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Alabama: Autaugaville; Squaw Shoals; Carlton; Ardell; Jackson; 
Orange Beach; Huntsville; Sand Mountain (9 miles west of Trenton, 
Georgia). 
Arkansas: Van Buren. 
Florida: Cousin’s (Osceola County); Gainesville; Kissimmee; seven 
miles southwest of Kissimmee; twenty-four miles southwest of Kissimmee; 
Lake Arbuckle; Morgan Hole (De Soto County); Olney (Brevard County). 
Georgia: No definite locality given. 
Illinois: Parkersburg; Mt. Carmel. 
Indiana: Wheatland; Knox County. 
Kentucky: Lexington. 
Louisiana: Belcher; Hackley. 
Mississippi: Bay St. Louis. 
Missouri: Willow Springs. 
North Carolina: New River. 
South Carolina: Wayne’s Place (Christ Church Parish); Kershaw 
County; Georgetown; Mt. Pleasant; Chester; Lanes. 
Tennessee: Rockwood. 
Texas: Giddings. 
Sitta carolinensis cookei, subsp. nov.' 
Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Auct. nec Latham. 
CuHars. sussP.— Similar to Sitta carolinensis carolinensis, but larger; 
upper parts lighter; lower parts more purely white; bill usually relatively 
less slender; and female with black of head usually overlaid with plum- 
beous. 
DescripTion.— Type, adult male, No. 558, Collection of W. W. Cooke; 
Washington, District of Columbia, May 23, 1904; W. W. Cooke. Pileum 
and cervix glossy black; upper parts carbon gray, the rump and upper tail- 
coverts paler; middle tail-feathers neutral gray; remainder of tail black 
with large white terminal or subterminal spots on the three outer feathers; 
wings fuscous black; the median, greater, and primary coverts, the inner 
webs of the two inner tertials, a subterminal streak on the inner web of 
outermost tertial, and the basal three-fourths of outer web of the same 
feather, black; the lesser wing-coverts, edgings to wing-coverts and quills, 
together with terminal portion of outermost tertial and outer webs of inner 
tertials, neutral gray, palest on the secondaries and inclined to whitish on 
the middle portion of some of the primaries; sides of neck opposite the 
jugulum, black, connecting with the black of the cervix; sides of head and 
anterior portion of sides of neck, together with lower parts, white (in the 
present specimen somewhat adventitiously soiled), the crissum mixed with 
1 Named for Professor Wells W. Cooke, in appropriate recognition of his services to 
ornithological science. 
