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48 FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIKDS.

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from the Wrens chiefly in his long stiff tail, Avith pointed feathers, and in his Avoodpecker-like way of Upperparts feeding on insects in the bark of trees. mottled white, black, and buff reddish broAvn above the tail tail gray-brown underparts Avhite.





NUTHATCHES AND CtWCKADBES.

— Par idne.

—

Chickadees, straight and very short. medium Nuthatches, of lower bill length, the bent upward. First quill short in both Nuthatches and Chickadees.

Bill. Q:

are short-tailed, and hunt woodsingly and quietly on tree-trunks for The Chickadees are long-tailed, insects and grubs. and hunt over the branches of trees in loose flocks, always calling and hustling, never at rest.

The Nuthatches

pecker-like,

black

— Length, 6 inches.

back bluish gray



NUTHATCH.

WHITE-BREASTED

144.

Sitta carollnensis.

145.



Top

of

head

underparts white.

RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

— Length, 4| inches.

Top

Sitta

head and a throat and line above the line through the eye black underparts reddish back bluish gray eye white canadensis.

of







buff.

146. capillus.

gray



CHICKADEE TITMOUSE.

— Length,

SJ inches.

Farus

Head black

cheeks, breast, and belly white





atri-

back

sides Avashed

Avith buff.

HUDSONIAN CHICKADEE. cus.

Pants

— Like the common Chickadee, but a

little

hudsotii-

smaller,

and having the head brown and cheeks less Avhite, and the sides reddish. It is sometimes found in Avinter in company Avith the common Chickadee.