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Grinnell and Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., x, 1913, p. 309); also on Santa 
Cruz Island (Howell and Van Rossem, Condor, xm, 1911, p. 210). Occurs in 
winter more or less commonly, but very irregularly, in suitable localities almost 
throughout the state west of the deserts; also at Fort Yuma (Baird, Rep. Ives’ 
Expl. Colo. R., 1861, Zool., p. 6), and Vallecito Creek, extreme eastern San 
Diego County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; has strayed even to the Farallon Islands (W. 
E. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2nd ser., 1, 1888, p. 50). 
505 (730) Sitta pygmaea pygmaea Vigors 
Piamy NuTHATCH 
Synonym—California Nuthatch. 
Status—Common resident locally of the Transition zone north of 35° lati- 
tude; most numerous along the Sierra Nevada, and in the vicinity of Monterey. 
Occurs in winter but very rarely outside of its breeding range; an extreme in- 
stance: near Clovis, Fresno County, November 1 (Tyler, Condor, x1, 1909, p. 
81). Not recorded at any season southeast of the main Sierra Nevada, nor in the 
northern coast region north of Mendocino City, Mendocino County (Mus. Vert. 
Zool.), or west of Sisson and Shasta Valley, in Siskiyou County (C. H. Merriam, 
N. Amer. Fauna no. 16, 1899, p. 131). Common on the Warner Mountains, 
Modoe County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). Southernmost station for this form: Piute 
Mountains, Kern County (C. H. Richardson, Condor, v1, 1904, p. 136). 
506 (730a) Sitta pygmaea leuconucha Anthony 
WHITE-NAPED NUTHATCH 
Synonyms—Sitta pygmaea, part; Pigmy Nuthatch, part. 
Status—Common resident of Transition on the higher mountains of south- 
ern California from Mount Pinos, Ventura County (Grinnell coll.) southeast 
through the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, San Jacinto and Santa Rosa (J. Grin- 
nell and Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., x, 1913, p. 310) mountains to the 
Cuyamaca Mountains in San Diego County (J. G. Cooper, Amer. Nat., vit, 1874, 
p. 17; Mus. Vert. Zool.). (See Ridgway, Bds. N. and Mid. Amer., m1, 1904, p. 
459.) 
507 (733, part) Baeolophus inornatus inornatus (Gambel) 
PLAIN TITMOUSE 
Synonyms—Parus inornatus, part; Bacolophus inornatus restrictus ; Lopho- 
phanes inornatus, part; Plain-crested Titmouse, part. 
Status—Common resident of the Upper Sonoran oak and digger pine re- 
gions west of the Sierran divide and north of Ventura County. Recorded north 
to Ukiah and Covelo, Mendocino County (Belding, Land Bds. Pac. Dist., 1890, 
p. 240; Mus. Vert. Zool.), Tower House, Shasta County (L. Kellogg, Condor, 
xu, 1911, p. 121), and even Scott River, Siskiyou County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
Easternmost station: Walker Pass, Kern County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; specimens 
from there, however, are non-typical. 
