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the tail 1.80; while in C>,1C^■i (l?), from El Paso, the wing is 2.15, 

 and tlie tail 2.25. The Cape St. Lueas specimens are brighter, and 

 the top of head just behind the forehead has the feathers strongly- 

 tinged with reddish-orange. 



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Sdbfamilt SITTIN.E. 



SITTA, LiNNiEus. 



Sitta, LiNN.«DS, Syst. Nat. 1735 and 1758, 115. 

 Reicuembacu, Handbuch, No. IX, 1853, 149. 



(Type S. europaea.y — 

 (Mouogrnph of genus.) 



Sitta carolinensis. 



Sitta europasa, var. y, carolinensis, Gm. S. N. I, 1788, 44f . 



Sitta carolinensis, Latu. Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 2f)2; also oi' all other Ame- 

 rican writers. — Reichenbach, Handbuch, Abt. II, 1853, 153, tab. 

 dxiii, figs. 3,563-4.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 374, pi. xxxiii, 

 fig. 4.— Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 106. 



Sitta melanocephala, Vieill. Gal. I, 1834, 171, pi. clxxi. 



Other figures : Wilson, Am. Orn. I, pi. ii, fig. 3. — Aud. Om. Biog. II, pi. 

 152.— Ib. B. a. IV, pi. 247. 



Hab, United States and the Provinces ; west to valley of the Missouri. 



(1,645.) 6.08; 10.89; 3-68. (1,761.) 6.00; 11.25; 3.75. 

 fi.80; 10.90; 3.60. (30,996.) 6.00; 11.00. 



(28,954.) 5.90; 11.10; 3.40. (29,252.) 



§itta aciileata. 



Sitta ariileata, Cassin, Pr. A. N. So. VIII, Oct. 1856, 254.- 

 N. Am. 1858, 375, pi. xxxiii, fig. 3. 



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