iSSS.] Scott oh the Birds of Arizona. l6^ 



particular localities. F^lorida speciint-iis of the easloni t'onii are. however, 

 in the average, smaller and darker than specimens from Penns\ hania 

 and New York. Southern specimens of the Pacific coast tbrm are smaller 

 and lighter, with smaller bill, than specimens from the coast region of 

 Oregon and Washington Territory-. Yet one of the Fort Steiiacooni 

 specimens (a 'bird of the year') has as small a bill as any in the series. 

 TJie Arizona birds are especially characterized, as a series (15 specimens'), 

 by small size, a very small bill, and excessi\ely pale colors, with the 

 anterior half of the dorsal surface decidedly ash\ . 'I'hey can he \erv 

 closely matched, however, by specimens from Nueces and Presiiiio 

 Counties, Texas, and by occasional specimens from Colorado ami 

 Nebraska. Mr. Sennett's specimens from the Rio Grantle \'allev, Texas, 

 though averaging larger than Arizona specimens, more closely resemble 

 them than do any similar series from elsewliere. Mississippi Valley 

 specimens show less ashy on the anterior dorsal surface than is seen in 

 the Lower Texas and Arizona birds. 



The distinctness of the barring, both above and below, varies in all the 

 forms, being sometimes strongly developed and sometimes obsolete in 

 specimens from the same locality. As already said, it is rather more pro- 

 nounced and constant in the azteciis tbrm than in the others. Though 

 the barring is perhaps least mai^ked in the Atlantic coast form, the most 

 strongly barred specimen in the whole series is from Long Islanil. N. Y. 

 -J. A." A.] 



229. Cistothorus palustris. Loncs-billed Marsh Wkkn. — Obtained 

 by Mr. Herbert Brown near Tucson, where I ha\e also noted it on one 

 occasion in the early springtime. 



[Doubtless var. pulicdicola. — ^J. A. A.] 



230. Certhia familiaris mexicana. Mexican Ckeeper. — The onlv 

 notes made on this species are based on a s]iecimen taken in the pine 

 forests of the Catalinas. April 23, 1SS5. For further details see Auk. \'ol. 

 II, No. 4. p. 350. October. 1SS5. 



231. Sitta carolinensis aculeata. Slender-hillkd Ncthatcii. — This 

 Nuthatch is a common resident in the pine woods and higiier altitudes, 

 and a migrant throughout the district. Mr. Brown regards it as rare im- 

 mediately about Tucson. 



It was a rather common migrant in fall, and winter resident in small 

 numbers in the region about my house in the Catalinas. In spring I 

 rarely saw it here. For reference to its occurrence in the pine woods of 

 this main range see Auk, Vol. II, pp. 172 and 349. 



232. Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch. — The only record 

 made of the occurrence of this species is a female (No. 2819) taken near 

 m\' house, Santa Catalina Mountains, altitude 4500 feet, 29th October. 

 1S85. This, so far as I am aware, is the second record of the capture of the 

 species in Arizona Territory, where it is apparently rare. 



233. Sitta pygmaea. Pvg.my Nuthatch. — This species was only 

 noticed in the pine forests of the Pinal and Santa Catalina Mountains, at 

 each of which points it is resident. For further account of the species in 

 the Catalinas see this journal. Vol. II. pp. 172 and 350. 



