BIRD:^ OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 453 



(Plymoutli Co., -Massachusetts; ])ree<ling?).— Stone, Auk, xiv, 1897, :?24 

 (nearLopi'z, Sullivan Co., IViinsylvania, lirceding). — Merrill (J. C), Auk, 

 XV, 1898, 20 (Fort Sherman, Idalio, breediufr).— Dearborn, Prelim. List 

 Birds Belknap and Merrimack counties, N. H., 1898, .']8 (breeding). — Rives, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, 137 (West Virginia, breeding in spruce belt). — Faxox and 

 Hoi-'FMAXX, Birds Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, 1900, 12 (breeding in spruce 

 belt of Saddle Mt. and Hoosac Mts.). — Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 10, 

 1900, 92 (Skagway, Log Cabin, and junction of Lewes and Pelly rivers, 

 Alaska).— CuAPMAX, Bull. Am. Mus. N. IL, iii, 1900, 153 (Westminster and 

 Ducks, British Columbia).— Farley, Auk, xviii, 1901, 198 (Medford, Massa- 

 chusetts; breeding?).— Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 128 (Echi- 

 mamish, Knee Lake, and bet. York Factory and Fort Churchill, Kee- 

 watin).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. V. S., 1902, 454. 



Slitta] canadensis Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1847, 33 (California). — 

 Nelsox, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 96, 153 (n. e. Illinois; rare summer 

 resident). — Hexshaw, Orn. Eep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 288 (both sides of 

 Sierra Nevada to Coluni1)ia R. ). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 

 271. — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559. — Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 

 Lief., 1903, 185. 



ISitta} canadensis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 83. 



Sitta varia Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 40, pi. 2, fig. 4 (ex Sitta varia, ventre rubro, 

 etc., Bartram, Travels, 1st Am. ed., p. 289 bis.). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 275. 



/^[(Vto] varia. Boxaparte, Journ. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 25. 



Sitta .ttidta Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxi, 1819, 332 (based on Sitta 

 varia Wilson, Am. Orn., pi. 2, fig. 4). 



(?) Sitta melanocephala (not of Yieillot, 1819) Lessox, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 316, 

 part (cites Sitta canadensis Gmelin ) . 



SITTA PUSILLA Latham. 

 BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH. 



Adults {sexes alike) in spring and summer. — Entire pilcum and 

 latenil portions of hindneck, together with loral and upper half of 

 auricular regions, plain light grayish brown (In'occoli brown or drab), 

 the tips of the feather sometimes considerabh' paler; median portion 

 of hindneck white, forming a conspicuous spot; back, scapulars; rump, 

 upper-tail coverts and lesser wing-coverts, uniform l)luisli gray or 

 plumbeous, the middle and greater wing-coverts, tertials, and middle 

 pair of rectrices similar but less bluish gray; secondaries and primaries 

 dull or brownish slate color, with pale gray edgings; tail (except middle 

 pair of retrices), black, the three outermost retrices broadly tipped with 

 gray, the two outermost crossed by a subterminal band (incomplete) 

 of white — both the tt^rminal gray and the subterminal wliite more 

 extensive on the lateral recti'ix; suborl)ital region, lower half of auri- 

 cular region, malar region, chin, and upper throat white; rest of 

 under pai'ts dnll white, usually more or less tinged with but!', passing 

 into light bluish grav on sides and flanks; maxilla slate-blackish; 



