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Willamette Valley. 0. B. Johnson, 1880. Asso- 

 ciated with S. c. aculeate. 



Cooper, 1860. Common in the Territory, preferring 

 the oaks and other deciduous trees, and never frequent- 

 ing the interior of the dense forests. I observed this 

 S. c. aculeafa at 49° east of the Cascade Mountains as 

 late as October 15. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. — Common summer 

 resident; accidental west of the Cascades. 



Henshaw, 1879. From the line of the railroad to the 

 Columbia Eiver, and so on to the north, the red-bellied 

 nuthatch is really a common bird and in much of this 

 area it doubtless breeds. Towards the Columbia River 

 it was more numerous, and upon the Des Chutes its 

 numbers in certain localities were comparable with 

 those of the pigmy nuthatch. 



Ridgway. An inhabitant in summer of the pine 

 woods exclusively, this species was met with at that sea- 

 son only in the thickest or more extensive coniferous 

 forests such as those on the Sierra Nevada, Wahsatch, and 

 Uintah ranges. In September we found it common in 

 the aspen groves along the streams in the upper Hum- 

 boldt Valley; later in the same month it was also com- 

 mon in the Clover Mountains at an altitude of 11,000 

 feet. 



Berkeley. T. S. Palmer. — Not previously collected 

 here. 



267. Sitta pygmaea Vig. Pigmy Nuthatch. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. — Seen several times in Jan- 

 uary. 



Julian. N. S. Goss. — From the middle of March to 

 the middle of May not seen. 



San Bernardino Mountains. F. Stephens. — Rare resi- 

 dent. 



