. 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. SlTTIDiE, NUTHATCHES. CEETHIIDiE, CREEPERS. GEN. IG. 83 restricted to nape, or altogether absent. Eastern United States to the Plains. WiLS., i, p. 40; Nutt., i, 581; Aud., iv, 175, pi. 247; Bd., 374 CAROLINENSIS. Var. ACULEATA. Slender-hilled Nuthatch. Exactly like the last, except slen- derer bill; not over 15-100 deep at base. Plains to Paci
. 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. SlTTIDiE, NUTHATCHES. CEETHIIDiE, CREEPERS. GEN. IG. 83 restricted to nape, or altogether absent. Eastern United States to the Plains. WiLS., i, p. 40; Nutt., i, 581; Aud., iv, 175, pi. 247; Bd., 374 CAROLINENSIS. Var. ACULEATA. Slender-hilled Nuthatch. Exactly like the last, except slen- derer bill; not over 15-100 deep at base. Plains to Pacific. Bd., 875 ; Coop., 54. ** Rusty brown below, nearly uniform; back bluer than in the last, head ivith white strij)es, crown black or like back; tail as in the last; wings plain; medium in size ; 4^ to nearly 5 ; wing 2§, tail H. gCj Red-bellied Nuthatch. ^ with crown glossy black, bordered by white ]('*> stripes meeting across forehead, below these a black bar through eye to hind nape, below this, and the chin, white. ? Avith croAvn like back, and the lateral black stripe merely dusky ; young with no black on the crown and lateral stripes obscure. North America, but rather northerly. WiLS., i, 40, pi. 2 ; Nutt., i, 583; Aud., iv, 179, pi. 248 ; Bd., 376 CANADENSIS. ***Pale rnsty or brownish white below; wings, ^.^^ ^^^ Eed-b^ued Nuthatch tail and back, much as in the last; crown and nape natural size. broivn to below ej-es, the lower border darker ; head without white stripes. Small- est; 4, or less, long; wing 2j, tail lA. Bvoion-headed Nuthatch. Crown clear hair-brown; a distinct little whitish spot on nape; middle tail feathers like back, with no black, and little or no white at base. South Atlantic States, strictly. WiLS., ii, 105, pi. 15; Nutt., i, 584; Aud., ii, 181, pi. 249; Bd., 377, . pusilla. Pygmy 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-edge
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