BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 467 



CERTHIA FAMILIARIS MONTANA Ridgway. 

 ROCKY MOTTNTArN CREEPER. 



Similar to G. f. americana, but upper parts less brownish, the 

 general color darker and clearer dusky, the whitish streaks whiter, 

 grayish rather than buffy; superciliary stripe broader, purer white; 

 under parts naore purely white, with buff tinge on flanks and under 

 tail-coverts less distinct; size larger, the bill relatively longer. 



Adult male.— Len^h. (skins), 120-135 (128.6); wing, 63-67.5 (66); 

 tail, 64r-70 (65.1); exposed culmen, 15.5-17 (16.4); tarsus, 14.5-15.5 

 (15.2); middle toe, 11-11.5 (11.1); hind claw, 8-9 (8.6). « 



Adult female.— h%ngth (skins), 120-132 (124.6); wing, 61.5-66.5 

 (64.1); tail, 61.5-66 (63.6); exposed culmen, 13-15.5 (14.4); tarsus, 

 14.5-15.5 (15.2); middle toe, 10.5-11.5 (11); hind claw, 8-9 (8.4). » 



Rocky Mountain district, breeding from New Mexico (San Miguel 

 County, upper Pecos River and Santa F6 Mountains, etc.) and central 

 Arizona (Mount Graham, MogoUon Mountains, San Francisco Moun- 

 tains, etc.) to Cook Inlet, Alaska; during migration, southeastern 

 California (San Bernardino Mountains, May, September), and prob- 

 ably into northern Chihuahua and Sonora. 



Cerfhia familiarU (not of Linnseus) Woodhousb, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuiii 

 and Col. R., 1853, 66, part (New Mexico; San Francisco Mts., Arizona).— 

 Henky, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, 209 (New Mexico).— Codes, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 42, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 62, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 

 26, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 145, part.- Teippe, in Coues' Birds N. W., 

 1874, 230 (mountains of Colorado, breeding near timber line) . — Nelson, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 356 (Utah).— Dee w. Bull. Nutt. Cm. Club, vi, 

 1881, 88 (San Juan Co., Colorado, breeding). — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 viii, 1883, 323, part (w. side Rocky Mts.?; Mexico?). 



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



C[erthia2 familiaris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 273, part. 



Certhia americana (not of Bonaparte) Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 372, part (New Mexico); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 275, part; Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 89 (New Mexico).— Heney, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 

 107 (New Mexico).— Kennbely, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 26 

 (Pueblo Creek, New Mexico). — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 

 1866, 97 (Fort Whipple, Arizona).— (?) Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869,296 

 (upper Missouri R. ). 



Certhia familiarii . . . var. americana Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 

 1873, 180 (Colorado).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 

 41 (Utah), 73 (Fort Garland, Colorado, breeding), 100 (Apache, Arizona, 

 Sept. 1), 155 (Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 177 (Fort Gar- 

 land, Colorado; Apache, Arizona; Mount Graham, Arizona, Aug. 3). 

 , Certhia familiaris, var. americana Baihd, Beewee, and Ridg'way, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 125, part. 



Certhia familiaris ... /J. americana Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 418, part 

 (valleys of Truckee and Carson rivers, Nevada, winter; Wasatch and 

 Uinta Mts., Utah, breeding in- pine belt). 



"Ten specimens. 6 Eight specimens. 



