. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. NUTHATCH. 27 chinkopins, and hazel-nuts, they may, probably, be able to demolish, though I have never yet seen tliem so engaged but it must be raE m search of maggots tliat sometimes breed^there, than for the kS?eT It IS, however, said, that tliey lay up a large store of nute for wiX ⢠but, as I have never either found^ny of ma^zines, ^r seen' them collecting them, I am incline
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. NUTHATCH. 27 chinkopins, and hazel-nuts, they may, probably, be able to demolish, though I have never yet seen tliem so engaged but it must be raE m search of maggots tliat sometimes breed^there, than for the kS?eT It IS, however, said, that tliey lay up a large store of nute for wiX ⢠but, as I have never either found^ny of ma^zines, ^r seen' them collecting them, I am inclined to doubt the Set From the great numbers! have opened at all seasons of the yearri have ^ei? reason to bohevo that ants, bugs, small seeds, insecte, and E lSv2^ form their chief subsistence, such matters alone beinc; uniformlv S n tlieir stomachs. Neither can I see what necessity" they could have to circumambulate the trunks of trees with such indefLSle and Sb''\s if^'' "^'"'^ ^"''''^' "*â ""^ '^y scattered rotund tl^t roots. As to the circumstance, mentioned by Dr. Plott, of the Euro pean Nutliatch "putting its bill into a crack in the bough of a tree i:nd making such a violent sound, as if it was rending asfinder," Ss' f true, would be sufficient to distinguish it from the ipecies we liaie been just describing, which possesse^s no such faculty.* The female differs httie trom the mnle in color, chiefly in the black beinHess deep on the head and wings. ". RED-BELLIED, BLACK-CAPPED NUTHATCH - SITTA VARIA. âFio - Sitta varia, Bar^ p. Canadensis. _ Sm«, /.«/, Silla Canadensis, Bonap. Synop. p. 96. / uJ t t''- '? '""';'' ^'"?"" *^^" *« I'l^t' measuringronly four inches bill, tongue, nostn s, and in the color of the back and tail-feathers it e^xac^ly agrees with the former; the secondaries are not elieved wiU «ie deep black of the other species ; and the legs,
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