332 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[6279, C 39 , R 52, C S9 .] 



HAB. North America at large, breeding mostly north of the United 

 States, migrating south in winter. 



729. Sitta pusilla LATH. 



Brown-headed Nuthatch. 



Sitta pusilla LATH. Ind. Orn. I. 1790, 263. 



[B 280, C 40, R 53, C 60.] 



HAB. South Atlantic and Gulf States ; casual (?) in Ohio, Michigan, 

 Missouri, etc. 



730. Sitta pygmaea VIG. 



Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Sitta pygmcea VIG. Zool. Beecliey's Voy. 1839, 25, pi. 4. 

 [B 281, C 41, R 54, C 6r.] 



HAB. Western United States, from New Mexico and Colorado to 

 Southern California and Washington Territory. 



O 



SUBFAMILY PARING. TITMICE. 



GENUS PARUS LINNAEUS. 



SUBGENUS LOPHOFHANES KAUP. 



Lophophancs KAUP, Entw. Gesch. Eur. Thienv. 1829, 92. Type, 

 Pants cristatics LIXN. 



731. Parus bicolor LINN. 



Tufted Titmouse. 



Parus bicolor LINN. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 340. 



[6285, C2 7 , R 3 6, C 4 o-] 



HAB. Eastern United States to the Plains, but rare towards the 

 northern border, being a straggler merely to Southern New England. 



732. Parus atricristatus C.\ss. 



Black-crested Titmouse. 



Parus atricristatus CASS. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1850, 103, pi. 2. 



