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.
