BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 453 



(Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; breeding?). — Stone, Auk, xiv, 1897, 324 

 (near Lopez, Sullivan Co., Pennsylvania, breeding). — Merkill (J. C), Auk, 

 XV, 1898, 20 (Fort Sherman, Idaho, breeding). — Dearborn, Prelim. List 

 Birds Belknap and Merrimack counties, N. H., 1898, 33 (breeding). — Rives, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, 137 (West "Virginia, breeding in spruce belt). — Faxon and 

 Hoffmann, Birds Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, 1900, 12 (breeding in spruce 

 belt of Saddle Mt. and Hoosac Mts.). — ^Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 10, 

 1900, 92 (Skagway, Log Cabin, and junction of Lewes and Pelly rivers, 

 Alaska). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1900, 153 (Westminster and 

 Ducks, British Columbia).— Farley, Auk, xviii, 1901, 198 (Medford, Massa- 

 chusetts; breeding?). — Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 128 (Echi- 

 mamish, Knee Lake, and bet. York Factory and Fort Churchill, Kee- 

 watin).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 454. 



8[itta] canadensis Gameel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1847, 33 (California). — 

 Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 96, 153 (n. e. Illinois; rare summer 

 resident). — Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 288 (both sides of 

 Sierra Nevada to Columbia R.). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 

 271.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 559.— Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 

 Lief., 1903, 185. 



[(SstoJ canadensis Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 83. 



Sitta varia Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 40, pi. 2, fig. 4 (ex Sitta varia, ventre rubra, 

 etc., Bartram, Travels, 1st Am. ed., p. 289 bis.). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 275. 



Slitta} varia Bonaparte, Journ. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 25. 



(Sitta siitZfa ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxi, 1819, 332 (based on Sitta 

 varia Wilson, Am. Orn., pi. 2, fig. 4). 



(?) Sitta melanocephala (not of Vieillot, 1819) Lesson, Traits d'Om., 1831, 316, 

 part (cites Sitta canadensis Gmelin). 



SITTA PUSILLA Latham. 

 BROWN-HEADED MTITHATCH. 



Adults {sexes alike) in spring and summer. — Entire pileum and 

 lateral portions of hindneck, together with loral and upper half of 

 auricular regions, plain light grayish brown (broccoli brown or drab), 

 the tips of the feather sometimes considerably paler; median portion 

 of hindneck white, forming a conspicuous spot; back, scapulars; rump, 

 upper-tail coverts and lesser wing-coverts, uniform bluish gray or 

 plumbeous, the middle and greater wing-coverts, tertials, and middle 

 pair of rectrices similar but less bluish gray; secondaries and primaries 

 dull or brownish slate color, with pale gray edgings; tail (except middle 

 pair of retrices), black, the three outermost retrices broadly tipped with 

 gray, the two outermost crossed by a subterminal band (incomplete) 

 of white — both the terminal gray and the subterminal white more 

 extensive on the lateral rectrix; suborbital region, lower half of auri- 

 cular region, malar region, chin, and upper throat white; rest of 

 under parts dull white, usually more or less tinged with buff, passing 

 into light bluish gray on sides and flanks; maxilla slate-blackish; 



