446 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



fiitta carolinensis, var. aouleata Baied, Brewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 117, part, pi. 8, fig. 2.— Coues, Birds, N. W., 1874, 24, part. 



\_Sitta caroUnmds.} Var. acideata Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 83, part. 



Sitta carolinensis . . var. aculeala CouBS, Check List, 1873, no. 38a, part. — • 

 Hbnshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 230 (Mount Whitney, Cali- 

 fornia) . 



Sitta carolinensis aculeaia Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 173 (Sierra 

 Nevada); vii, 1875, 12 (Carson City, Nevada); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 51a, part. — Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 134, part; Check List, 2d'ed., 

 1882, no. 58, part.— Meaens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 163 (Fort 

 Klamath, Oregon). — Ameeioan Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 727a.— Emeeson, Bull. 7, Calif. Ac. Sci., 1887, 424 (San Diego County).— 

 Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 246 (San Pedro Martir Mts.).— Fishee (A. K.), 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 136 (Sierra Nevada, Panamint Mts., etc., s. e. 

 California). — Geinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 49 (Los Angeles 

 Co. , California, resident) . 



8\itta] c\_arolinensis1 aculeata Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 271, part.. — 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 453, part. 



S[itta] carolinensis aculeata Hbnshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 289 

 (Sierra Nevada to Columbia R. ). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559, 

 part. — Hellmayk, Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 188, part. 



Sitta carolinensis . . . /S. aculeata Ridgway, Orn. Fortieth Parallel, 1877, 415, part 

 (Sierra Nevada). — Ridgway and Bbldinq, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 

 401 (Marysville, Stockton, and Calaveras Co., California). 



Sitta carolinensis, /3. aculeata Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 65 (Cala- 

 veras Co., California). 



SITTA CAROLINENSIS LAGUNiE Brewster. 

 ST, LUCAS NTTTHATCH. 



Similar to S. c. aculeata but smaller, and with black tips to outer 

 rectrices averaging slightly, the white subterminal area decidedly, 

 narrower. 



Adult m«fe.— Length (skins), 123-132 (125.3); wing, 84.5-88 (86.7); 

 tail, 48.5-45.5 (44.5); culmen, 17.5-19.5 (18.5); tarsus, 16-18 (17); 

 middle toe, 12.5-14 (13.4). « 



Adult female.— Liength (skins), 118.5-129 (123.4); wing, 79.5-86 

 (83.4); tail, 39.5-46 (44.1); culmen, 17-19.5 (18.8); tarsus, 16-17 

 (16.5); middle toe, 12-18.5 (13). « 



Cape St. Lucas district of Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna; 

 Victoria Mountains). 



/Sttta carolinensis aculeata . . . ? (not 8. aculeata Cassin) Belding, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 347 (Victoria Mts., s. Lower California). 

 Sitta carolinensis aculeata Ameeican Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 



no. 727a, part. 

 Slittal clarolinensisl aculeata Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 271, part. 

 S[itta'] carolinensis aculeata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559, part. 



Ten specimens. 



