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_, 5-1/4, 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.