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_, 4-1/2, 8.
From Maryland to Nova Scotia. Common. One seen in Labrador. Columbia
River. Resident.
Red-bellied Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i.
p. 40.
Sitta canadensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 96.
Red-bellied Nuthatch, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 583.
Red-bellied Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii.
p. 24; v. v. p. 474.