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Mexico and from the western edge of the plains west to western Mon- 

 tana and Wyoming, eastern Nevada, and central Arizona. The Inyo 

 nuthatch {/S. c tenuissima) occurs from British Columbia to northern 

 Baja California, and from western Montana and Wyoming to the 

 Cascades of Oregon and Washington. The slender-billed nuthatch 

 {S. c. aavXeata) occurs from the western side of the Sierra Nevada to 

 the Pacific coast and from central Washington southward. The Mexi- 

 can white-breasted nuthatch {8. c. mexicana) ranges from the Chisos 

 Mountains of southwestern Texas through the highlands of Mexico. 

 The San Pedro nuthatch {S. c. alexandrae) occurs in the pine belt of 

 the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California. The San Lucas 

 nuthatch {S. c. lagunae) occurs in the Cape district of Baja California. 



Casual records. — A specimen is recorded to have been taken at 

 Churchill, Manitoba, previous to 1845 ; the species was observed at the 

 Forks of the Albany River, Ontario, on September 2, 1920 ; one was 

 observed at Kamouraska, Quebec, on May 3, 1934, and one seen in 

 Gaspe County, Quebec, on July 9, 1924. 



Egg dates. — Arizona : 9 records, April 22 to May 28. 



California : 56 records, March 21 to June 29 ; 28 records, April 6 to 

 May 17, indicating the height of the season. 



Colorado : 12 records. May 13 to June 25. 



Florida : 8 records, March 15 to June 11. 



New York : 15 records, April 29 to May 30, 



Oregon : 9 records, April 19 to June 24. 



Pennsylvania : 11 records, April 21 to May 29. 



Wisconsin : 5 records, April 29 to May 11. 



SITTA CAROLINENSIS CAROLINENSIS Latham 

 FLORIDA NUTHATCH 



PlATES 5, 6 

 HABITS 



This southeastern race of the white-breasted nuthatch has a rather 

 wide range in the Lower Austral Zone of coastal South Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Florida, along the Gulf coast to Louisiana, and up the 

 Mississippi Valley to southeastern Missouri, Kentucky, and southern 

 Illinois. * 



W. E. D. Scott (1890) in describing this subspecies (under the name 

 atJcinsi) gave as its characters : "Average of wing, as compared with 

 northern birds, 0.20 in. smaller in males, 0.15 in. smaller in females. 

 Bill relatively much longer and slenderer. Light markings of tipping 

 of the coverts and quills of the wings decidedly narrower. A little 

 less white in the tail. In the female birds the Uach of the top of the 

 head and nape is pronounced^ and it is difficult to distinguish the sexes 



