ORDER PASSERES. 33 I 



720 a. Certhia familiaris mexicana (Gloc). 



Mexican Creeper. 



Certhia mexicana Glog. Handb. 1834, 381. 



Certhia familiaris var. mexicana B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. I. 1S74, 

 1 28. 



[B276, C- Rss^, C-.] 



Hab. Guatemala, Mexico, and Southern Arizona. 



''' ' ~ ' Family PARID-ffi. Nuthatches and Tits. 



Subfamily SITTIN.<E. 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 carolinensis Lath, Ind. Orn. L 1790, 262. 



[B277, C38, R51, C57.] 



Hab, Southern British Provinces and Eastern L^'nited States to the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



121 a. Sitta carolinensis aculeata (Cass.). 



Slender-billed Nuthatch. 



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

 Sitta canadensis van aculeata Allen, Bull. ^L C. Z. IIL No, 6, July, 

 1872, 161. 



[B278,C38«,R 51^,058.] 



Hab. Western North America, east to the Plains, and south into 

 Mexico. 



HI --72 7^ 



728. Sitta canadensis Linn. 



Red-breasted Nuthatch. 



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



