. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . PYGMY NUTHATCH NUTHATCHES AND TITS 455 you look up and think, What an alert, bright bird, but when thefluffy, bob-tailed little pygmies come trooping in and alight upsidedown against the tips of the pine branches, talking in soft littleliquid notes, you feel like exclaiming, Oh, you winsome little mites,how jolly it is to see you again ! A pair feeding nearly grown young were discovered by Mr. Baileyin the Sierra Nevada toward the last of July. Their small nest
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . PYGMY NUTHATCH NUTHATCHES AND TITS 455 you look up and think, What an alert, bright bird, but when thefluffy, bob-tailed little pygmies come trooping in and alight upsidedown against the tips of the pine branches, talking in soft littleliquid notes, you feel like exclaiming, Oh, you winsome little mites,how jolly it is to see you again ! A pair feeding nearly grown young were discovered by Mr. Baileyin the Sierra Nevada toward the last of July. Their small nest holewas widened from a crack in the hard shell of a half decayed pine,where the digging was probably easy. GENUS PAKUS. General Characters. — Bill much shorter than head, curved; wings andtail about equal and rounded; plumage loose. KEY TO SPECIES. 1. Head crested. 2. Throat black -woUweberi, p. 457- 2. Throat not black. 3. Crest black or brown, contrasting with gray of back. atricristatus, p. Crest gray like back. 4. Upper parts dark brownish or olive gray. Pacific coast region of California and Oregon inornatus, p. 4
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