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Range. — Western United States and Mexico. Breeds in Transition Zone 

 from southern British Columbia, Montana, and southeastern Wyoming to 

 Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, and Vera Cruz, Mexico, and from the Pacific coast 

 to the Rocliy Mountains (Colorado and eastern New Mexico) ; casual in South 

 Dakota and Nebraslca. 



b. Sitta pygmeea leuconiicha Anthony. White-naped Nuthatch. [730a.] 

 Sitta pygmcea leucormcha Anthony, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, II, 

 Oct. 11, 1889, 77. (San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California.) 



Range. — Breeds in Transition Zone from San Diego County, California, 

 soiith to San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California. 



Family PARIDiE. Titmice. 



Genus B.a!OLOPHUS Cabanis. 



Baolophus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, 1851, 91. Type, by monotypy, Parus 

 bicolor Linn^us. 



Bseolophus bicolor (Linn^us). Tufted Titmouse. [731.] 



Parus bicolor Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 340. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Carolinian and Austroriparian zones of eastern United 

 States from Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

 and New Jersey south to central Texas, the Gulf coast, and Florida; 

 casual in southern parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and 

 Connecticut. 



Baeolophus atricristatus (Cassin). 



Range. — Central and southern Texas south in eastern Mexico to 

 Vera Cruz. 



o Beeolophus atricristatus atricristatus (Cassin). Black-crested Titmouse. 

 [732.] 

 Partis atricristatus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1850, 103, 

 pi. 2. (Rio Grande, Texas.) 



Range.— Lower Sonoran and Arid Tropical zones from the Rio Grande 

 Valley south through eastern Mexico to Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, and 

 northern Vera Cruz. 



