304 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



726 c. Certhia familiaris occidentalis Ridgw. 



Californian Creeper. 



\Certhia familiaris\ occidentalis Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. 

 July 8, 1882, 114. 



[B 2^^, part, C ^2, part, R ^t^, part, C 62, /^r/.] 



Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast, from California to southern Alaska. 



Family FARID^. Nuthatches and Tits. 

 Subfamily SITTING. Nuthatches. 



Genus SITTA Linn^us. 

 Sitta Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 115. Type, S. europcea Linn. 

 727. Sitta carolinensis Lath. 



White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Sitta caroline?isis Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 1790, 262. 



[B277, C38, R51, C57.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, from Georgia north to the 

 southern British Provinces, and west to the Rocky Mountains. 



727 a. Sitta carolinensis aculeata (Cass.). 



Slender-billed Nuthatch. 



Sitta aculeata Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. Oct. 1856, 254. 

 Sitta carolinensis var. aculeata Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. III. No. 6, 

 July, 1872, 161. 



[B278, C38^, R5i^, C58.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western North America, east to the Plains, and 

 south into Mexico. 



727/?. Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scott. 



Florida White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scott, Auk, VII. April, 1890, 118. 



