order passeriformes. 237 



Family SITTIDAE. Nuthatches. 

 Subfamily SITTINAE. Typical Nuthatches. 



Genus SITTA Linnaeus. 



Sitta Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 115. Type, by monotypy, 

 Sitta europsea Linnaeus. 



Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Latham. White-breasted Nuthatch. [727.] 



Sitta carolinensis Latham, Index Orn., I, 1790, 262. (in America, 

 Jamaica = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian, Transition, and Upper Austral zones from 

 southern Manitoba, northern Minnesota, central Ontario, and southern Quebec 

 south to northern Texas, central Illinois, and South Carolina. Casual in north- 

 eastern Manitoba. 



Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scott. Florida Nuthatch. [7276.] 



Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scott, Auk, VII, No. 2, April, 1890, 118. (Tar- 

 pon Springs, Florida.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lower Austral Zone of Georgia and Florida and 

 along the Gulf coast, north in the Mississippi Valley to Kentucky, southern 

 Illinois, and southeastern Missouri. 



Sitta carolinensis nelsoni Mearns. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch. [727c.] 



Sitta carolinensis nelsoni Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, No. 

 1274, June 2, 1902, 923. (Huachuca Mountains, Arizona.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Transition Zone from southern Alberta 

 south to Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila, and from the eastern base of the 

 Cascades and northern Sierra Nevada eastward across the Rocky Mountains. 



Sitta carolinensis aculeata Cassin. Slender-billed Nuthatch. [727a.] 



Sitta aculeata Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VIII, No. 5, Sept.- 

 Oct., 1856 [April 25, 1857], 254. (Cahfornia.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Transition and Upper Austral zones from 

 southern British Columbia to northern Lower California and from the Pacific 

 coast east to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. 



