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/. Certhia familiaris zelotes Osgood. Sierra Creeper. [726d.] 



Certhiafamiliaris zelotes Osgood, Auk, XVIII, April, 1901, 182. (Battle 

 Creek, Tehama Co., California.) 



Range. — Canadian and Transition zones from the Cascade Mountains of 

 Oregon and the Sierra Nevada of California south to San Jacinto Mountains, 

 spreading into adjacent valleys in winter. 



Family SITTID.Si. Nuthatches. 



Genus SITTA Linn^us. 



SUta LiNN^trs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta 

 europcea Linn^tjs. 



Sitta carolinensis Latham. 



Range. — Temperate North America south (in mountains) to 

 Lower California and central and southern Mexico. 



a. Sitta carolinensis carolinensis Latham. White-breasted Nuthatch. [727.] 

 Sitta carolinensis Latham, Index Orn., 1, 1790, 262. (Carolina.) 



Range. — North America east of the Plains. Breeds in Canadian, Transi- 

 tion, and Upper Austral zones from northern Minnesota, central Ontario, 

 southern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to the northern parts of the 

 Gulf States; casual in Keewatin. 



b. Sitta carolinensis aculeita Cassin. Slender-billed Nuthatch. [727a.] 

 Sitta aculeata Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 254. (California.) 



Range. — Pacific coast region. Breeds mainly in Transition Zone from 

 southern British Columbia to northern Lower California and from the Pacific 

 coast east to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. 



c. Sitta carolinensis fitkinsi Scott. Florida White-breasted Nuthatch. 



[7276.] 

 Sitta carolinensis atkinsi Scott, Auk, VII, April, 1890, 118. (Tarpon 

 Springs, Florida.) 



Range. — Breeds in Lower Austral Zone from Mississippi eastward along the 

 Gulf coast to Florida. 



