86 



KEVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



the tail 1.80 ; while in 6,T64 (%?), from El Paso, the wing is 2.15, 

 and the tail 2.25. The Cape St. Lucas specimens are brighter, and 

 the top of head just behind the forehead has the feathers strongly- 

 tinged with reddish-orange. 



Subfamily SITTING. 



SITTA, LinNMVs. 



Sitta, LiNN.s;i7S, Syst. Nat. 1735 and 1758, 115. (Type S. europaea.) — 

 Reiche^'bach, Handbuch, No. IX, 1853, 149. (Monograph of genus.) 



Sitta carolinensis. 



Sitta europaea, var. y, carolinensis, Gii. S. N. I, 1788, 440. 



Sitta carolinensis, L.vth. Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 262; also of all other Ame- 

 rican writers. — Reichenbach, Handbuch, Abt. II, 1853, 153, tab. 

 dxiii, figs. 3,563-4.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 374, pi. sxxiii, 

 fig. 4.— Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 106. 



Sitta melanocephala, Vieill. Gal. I, 1834, 171, pi. clxxi. 



Other figures : Wilson, Am. Orn. I, pi. ii, fig. 3. — Add. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 

 152.— Ib. B. a. IV, pi. 247. 



Hab. United States and the Provinces ; west to valley of the Missouri. 



(1,645.) 6.08; 10.89; 3 68. (1,761.) 6 00; 11.25; 3.75. (28,954.) 5.90; 11.10; 3.40. (29,252.) 

 5.80; 10.90; 3.50. (30,996.) 6.00; 11.00. 



Sitta aciileata. 



Sitta aculeata, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. VIII, Oct. 1856, 254.— Baikd, Birds 

 N. Am. 1858, 375, pi. xxxiii, fig. 3. 



