446 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



Sitta carolinensis, var. aculeata Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 117, part, pi. 8, fig. 2.— Coues, Birds, N. W., 1874, 24, part. 



[Sitta carolinensis.} Var. aculeata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 83, part. 



Sitta carolinensis . . . var. aculeata Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 38«, part.— 

 Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 230 (Mount Whitney, Cali- 

 fornia). 



Sitta carolinensis aculeata Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 173 (Sierra 

 Nevada); vii, 1875, 12 (Carson City, Nevada); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 51a, part.— Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 134, part; Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 58, part.— Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 163 (Fort 

 Klamath, Oregon). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 727a.— Emerson, Bull. 7, Calif. Ac. Sci., 1887, 424 (San Diego County) . — 

 Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 246 (San Pedro Martir Mts.).— Fisher (A. K.), 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 136 (Sierra Nevada, Panamint Mts., etc., s. e. 

 California).— Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 49 (Los Angeles 

 Co., California, resident). 



S\itta'\ c[_arolinensis'] aculeata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 271, part.— 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 453, part. 



S\jttta'] caroUnemis aculeata Henshaav, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 289 

 (Sierra Nevada to Columbia R.).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559, 

 part.— Hellm AYR, Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 188, part. 



Sitta carolinensis . . . fi. aculeata Ridgway, Orn. Fortieth Parallel, 1877, 415, part 

 (Sierra Nevada). — Ridgway and Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 

 401 (Marysville, Stockton, and Calaveras Co., California). 



Sitta carolinensis, fi. aaileata Ridgw^ay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 65 (Cala- 

 veras Co., California). 



SITTA CAROLINENSIS LAGUN.ffi: Brewster. 

 ST. LUCAS NUTHATCH. 



Similar to S. c. aculeata but smaller, and with black tips to outer 

 rectrices averaging slightly, the white subtermiual area decidedly, 

 narrower. 



Adult male.— l^cngth (skins), 122-132 (125.3); wing, 84.5-88 (S6.7); 

 tail, 43.5-45.5 (44.5); culmen, 17.5-10.5 (18.5); tarsus, 16-18 (17); 

 middle toe, 12.5-14 (13.4). « 



Adult female.— 'Length (skins), 118.5-129 (123.4); wing, 79.5-86 

 (83.4); tail, 39.5-46 (44.1); culmen, 17-19.5 (1S.8); tarsus, 16-17 

 (16.5); middle toe, 12-13.5 (13). « 



Cape St. Lucas district of Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna; 

 Victoria Mountains). 



Sitta carolinensis actdeata . . . ? {not S. aculeata Cassin) Belding, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 347 (Victoria Mts., s. Lower California). 

 Sitta carolinensis aculeata American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 



no. 727a, part. 

 Slittal ciarolinensis'] aculeata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 271, part. 

 Slitta'} carolinensis aculeata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559, part. 



« Ten specimens. 



