BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



46.5 



Aduh female.^'Lengih (.skins), 117-1:3:4 (l:4-t.l); wino-, t;0-t;7 0:2. If); 

 tail 55-65 (61.2); expo.sed culmen, 12-15 (12.}>); tarsus, 14.5-ir, (15); 

 middle toe, 10.5-11.5 (11.1); hind claw, T-9 (7.8). « 



Eastern \orth America; north to Grand ^NFenan, Ontario, Manito})a, 

 etc. (probabl}' to southern Labrador and southwestern shores of Hud- 

 son Bay)^ west to eastern portion of the Great Plains; breeding south- 

 ward to Massjichusetts, New York (Hamilton and Oneida counties), 

 northern Indiana (Steuben and Dekalb counties), southeastern South 

 Dakota, and southeastern Missouri, and along higher AllcT^henies to 

 mountains of North Carolina (a])Ove 4,000 feet); in winter southward 

 to northern Florida and c<uitral Texas (Bexar and Kendall counties). 



CertluafainiUariii (not of Linmeus) Vieillot, Ois. Am. kScj)!., ii, 1807, 70. — Wil- 

 son, Atii. Orii., i, 1808, 122, pi. 7, fig. 1. — Bonaparte, Jourii. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., iv, 1824, 27; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 95.— Nuitall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 585.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 158, pi. 415; 

 Synopsis, 1839, 72; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 109, pi. 115.— Thompson, 

 Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 95. — Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 6t), part (Indian Territory; Texas). — Willis, Ann. Rep. 

 Smithsonian Inst, for 1858 (1859), 282 (Nova Scotia). — Coues, Check List, 

 1873, no. 42; 2d ed., 1882, no. 62; Birds N. W., 1874, 26, excl. syn. part; 

 Birds Col. Val., 1878, excl. syn. part.— Bagg, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 

 183 (Hamilton Co., New York, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 238 (New England breeding range). — Gadow, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 323 part. 



\_Certhia'\ fam'd'iaris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 84 part. 



C[erthia'] familiaris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 273, part. 



Cerihiafnsca (not of Gmelili, 1788) Barton, Fragments Nat. Hist. Pemi., 1799, 

 11 (Pennsylvania). 



C[e.rthia^ familiaris var. fusca Coues, Birds N. W. , 1874, 230, in text. 



Certhia familiaris fusca American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 Jan., 1899, 126.— Beyer, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 126 (Lou- 

 isiana, in winter. ) 



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« Seventeen specimens. 



Texas specimens (December to March) compare in average mea.«urements with 

 those from localities east of the Mississippi River, as follows: 



The Texan specimens average appreciably darker olive, and may possibly repre- 

 sent a more southern breeding form, perhaps migrant-^ from Missouri, etc. 

 '' Northern records for this form are singularly few. 



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