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stricted the type locality to Carolina. For the present purpose of 
fixing more definitely the type region of Sitta carolinensis, we here 
designate the mouth of the Savannah River in South Carolina as 
the type locality, a region which Catesby is known to have visited. 
The name Sitta carolinensis must, therefore, apply to the form to 
which the birds from South Carolina belong. Mr. Robert Ridgway : 
has referred these to the race from the northeastern United States, 
which has hitherto commonly passed as S7tta carolinensis carolinen- 
sis. A careful examination of a satisfactory series from South 
Carolina shows that the birds from this region are, in both size and 
color, decidedly nearer the Florida subspecies, hitherto called 
Sitta carolinensis atkinsi;* so that, unless three forms be recog- 
nizable, the bird from South Carolina must belong to the same 
subspecies as that from Florida. 
Mr. C. J. Maynard has recently described a new subspecies of 
Sitta carolinensis from the New River in southeastern North Caro- 
lina as Sitta atkinsi litorea.* His type, taken by himself on Novem- 
ber 24, 1903, has, through his courtesy, been examined in the 
present connection, and found to measure as follows: wing, 87 
millimeters; tail, 46; exposed culmen, 15.5; tarsus, 18.3; middle 
toe without claw, 15.5. In color and other characters it is identi- 
cal with birds from South Carolina, hence his name must in any 
consideration, fall as a synonym of Sitta carolinensis carolinensis 
Latham. Mr. Maynard also proposes to recognize three forms of 
the White-breasted Nuthatch in the eastern United States. Sztta 
carolinensis carolinensis of the northeastern United States; Sztta 
atkinst atkinst from Florida; and Sitta atkinst litorea Maynard 
from the coast region of North Carolina, South Carolina, and 
Georgia. The specific distinctness of Sitta atkins: Scott from the 
form of Svtta carolinensis occurring in the northeastern United 
States, hitherto called Sitta carolinensis carolinensis, cannot be 
maintained, as may readily be ascertained by an examination of 
specimens from all parts of the range of these birds; in fact, the 
birds from South Carolina and Georgia, which Mr. Maynard calls a 
1 Bulletin U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, part II, 1904, pp. 441-443. 
2 Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scott, Auk, VII, April, 1890, p. 118. 
3 Records of Walks and Talks with Nature, VIII, No. 1, January 12, 1916, p. 5, pl. [1]. 
4 Records of Walks and Talks with Nature, VIII, No. 1, January 12, 1916, pp. 5-7. 
