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Of Ridgway's original series of 15 specimens, all but these six are either 

 referable to C. f. zelotes or not certainly determinable to subspecies. 

 Certhia familiaris caurina Aldrich 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 59: 129, Oct. 25, 1946. 

 367378. Adult male. Gotchen Creek Ranger Station, Mount Adams, Yak- 

 ima County, Washington. May 16, 1942. Collected by Stanley G. 

 Jewett. Original number 1395. Received from the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 

 Certhia familiaris zelotes Osgood 

 Auk 18 (2) : 182, April 1901. 

 170708. Adult female. Battle Creek ("probably within five miles of 

 Sacramento River and in near vicinity of the U.S. fish hatchery," fide 

 Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 38: 291, 1932), Tehama or Shasta 

 County, California. October 23, 1898. Collected by Richard C. 

 McGregor. 

 [Certhia familiaris] montana Ridgway 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 5: 114, July 21, 1882. 

 =Certhia familiaris montana Ridgway. See A.O.U., Checklist of North 



American birds, ed. 5, p. 402, 1957. 

 7154. Adult (sex not indicated). "Camp 104," Pueblo Creek (vicinity 

 of Aztec Pass, lat. 34°56' N., long. 112°53' W.), Yavapai County, Ari- 

 zona (not New Mexico). January 22, 1854. Collected by Caleb B. R. 

 Kennerly and H. Baldwin Mollhausen. Original nimiber 47. Pacific 

 Railroad Survey, Line of the 35th Parallel. 

 13114. Adult female. Cantonment Burgwyn, Taos County, New Mexico. 



September 10, 1859. Collected by William W. Anderson. 

 53443. Adult female. "Truckee bottoms," near Pyramid Lake, Washoe 

 County, Nevada. December 9, 1867. Collected by Robert Ridgway. 

 Original number 349. U.S. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel. 

 68793. Adult male. Fort Garland, Costilla County, Colorado. June 3, 

 1873. Collected by Henry W. HenshaAv. Original number 227. U.S. 

 Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (Expedition of 

 1873). 

 79550. Adult male. Mount Graham, Graham County, Arizona. Septem- 

 ber 23, 1874. Collected by Henry W. Henshaw. Original number 

 810. U.S. Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (Ex- 

 pedition of 1874). 

 No. 66704, from Apache, Cochise County, Arizona, bears a label with the 

 following notes in Richmond's hand : "This specimen posed as the type from 

 189-? to May, 1912. It was then found tliat R.R. had designated no. 79550 

 as the type at the time he described the form, but the bird had been mounted 

 & the label misplaced until May, 1912, when it was unearthed. C.W.R." 



Examination of the original diagnosis shows that no specimen was for- 

 mally named as the type, and if it be true that the words "Var. montana 

 Ridgw / Type" were written upon the label of No. 79550 at the time of de- 



