. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 00 H H -<. â ^ CM a 3 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 317 Sitta pusilla Lath. Brown-headed Nuthatcli. Description. ^r at . a^ ^and terminal tmrc, of â,andU>.o , rest of lower man- mSryel invisl, (dried skins). «th about 4 inches or more ; TOP !,f head ind nape brown ; lores and streak back of eye -â ;;-;°'.'I -';;'â dârk,.r- a distinct white spot on hind neck ; edfje of wmK'and chin «h,te, under ;!ar';e;eralTy rrlyisb, orVale-bro
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 00 H H -<. â ^ CM a 3 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 317 Sitta pusilla Lath. Brown-headed Nuthatcli. Description. ^r at . a^ ^and terminal tmrc, of â,andU>.o , rest of lower man- mSryel invisl, (dried skins). «th about 4 inches or more ; TOP !,f head ind nape brown ; lores and streak back of eye -â ;;-;°'.'I -';;'â dârk,.r- a distinct white spot on hind neck ; edfje of wmK'and chin «h,te, under ;!ar';e;eralTy rrlyisb, orVale-brownish white. Tail is ,e»s varied than ^'":r:'tuth AulmiTrn: Gulf state, north, regularly, to lower Maryland and Virginia (lower Potomac, shore, of Chesapeake Bay, etc.), casually to Oluo, Michigan, Missouri (Pennsylvania?), ;-/f.((.'7««y- The Brown-headea Nutliatch, a southern bird, and one ^vhich is niuch smaller than either of the two previously mentioned species, I have never observed in Pennsylvania, where it is recorded as oecurnnK only as a cast^al or aecidental visitor. Dr. TurnbuU (Birds of East Pencil- vania) gives it as a rare straggler in summer to the sotvthern counties^ The late C. D. Wood, had a specimen in his which he stated had been captured near Philadelphia, in the autumn (about 188o). The stomach contents of twenty-three of these birds (lulults and young) caotured in Florida, during tlie winter and spring months, and examined b^the writer consisted exclusively of insects, chiefly beetles, larvie and ants. Subfamily PAKIN^. Titmice. THE TITMICE, .boulado^enspeeiesandseve^alsub.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ r;rdt;;iar::h^r, cotton, grasses ..do^^^^^^ .uiH in holes - '--;;3 â¢â¢ %:^ rnSes 1.:: wo:d';eckers. ex.^vato or speckled with "'>""-"-' â¢"'-^",. ,,,^.1^ young, but usually I Ihink these birds "-"T ':;r;o;rk:te ^f^ d to -nHommoJlly o^'ly dig new holes when they are
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