ORDER PASSERES. 305 



[B 2^^, part, C z^.part, R <,\, part, C 57»/^^^-] 



Geog. Dist. — Florida, and northward along the coast to South 

 Carolina. 



728. Sitta canadensis Linn. 



Red-breasted Nuthatch. 



Sitta canadensis Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 177. 



[B 279, C 39, R 52, C 59.] 



Geog. Dist. — North America at large, breeding from northern 

 New England, northern New York, and northern Michigan north- 

 ward, and southward in the Alleghanies, Rocky Mountains, and 

 Sierra Nevada ; in winter south to about the southern border of the 

 United States. 



729. Sitta pusilla Lath. 



Brown-headed Nuthatch. 



Sitta pusilla Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 1790, 263. 



[B 280, C 40, R 53, C 60.] 



Geog. Dist. — South Atlantic and Gulf States, north to southern 

 Maryland and (casually t ) Ohio, Missouri, etc. 



730. Sitta pygmaea Vig. 



Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Sitta pygmcea Vig. Zool. Beechey's Voy. 1839, 25, pi. 4. 



[B 281, C 41, R 54, C61.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from New Mexico, Colorado 

 and Montana to southern California, Washington, and eastern 

 British Columbia ; southward in Mexico to Mt. Orizaba. 



730 «. Sitta pygmaea leuconucha Anthony. 



White-naped Nuthatch. 



Sitta pygmcea leuconucha Anthony, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 2d ser. 

 II. Oct. II, 1889, 77. 



[B 2^1, part, C 4^, part, R 54,/^r/, C 61, part."] 



Geog. Dist. — San Pedro Mountains, Lower California. 



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