BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEKIOA. 



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Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 117-132 (124.1); wing, 60-67 (62.9); 

 tail 55-65 (61.2); exposed culmen, 12-15 (12.9); tarsus, 14.5-16 (16); 

 middle toe, 10.5-11.5 (11.1); hind claw, 7-9 (7.8). « 



Eastern North America; north to Grand Menan, Ontario, Manitoba, 

 etc. (probably to southern Labrador and southwestern shores of Hud- 

 son Bay)* west to eastern portion of the Great Plains; breeding south- 

 ward to Massachusetts, New York (Hamilton and Oneida counties), 

 northern Indiana (Steuben and Dekalb counties), southeastern South 

 Dakota, and southeastern Missouri, and along higher AUe-ifhenies to 

 mountains of North Carolina (above 4,000 feet); in winter southward 

 to northern Florida and central Texas (Bexar and Kendall counties). 



Certhia familiaris (not of Linnseus) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 70. — Wil- 

 son, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 122, pi. 7, fig. 1.— Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., iv, 1824, 27; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 95.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 585.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 158, pi. 415; 

 Synopsis, 1839, 72; Birds Am., oot. ed., ii, 1841, 109, pi. 115.— Thompson, 

 Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 95. — Woodhousb, in Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 66, part (Indian Territory; Texas). — Willis, Ann. Eep. 

 Smithsonian Inst, for 1858 (1859), 282 (Nova Scotia). — Coues, Check List, 

 1873, no. 42; 2d ed., 1882, no. 62; Birds N. W., 1874, 26, excl. syn. part; 

 Birds Col. VaL, 1878, excl. syn. part.— Bagg, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 

 183 (Hamilton Co., New York, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Bkewstbk, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 238 (New England breeding range). — Gadow, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 323 part. 



[Certhia] familiaris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 84 part. 



Clerthial familiaris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 273, part. 



Certhia fusca (not of Gmelin, 1788) Bakton, Fragments Nat. Hist. Penn., 1799, 

 11 (Pennsylvania). 



C\_erthia1 familiaris y&r. fusca Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 230, in text. 



Certhia familiaris fusca Ambeioan Oenithologists' Union CoMMia?TEE, Auk, xvi, 

 Jan., 1899, 126.— Beyee, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 126 (Lou- 

 isiana, in winter. ) 



« Seventeen specimens. 



Texas specimens (December to March) compare in average measurements with 

 those from localities east of the Mississippi Kiver, as follows: 



The Texan specimens average appreciably darker olive, and may possibly repre- 

 seiit a more southern breeding form, perhaps migrants from Missouri, etc. 

 & Northern records for this form are singularly few. 



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