BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



445 



AduHmaIe.—hen<yth (skins), 121-148.5 (182.S); wing, S-1-.5-91 (87.8); 

 tail, 44-48.5 (46); culnuMi, 18.5-20 (19.2); tarsus, 17-18.5 (18.1); mid- 

 dle toe, 14-15 (14.4).« 



Adult feNiale.-hcn<yth (skins), 128-130 (132.6); wing, 85.5-89(87); 

 tail, 44-47(45.5); culmen, 19.5-21 (19.8); tarsus, 18-19 (18.4); middle 

 toe, 14.5-15.5 (14.9).* 



Pacific coast district, from northern Lower (California to British 

 Columbia; east to eastern base of Sierra Nevada, middle Oregon, and 

 interior of British Columbia.'' 



Sittd airolinensis (not of Latham) Townsexd, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 

 1839, 155 (Columbia R.).— Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1846, 112, 

 part (California). — Heermaxn, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1852, 269 

 (California). — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves's Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 1853, 

 66, part (California). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, 1857, 79 

 (California; Oregon).— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mm., viii, 1883, 353, i)art 

 (California). 



S[itta'\ carolinen.vfi Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1847, 33, part (Cali- 

 fornia). 



Sitia aculeata Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, Oct., 1856, 254 (California; 

 coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 375, 

 part; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atl., pi. 33, fig. 3; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 278, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 86, part. —Heermaxn, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., X, pt. iv, 1859, 56 (California).— Xaxtus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California). — Cooper and Scckley, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 193 (Puget Sound, etc., Washington). — 

 Feilner, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst, for 1864 (1865), 425 (Fort Crook, 

 California; habits). — Brown, Ibis, 1868,421 (Vancouver I.). — Cooper, Am. 

 Nat., viii, 1874, 17 (Cuyamaca Mts. , San Diego Co., California); Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 54.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. LL, 1877, 112 (Camp Harney, e. 

 Oregon; descr. eggs). 



« Ten specimens. 



& Four specimens. 



c Specimens from these more eastern localities are in reality intermediate between 

 this smaller coast form and the larger S. c. nelsoid of the Rocky Mountain district, 

 though on the whole, except in measurements, rather nearer the former. Compara- 

 tive average measurements are as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Ten adult males from Californiii (west of Sierra Nevada) . . 87. 3 

 Six adult males from Carson City, Nevada (3), and Fort 



Klamath, Oregon (3) 89. 7 



Thirty adult males of .v. r. nrl.soni 91. 4 



Fouradult females from California ^ west of Sierra Nevada). 



Two adult females from Carson City, Nevada 



One adult female from Fort Klamath, Oregon 



One adult female from Okanogan, British Columbia 



Seven adult females of S. c. nclsoni 



87 

 90.9 



Middle 

 toe. 



14.8 

 14.5 



14.9 



15.7 



14.5 



15 



14.4 



