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NUTHATCH , in older See also:English NUTHACK, from its See also:habit of hacking or chipping nuts, which it cleverly fixes, as though in a See also:vice, in a chink or crevice of the bark of a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, and then hammers them with the point of its See also:bill till the See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell is broken. This See also:bird was See also:long thought to be the Sitta europaea of See also:Linnaeus; but that is now admitted to be the See also:northern See also:form, with the See also:lower parts See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, and its See also:buff-breasted representative in central, See also:southern and western See also:Europe, including See also:England, is known as Sitta caesia. It is not found in See also:Ireland, and in See also:Scotland its See also:appearance is merely accidental. Without being very plentiful anywhere, it is generally distributed in suitable localities throughout its range—those localities being such as afford it a sufficient See also:supply of See also:food, consisting during the greater See also:part of the See also:year of See also:insects, which it diligently seeks on the boles and larger limbs of old trees; but in autumn and See also:winter it feeds on nuts, See also:beech-See also:mast, the stones of See also:yew-berries and hard seeds. Being of a bold disposition, and the trees favouring its mode of See also:life often growing near houses, it will become on slight encouragement See also:familiar with men; and its neat attire of ash-See also:grey and warm buff, together with its sprightly gestures, render it an attractive visitor. It generally makes its See also:nest in a hollow See also:branch, plastering up the opening with See also:clay, leaving only a circular hole just large enough to afford entrance and exit; and the interior contains a See also:bed of dry leaves or the filmy flakes of the inner bark of a See also:fir or See also:cedar, on which the eggs are laid. In the See also:Levant occurs another See also:species, S. syriaca, with somewhat different habits, as it haunts rocks rather than trees; and four or five representatives of the See also:European arboreal species have their respective ranges from See also:Asia See also:Minor to the Himalayas and Northern See also:China. See also:North See also:America possesses nearly as many; but, curiously enough, the See also:geographical difference of coloration is just the See also:reverse of what it is in Europe—the species with a deep rufous See also:breast, S. canadensis, being that which has the most northern range, while the white-bellied S. carolinensis, with its western form, S. aculeata, inhabits more southern latitudes. The Ethiopian Region has as representative of the See also:group the Hypositta corallirostris of See also:Madagascar. Callisitta and Dendrophila are nearly allied genera, inhabiting the See also:Indian Region, and remarkable for their beautiful See also:blue plumage. Sittella, with four or five species, is found in See also:Australia and New See also:Guinea, whilst Daphnoesitta occurs in New Guinea. The nuthatches are placed in the Passerine See also:family Sittidae, intermediate between the Paridae and the Certhiidae. (A.
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