Plate CLII. Male and Female.
Upper part of head and hind neck deep black; back light greyish-blue; quills black, edged with light greyish-blue; middle tail-feathers of the same colour, the rest black, with a broad band of white near the end; sides of the head and lower parts white; lower tail-coverts with the inner webs brownish-red. Young without black on the head.
Male, 51/4, 11.
Common from Texas to Maine. Throughout the interior to the Columbia. Resident.
White-breasted American Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 10.
Sitta carolinensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 96.
White-breasted American Nuthatch, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 581.
White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 299; v. v. p. 473.
248. 2. Sitta Canadensis, Linn. Red-bellied Nuthatch.
Plate CV. Male and Female.
Upper parts of head and hind neck deep black; back light greyish-blue; quills brownish-black, edged with light greyish-blue; middle tail-feathers of the same colour, the rest black, the outer two with a white band near the end; lower parts yellowish-red. Female with the head paler.
Male, 41/2, 8.