii, 160, pi. 130; Bd., 397; Coop., 48. minimus. f, .. Leaden
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 1 82 SITTID^, NUTHATCHES. GEN. 15, 16. olive gray ; paler (whitish, etc.) below. Both species are western; these and yiuripanis flavice2}s build the curious pensile nests above mentioned. \.^\ â Least Titmouse. Crown dark brown, unlike back. Pacific coast to ''*' Sierra Nevada. Aud., ii, 160, pi. 130; Bd., 397; Coop., 48. minimus. f, .. Leaden Titmouse. Crown like back. Iris brown or yellow. Arizona. Bd.,398; Coop., 49 plumbeus. 15. Genus AURIPAETJS Baird. %â ! Yellovj-Jieaded Titmouse. Ashy ; paler below ; head all yellow (this color wanting in the young) ; bend of wing chestnut; 4^-; wing and tail about 2^. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, South and Lower California. Ed., 400, and Rev., 85; Coop., 51 flaviceps. Family SITTID^, Nuthatclies. These birds differ in so many respects from either Certhiidce or ParWoe, with both of which they have been associated, that I shall give them independent family rank. Chars. â Bill subcjdindrical, tapering, compressed, slender, acute, nearly or about as long as the head, eulmen and commissure about straight, gonj^s long, convex, ascending (giving a sort of recurved look to a really straight bill). Nostrils rounded, concealed by bristly tufts. Wings long, pointed, with 10 primaries, the 1st very short or spurious ; tail much shorter than wings, broad, soft, nearly even; tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw, scutellate in front; toes all long, with large, much curved, compressed claws ; 1st toe and claw about equal to the 3d ; 2d and 4th toes, very unequal in length ; plumage compact; body flattened ; tongue hornjr, acute, barbed. Nuthatches are amongst the most nimble and adroit of creepers ; they scramble about and hang in every conceivable attitude, head downwards as often
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