238 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



Sitta carolinensis tenuissima Grinnell. Inyo Nuthatch. [727e.] 



Sitta carolinensis tenuissima Grinnell, Condor, XX, No. 2, March 20, 

 1918, 88. (Hanaupah Canyon, Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, 

 California, 8700 feet.) 

 Range. — Panamint and White mountains of Cahfornia. 



Sitta carolinensis alexandrae Grinnell. San Pedro Nuthatch. [727/.] 



Sitta carolinensis alexandrae Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., XXI, No. 

 15, March 9, 1926, 405. (Near Arroyo La Encantada, 3 miles north of 

 La Grulla, Sierra San Pedro Mdrtir, Lower California, Mexico, 7200 

 ft. alt.) 



Range. — Pine belt of the Sierra San Pedro Mdrtir, Lower California. 



Sitta carolinensis lagunae Brewster. San Lucas Nuthatch. [727d.] 



Sitta carolinensis lagunse Brewster, Auk, VIII, No. 2, April, 1891 

 (separates publ. Feb. 17), 149. (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California.) 



Range. — Breeds in the LTpper Austral Zone of the Cape district of Lower 

 California. 



Sitta canadensis Linnaeus. Red-breasted Nuthatch. [728.] 



Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 177. Based on Le 

 Torchepot de Canada, Sitta Canadensis Brisson, Orn., Ill, 593. (in Canada.) 



Range.— Breeds in the Canadian Zone from the upper Yukon Valley, 

 southern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, southern Quebec, and Newfoundland 

 south to northern Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, mountains of New York 

 (Long Island, casually), and Indiana (casually) ; south in the Sierra Nevada and 

 Rocky Mountains to California, Arizona, and New Mexico, and in the Allegha- 

 nies to North Carolina; also on Guadalupe Island, Lower California. Winters 

 from southern Canada south to southern California, New Mexico, Ai-izona, the 

 Gulf coast, and northern Florida; migrates, periodically and irregularly south- 

 ward in autumn, but never common in spring. 



Sitta pusilla pusilla Latham. Brown-headed Nuthatch. [729.] 



Sitta pusilla Latham, Index Orn., I, 1790, 263. (Carolina, Jamaica 

 = South Carolina.) 

 Range. — Lower Austral Zone from eastern Arkansas, southern Missouri, and 

 southern Delaware south to the Gulf coast and eastern Texas. Casual in 

 Ohio, New York, and the Bahamas. 



Sitta pusilla caniceps Bangs. Gray-headed Nuthatch. [729a.] 



Sitta pusilla caniceps Bangs, Auk, XV, No. 2, April, 1898, 180. (Clear- 

 water, Florida.) 

 Range. — Peninsula of Florida. 



