BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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South-central Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Orizalm, Jalapa, Las 

 Vigas, etc.), Puebla (Mount Ori/aba), Oaxaca (Cerro San Felipe), 

 Guerrero (Chilpancingo), eTalisco (Florencio, Jacala, Talpa, etc.), 

 Zacatecas (Valparaiso, Plateado, Sierra Madre, etc.), Durango (El 

 Salto), southern Chihuahua" (Colonia Garcia, Sierra Madre, etc.), 

 and Coahuila (Sierra Guadalupe), and Territory of Tepic (Santa 

 Teresa). 



f^ilta carolinends (not of Latham) Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 293 



(Cordova, Vera Cruz) ; 1858, 300 (Cinco Senores, Oaxaca) ; 1859, 363 (Jalapa, 



Vera Cruz), 373 (Oaxaca; crit.); Cat. Am. Bird?, 1862, 15, excl. syn. part 



(Jalapa; Oaxaca); Ibis, 1865, 310, part (Jalapa; Oaxaca; crit.). — Oadow, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 353, part (Mexico). 

 {Sitta] caroUnensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr. , 1873, 5. 

 Sitta mrolinensis (vel aculeata) Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 544 



(alpine reg., Moyoapam and Popocatapetl) . 

 Sitta aculeata (not of Cassin) Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 86, part (Jalapa, 



Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Aves, i, 1880, 60, excl. 



syn. part. 

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



i, l'8f4, 117, part (Mexico) .—Co ues. Birds N. W., 1874, 230, part (in 



synonymy) . 

 Sitta caroUnensis aculeata (not of Ridgway, 1874) Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 



134, part (in synonymy). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 



1886, no. 727a, part. 

 *S'[i</(»] c{arolinensis'] aculeata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 271, part. 

 Slitta] caroUnensis aculeata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559, part. 



''Specimens from the localities named in Chihuahua compare in average measure- 

 ments with others as follows: 



As to coloration, the specimens fnun soutliern Cliihuahua are deci<ledly nearer 

 typical mex'icana thaii to nclfoni. 



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