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N U T H A T C H .
whitifh j the reft of the under parts pale rufous : the noftrils are
covered with briftly feathers of a whitifh colour, and turned
forwards, as in the others of this genus -; from thefe pafles a ftripe
of white over the eyes: behind the eyes is another ftripe of a
blackifh colour : the greater wing coverts are brown, with cinereous
edges : quills the fame; all except the firft have the outer
edges cinereous, the inner whitifh : the two middle tail feathers,
are cinereous ; the next black, with the end cinereous ; and the
four outer ones black on each fide, the ends on the outfide cinereous,
and the infide white: legs and claws grey-brown.
It is found in Canada; and has the manners of the reft..
JAMAICA
N.
Sitta Jamaicenfis, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 178. N° 3.
Le Torchepot delà Jamaïque, Sri/, orn. p. 594. N° 3.
La Sittelle à huppe noire, Buf. oij. v. p. 472.
Sitta major capite nigro, Rais Syn. p. 185. N° 33.
Loggerhead, Brawn Jam. p. 475.
D escription. fiL O A N E fays, that it has a large head, and is about the fize of
our Nuthatch: length near five inches and a half. Bill ten.
lines long, and black : the crown of the head is black : upper
parts of the body cinereous; the under parts white: quills
blackifh, with cinereous edges: tail blackifh; all the feathers»
except the two middle ones, marked with tranfverfe line's of
white towards the ends : legs and claws black.
Places. Inhabits Jamaica and Guiana, and feeds on infects. It is found
both in thickets until favannas, and is fo- very tame and foolifh, as
to fuffer any one to approach it near enough to knock it on the.
head ; whence the name of Loggerhead, -
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Le petit Torchepot, de la Jamaïque, Briforn. iii. p. 596. N° 3. A.
La petite Sittelle à huppe noire, Buf. oif y. p. 473, V ar* A
Lead: Loggerhead, Brown Jam. p. 475..
J T differs in no wife, from the laft, except in being lefs in fize. D escription.
Buffon thinks it very probable that it may be the young one of
the laft, not at full growth. It is likewife this gentleman’s opinion,
that the whole of the above-mentioned birds are mere varieties of
each other; but, the better to reconcile the other authors who
have defcribed them, we have thought right to aft with them
here as is done above.
La grande Sittelle a bee crochu, Buf. oif. v. p. 474.
Sitta, feu picus cinereus major, roftro curvo. Rail Syn. p. i 85. p. 34. GREAT
Another fort o f Loggerhead, Sloan. Jam. p. 301. N° 19. N.
C jpH lS is the largeft of the genus : length feven inches and ai Description.
half. Bill near three quarters of an inch: it is different
from the others, being thickeft in the middle, and crooked at the
end : the noftrils are round : the head and back grey : the throat
white : the under parts of the body whitifh : quills and tail brown»
with the edges orange.
Inhabits Jamaica, and feeds on worms, cimices, and fuch like. P i * ce.
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