[ Auk 
182 OBERHOLSER, Eastern Subspecies of Sitta carolinensis. April 
Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Latham. 
[Stta] carolinensis LataHaM, Index Ornith., I, 1790, p. 262 (America, 
Jamaica) (based principally on Sitta carolinensis Brisson, Ornith., III, 
1760, p. 596, from Carolina and Jamaica; which in turn is founded chiefly 
on Catesby’s Svtta capite n-gro, Nat. Hist. Carolina, Fla., and Bahama Is., 
I, 17538, p. 22, pl. 22, from Carolina). 
Sitta carolensis COVERT, in Chapman’s History Washtenaw Co., Michi- 
gan, 1881, p. 175 (nomen nudum: = errore pro S.tta carolinensis Latham). 
Sctta melanocephala Vie1uuoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XX XI, 1819, 
p. 336 (nom. nov. pro Sitta carolinensis Latham). 
Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scorr, Auk, VII, April, 1890, p. 118 (Tarpon 
Springs; Florida). 
Sita carolensis RipGway, Bulletin U. 8. Nat. Mus., No. 50, part III, 
1904, p. 443 (Covert MS.) (in synonymy; nom. nov. pro Sitta carolinensis 
Latham). 
Sitta atkinsi litorea Maynarp, Records of Walks and Talks with Nature, 
VIII, No. 1, January 12, 1916 (January 138, 1916), p. 5, pl. [1] (New River, 
North Carolina). : 
CHAPS. SUBSP.— Size small; upper parts dark-colored; lower parts 
soiled white or shaded with grayish; female with black of head usually 
not overlaid with plumbeous. 
MerAsUREMENTS.!— Adult male: wing, 87.3, tail, 44.6, culmen, 18.5; 
tarsus, 18.4; middle toe without claw, 15.6. Adult female: wing, 86.3; 
culmen, 18; tarsus, 18; middle toe without claw, 15.7. 
Type Locauity.— Mouth of the Savannah River, South Carolina? 
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.— Southeastern United States: north to 
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern Illi- 
nois, and southeastern Missouri; west to western Arkansas and eastern 
Teas; south to southeastern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and 
Florida; and east to the Atlantic coast from Florida to North Carolina. 
Remarks.— The Sitta carolinensis of Latham * was based chiefly 
on the Svtta carolinensis of Brisson,’ of which the habitat was 
given as Carolina and Jamaica; and on Catesby,° whose bird came 
from Carolina. As this species does not occur in Jamaica, the 
American Ornithologists’ Union Committee ® very properly re- 
1 Average in millimeters of ten specimens of each sex, taken from Ridgway, Bulletin 
U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, part III, 1904, p. 444. 
2 Here for the first time definitely designated. 
3 Index Ornith., I, 1790, p. 262. 
4 Ornith., III, 1760, p. 596. 
5 Nat. Hist. Carolina, Fla., and Bahama Is., I, 1753, p. 22, pl. 22. 
Check-List North Amer. Birds, ed. 3, 1910, p. 345. 
