ORDER PASSERES. 305 



[B 277, part, C 38, part, R $i, part, C 57,/r/.] 



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 ? ) Ohio, Missouri, etc. 



730. Sitta pygmaea VIG. 



Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Sitta pygmtza VIG. Zool. Beechey's Voy. 1839, 25, pi. 4. 



[B 2 8i, C 4 i, R54, C6i.] 



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 a. Sitta pygmaea leuconucha ANTHONY. 



White-naped Nuthatch. 



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

 II. Oct. u, 1889, 77. 



[B 281, part, C ^part, R 54, part, C 6i,/#r/.] 

 GEOG. DIST. San Pedro Mountains, Lower California. 



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