470 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CERTHIA FAMILIARIS OCCIDENTALIS Ridgway. 

 TAWNY CREEPER. 



Similar to C f. zelotes^ but browner and more suffused with tawny 

 above; wing--markings more pronouncedly buff; under parts more 

 buffy (about as in C. f. americana). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 116-138 (128.3); « wing, 60-64 (61.9);^ 

 tail, 65-67 (61.2);'' exposed culmen, 14-16 (15.2);^ tarsus, 14.5-16 

 (15..5);'^ middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.9);'^ hind claw, 8-9.5 (8.8). * 



Adult female.— h(ingt]\ (skins), 110-130(120.5);^ wing, 58-62 (60);^ 

 tail, 53-59 (55.6);" exposed cuhnen, 12.5-13.5 (12.9);^ tarsus, 15-15.5 

 (15.3);" middle toe, 11.5-12.5 (11.9);" hind claw, 8-8.5 (8.2). « 



Humid coast slope, from northern California (Marin County, March; 

 Humboldt Bay, etc.) to southern Alaska (Sitka, Point Gustavus, etc.). 



Certhia familiar is (not of Linnaeus) Ornithological Committee, Jonrn. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 193 (Columbia K.).—Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., vii, 1839, 155 (Columbia R.).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 42, part; 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 62, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 26, part; Birds Col. VaL, 1878, 

 145, part. — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 323, part (Vancouver 

 I.; British Columbia?). 



\_Certhia'] familiar is Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 84, part. 



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



Certhia americana (not of Bonaparte) Baird, E,ep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 372, part (Fort Steilacoom, Washington); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 275, 

 part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 89, part (Simiahmoo and Fort Steilacoom, 

 Washington). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 235 (Vancouver I.). — 

 Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 192 (Fort 

 Steilacoom, Washington; Oregon). — Brown, Ibis, 1868,42 (Vancouver I.). 



Certhia familiaris, var. americana, Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 125, part. 



Certhia familiaris mexicana (not Certhia mexicana Gloger) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 169, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 55ffl, 

 part. 



\_Certhia familiaris'] occidentalis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, July 8, 1882, 

 115 (Simiahmoo, Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Certhia familiaris occidentalis Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Oct., 1882, 

 257, part. — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 43, part (w. side Cas- 

 cades, inch Vancouver I.). — Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 47 (Grays 

 Harbor and East Humptulips, Washington; resident?). — Palmer (T. S. ), 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 310 (Aberdeen, Washington, Aug.) — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 2ded., 1895, no. 726c, part. — Grinnell (J.), Auk, 

 XV, 1898,, 130 (Sitka, Alaska, breeding); Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 

 70.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1900, 153, part (coast British 

 Columbia). — Osgood, North Am. Fauna, no. 21, 1901, 50 (Queen Charlotte 

 Islands).— Rathbun (S. F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 139 (Seattle, Washington, 

 resident ) . 



« Three specimens. c Four specimens. « Six specimens. 



^ Eight specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



