. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. ;, NUTHATCHES. ;, CREEPERS. GEN. 1(5. 83 \. restricted to nape, or .altogether ahscnt. Plains. WiLS., 1, p. 40; NuTT., i, 581 374 United States to the AuD., iv, 175, pi. 247; IjD., CAROLIXEXSIS. Var. ACULEATA. Slender-billed Nuthatch. Exactly like the last, except slen- derer bill; not over deep .at base. Plains to
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. ;, NUTHATCHES. ;, CREEPERS. GEN. 1(5. 83 \. restricted to nape, or .altogether ahscnt. Plains. WiLS., 1, p. 40; NuTT., i, 581 374 United States to the AuD., iv, 175, pi. 247; IjD., CAROLIXEXSIS. Var. ACULEATA. Slender-billed Nuthatch. Exactly like the last, except slen- derer bill; not over deep .at base. Plains to Bn., 375 ; Coor., 51. ** Kusty brown belon-, nearly uniform; back bluer than in the last, head K\'th white stripca, crown black or like back; tail as in the last; wings plain; medium in size ; 44^ to nearly 5 ; wing 2'j, tail H. lied-beUled J^ntliatch. $ with crown glossy black, bordered by white stripes meeting across Ibrehead, below these a black bar through eye to hind nape, below this, and tlio chin, Avhitc. 9 with crown like back, and the lateral black st»'ipe merely dusky ; young with no black on the crown and lateral stripes obscure. North America, but rather northerly. Wils., i, 40, pi. 2 ; XuTT., i, 583 ; Aud., iv, 179, pi. 248 ; i â \, r"'! CANADENSIS. '** I'ale rustj^ or brownish white below; wings, tail and back, much as in the last; crown and ncipn lro2cn to bolow eyes, the lower border darker ; head without white stripes, est; 4, or I'^ss, long; wing 2^, tail IJ. Brown-headed N'utliatdi. Crown clear hair-brown; .a distinct little whitish spot on nape; middle tail leathers like back, with no black, and little or no white at base. Soutii Atlantic States, strictly. WiLS., ii, 105, pi. 15; XuTT., i, 584; Aud., ii, 181, pi. 249; Bd., 377, . tusilla. Pi/r/mi/ Nuthatch. Crown dull olive brown, its lateral borders blackish: the nuchal whitish spot wanting or obscure; middle tail feathers white at base, and there black-edged on outer web. This species is ap
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