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Sitta pygmaea pygmaea Vigors. Pygmy Nuthatch. [730.] 



Sitta pygmxa Vigors, in Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 25 (pi. 4, fig. 2). 

 (Monterey [California].) 



Range. — Transition Zone of the coast region of California from San Louis 

 Obispo County north to Mendocino County. 



Sitta pygmaea melanotis van Rossem. Black-eared Nuthatch. [7305.] 



Sitta -pygmaea melanotis van Rossem, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XLII, No. 

 20, June 25, 1929, 176. (Chiricahua Moimtains, Cochise County, 

 Arizona.) 



Range. — ^Rocky Moimtain region from southern British Columbia, northern 

 Idaho, and eastern Washington to the Mexican boundary and the Sierra 

 Nevada of California, south to the San Bernardino Moimtains. Casual in 

 South Dakota and Nebraska. 



Sitta pygmaea leuconucha Anthony. White-naped Nuthatch. [730a.] 



Sitta pygmsea leuconucha Anthony, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, II, 

 sig. 6, Oct. 11, 1889, 77. (San Pedro [Mdrtir] Mountain, Lower Cali- 

 fornia.) 



Range. — -Transition Zone from Riverside and San Diego counties, Cali- 

 fornia, south to the Sierra San Pedro Mdrtir, Lower California. 



Family CERTHIIDAE. Creepers. 

 Subfamily CERTHIINAE. Typical Creepers. 



Genus CERTHIA Linnaeus. 



Certhia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 118. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Certhia familiaris Linnaeus (Selby, 1825). 



Certhia familiaris americana Bonaparte. Brown Creeper. [726.] 



Certhia Americana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 11. New 

 name for Certhia familiaris Audubon, [Birds Amer., folio, pi. 419]. 

 (Western [ = eastern] and northern parts of North America.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Canadian and Transition zones from southern 

 Manitoba, central Ontario, and southern Quebec south to eastern Nebraska, 

 northern Indiana, New York, and Massachusetts and along the Alleghanies to 

 North Carolina, casually also in southeastern Missouri. Winters over a large 

 part of its breeding range and south to central Texas, southern Alabama, and 

 southern Florida. 



