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Certhia brachydactyla mauritanica \Vitherby. 
Certhia brachydactyla mauritanica Witherby, Bull. Brit. Ornith, Club, Vol. 15, p. 35 (1905) (Ain-Draham, Tunis). 
Hab. Woods of Tunis and Algeria. 
. Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae Hartert. 
Certhia-brachydactyla dorotheae Hartert, Bull, Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. 14, p. 50 (1904) (Cyprus). 
Hab. Pine forests of the Troddos Mountains, Cyprus. 
Certhia brachydactyla harterti Hellmayr. 
Certhia familiaris hav terti Hellmayr, Journ. f. Ornith, Vol. 49, p. 189 (1901) (Asia Minor). 
Hab. Muuntains of Asia Minor (Smyrna, Alum-dagh). 
2. Certhia brachydactyla americana Bonaparte. 
Certhia americana Bonaparte, Comp. List Birds Europe and North America, p. 11 (1838) (based on C. familiaris 
Audubon, Ornith. Biogr. Vol. 5, pl. 419 : North America). 
Certhia rufa Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1875, p. 347 (1875) (ex « Certhia rufa » Bartram, Travels Florida, 
p. 28gbis). 
Certhia fusca (nec Gmelin 1788) Barton, Fragments Nat. Hist. Pennsylv. p. 11 (1799) (Pennsylvania). 
Hab. Eastern North America: north to Ontario, Manitoba etc., west to eastern portion of the Great 
Plains; breeding southward to Massachusetts, New York, northern Indiana, S. E. Dakota, S. E. Mis- 
souri, and along higher Alleghenies to mountains of North Carolina; in winter southward to Florida 
and Texas. 
. Certhia brachydactyla montana Ridgway. 
Certhia familiavis montana Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 5, p. 114 (1882) (Apache, Arizona). 
Hab. Rocky Mountain district, breeding from New Mexico and Central Arizona to Cook Inlet, Alaska; 
migrating southward to S. E. California etc. 
. Certhia brachydactyla zelotes Osgood. 
Certhia familiaris zelotes Osgood, Auk, Vol. 18, p. 182 (1901) (Battle Creek, Tehama Co., California). 
Hab. California (except northern coast district), through Central Oregon and Washington to Central 
British Columbia, breeding southward to Mount Whitney, Tejon Mountains and Los Angeles 
County; northwards along coast to Marin County, California. 
. Certhia brachydactyla occidentalis Ridgway. 
(Certhia familiaris) occidentalis Ridgway, Proc. U S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 5, p. 115 (1882) (Simiahmoo, Washington). 
Hab. Humid coast slope, from North California (Marin County) to Southern Alaska (Sitka). 
Certhia brachydactyla alticola Miller. 
Certhia mexicana (nec Gmelin, 1788), Gloger, Handb. Naturg. Vo6g. Eur. p. 381 footnote (1834) (Mexico). 
« Certhia familiaris alticolaG. Miller, Auk, Vol. 12, p. 186, part. (1895) (new name for C. mexicana, preoccupied). 
Hab. Mountains of South Mexico : States of Hidalgo, Vera Cruz, Puebla, Mexico, Michoacan, S. E. 
Jalisco, Oaxaca and Chiapas; and high mountains of Guatemala, also recorded from nothern Nica- 
ragua (Matagalpa). 
. Certhia brachydactyla albescens Berlepsch. 
Certhia mexicana albescens Berlepsch, Auk, Vol. 5, p. 450 (1888) (Durango, Durango). 
Hab. Mountains of N. W. Mexico : Tepic, Jalisco (Guadalajara), Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua, 
Sonora and southern Arizona (Santa Catalina, Santa Rita, Huachuca and Chiricahua Mts. etc.). 
. Certhia himalayana himalayana Vigors. 
Certhia himalayana Vigors, Proc, Comm. Zool. Soc. Vol. 1, p. 174 (1832) (Himalayan Mountains). 
Certhia asiatica Swainson, Anim. in Menag. p. 353 (1838) (India). 
Fig. Gould, Birds Asia, Vol. 2, pl. 17. 
Hab. N. W. Himalayas from Chitral and Gilgit, east to Kumaon, and the adjoining parts of Afghanistan. 
The records from Assam most probably refer to the next form. 
. Certhia himalayana yunnanensis Sharpe. 
Certhia yunnanensis Sharpe, Bull, Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. 13, p. 11 (1902) (Shayang, Chiitung Road, W. Yunnan). 
Fig. David & Oustalet, Ois. Chine, pl. 14. 
Hab. S. W. China : Western Yunnan and W. Szechuen; Kansu? 
