. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 132 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus. Okay. CACTUS WBEH. I'imlapfrs hnnnifirapilhts, , Ma|;. de Zool. 1835, 61, pi. xl .i.—Lawr. Ann. X. Y. Ly(. Y, ISal, 114. — (Assiv, Hirds I'al. Tox. , 1;'.(5, pi. xxv. — Hkkkmann', J. A. N. So. II, 18.'.3, 263. C. hrunnckapiUus, (Jray, Genera, I, 1847, 159. — Bp. Consp. , 223. — i>( L. P. A. N. S. , 264. — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858,
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 132 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus. Okay. CACTUS WBEH. I'imlapfrs hnnnifirapilhts, , Ma|;. de Zool. 1835, 61, pi. xl .i.—Lawr. Ann. X. Y. Ly(. Y, ISal, 114. — (Assiv, Hirds I'al. Tox. , 1;'.(5, pi. xxv. — Hkkkmann', J. A. N. So. II, 18.'.3, 263. C. hrunnckapiUus, (Jray, Genera, I, 1847, 159. — Bp. Consp. , 223. — i>( L. P. A. N. S. , 264. — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 355 : Pr. Phil. Acad. 1851», 3, etc. ; Rev. 99. — , P. R. R. X, 1859. — Duessek, ll»is, 1865, 482 (Texas). — Cdopek, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, dl. Sp. Chah. Bill as lonj; us the head. Above brown; darkest on the liead, whieh is unspotted. Feathers on the baik streaked eentrally with white. Beneath , tinj^ed with rusty on the belly ; tiie leathers of the throat and upper parts, and under tail-coverts, with larire. rounded black spots; those of the remain in jj: inider parts with smaller, more linear ones, rhin and line over the eye whit*\ Tail-feathers black beneath, barre<l subter- Uiinallv (the outer one throujrhotit) with white. Iris, redilish-yellow. Len«,'th, 8 inches; win<r, ; tail, ). Hab. Adjacent borders of the T'"nited iStates and Mexico, from the mouth of the Rio Crande to the Valley of the C't»lorado, ;». d to the Pacitic coast of Southern California. Replaced at Cajie St. Lucas by C. ojfiuis. This species is fouiul abundantly along the line of the Iiio Orande and Gila, extending northward some distance, and everywhere conspicuous by its wren-like habits and enormous nest. Habits. The Brown-headed Creeper is a comparatively recent addition to the fauna of the United States, but aj)pears to Ikj common along the southwestern borders of the United States, from the valley of the liio (Jrande to San Diego, in Ualifor
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