PASSEEES— PAEIDAE— AUBIPAETTS FLAVICEPS. 



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AUKIPAEUS FLAVICEPS (Suud.). 

 Yellow-headed Titmouse, Verdin. 



JEgithalux flaviceps, Sundevall, Ofversigt af Vet. Ak. Forli., vii, v, 1850, 120. 



JEgitJialvs flaviceps, Sund. — Ueerm., P. B. It. Eep., x, pt. ii, 1850, 93. 



Paroides flaviceps, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 0. — Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 4U0.— Id,, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Birds, 14, pi. xv, f. 

 2.— Id., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, 304 (Cape St. Lucas). 



Auripartts flaviceps, Bd., Eev. Am. Binls, i, 1804, 85. — Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1800, 70 (Cooper, Colorado Valley).— Id., Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 

 1SGS, 83.— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 51.— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 S2. — Henshaw, Eep. Oru. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 09. — Bd., 

 Brew., $ Pidg., N. A. Birds, 1875, i, 112, pi. vii, f. 11. 



A single specimen was taken at old Camp Goodwin, Ariz., and occa- 

 sionally an individual was met with among the mesquite trees along the 

 Gila River. The habits, so far as observed, seemed to resemble those of 

 the Titmice, as does also its great. A^ariety of notes. 



In 1874, I met with the species but once, at Camp Lowell, Ariz., in 

 September. This seeming rarity of the species in a region well adapted to its 

 habits was probably due to the lateness of the season at which our visits to 

 Southern Arizona have been made ; it probably having departed to a more 



cong 



enial winter habitat farther south 



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No. 



630 

 792 

 906 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



9 

 $ 



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Camp Lowell, Ariz.... Sept. 9, 1S74 

 Camp Goodwin, Ariz . . Sept. 17, 1S74 

 Gila River, Ariz Oct. 3, 1S74 



II. W. Henshaw 



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1-95 



2. 07 

 1.90 



2. 00 

 1.87 

 1-93 



0.35 

 °-35 

 °. 3i 



0.58 

 0.57 

 0.60 



Fam. SITTIDJE: Nuthatches. 



SITTA CABOLINENSIS, Cm., var. ACULEATA, Cass. 

 Slender-billed TVuftliateli. 



Sitta aculeata, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhTa., viii, October, 1S5C, 254. — Bd., 

 Birds N. A., 1858, 375, pi. 33, f. 3— Heerm., P. E. P. Eep., x, pt. ii, 1850, 

 50.— Xante's, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, 191 (Fort Tejou, Cal.).— 

 Kennerly, P. It. E. Pep., Whipple's Poute, 1850, pi. xxxiii, f. 2, -'0. — Coop. 

 & Suckl., P. E. P. Eep., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 103.— Bd., Eev. Am. Birds, i, 18(34, 

 80. — Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1800, 78 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). — 

 Cooper, Birds Cal. 1870, 54. — MERRIAM", U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1S72, 

 072.— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 195. 



Sitta carolinensis, WooDn., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuni & Col. Eiv., 1854, 00. — Newb., P. B. 

 E. Pep., vi, 1857, 79. 



