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Bangs, iWw Birds from Eastern North America. 



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Remarks. — Linnseus's Turdus crinitus is based wholly upon 

 Catesby, and the type locality of the species is therefore southern 

 South Carolina. 



Breeding Crested Flycatchers from South Carolina and 

 Georgia, though intergrades, are much nearer the southern ex- 

 treme, and the northern form is the one to properly receive a 

 new subspecific name. 



In the north M. crinitus boreus is rare or of local distribution, 

 although it reaches southern Canada. A good many pairs breed 

 every year in the neighborhood of the town of Scituate, Massa- 

 chusetts, for which reason I have selected that place for the type 

 locality of the subspecies. It is also a regular, though somewhat 

 local breeder in other parts of Massachusetts. 



The principal character that separates M. crinitus crinitus and M. 

 crinitus boreus is the different bill. This, however, is alone suffi- 

 cient to always distinguish the two races, the enormous swollen 

 bill of the birds that breed in Florida and Georgia being in 

 marked contrast to the small slender bill of the bird of the north- 

 eastern United States. 



Sitta pusilla caniceps, subsp. nov. Florida Brown-headed 



Nuthatch. 



Type from Clear Water, Hillsboro Co., Fla., $ ad., No. 3021, Coll. of E. 

 A. and O. Bangs, collected March 25, 1874, by C. J. Maynard. 



Subspecific characters. Size smaller than S. pusilla pusilla j bill larger; 

 top of head much lighter brown, the feathers tipped and edged still 



Measurements. 



1 Coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. 



