Check-list of the Birds of Kansas Part 12

* _Corvus cryptoleucus_ Couch. White-necked Raven. Common summer resident in western two tiers of counties; occasional resident east to Ford County. Locally common winter resident (Finney, Scott, and Sherman counties). One shot at Larned, p.a.w.nee County, about October 25, 1937, by Frank Robl.

No subspecies recognized.

* _Corvus brachyrhynchos._ Crow. Common resident in east, less common in west. Abundant transient and winter resident in central Kansas.

Subspecies in Kansas: _C. b. brachyrhynchos_ Brehm.

_Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus_ Wied. Pinon Jay. Irregular winter visitant, more frequent in west than in east. Reported from Douglas (twice), Sedgwick, Mitch.e.l.l, Clark, Finney, and Kearny counties.

No subspecies recognized.

_Nucifraga columbiana_ (Wilson). Clark Nutcracker. Irregular winter visitant, more frequent in west than in east. Reported from Marshall (twice), Ellis, Lyon, Finney, and Seward counties.

No subspecies recognized.

* _Parus atricapillus._ Black-capped Chickadee. Common resident in entire state except for southern tier of counties, where either rare or absent in summer and locally common in winter.

Subspecies in Kansas: _P. a. atricapillus_ Linnaeus in east, where most specimens are more or less intermediate toward _P. a.

septentrionalis_ Harris, the resident subspecies in the west.

* _Parus carolinensis._ Carolina Chickadee. Common resident in southern tier of counties; taken also in Greenwood County. Reported occurrence in Douglas County is erroneous. Proof of breeding rests on partly grown juveniles taken in Barber County, and on two nests found in Montgomery County by L. B. Carson.

Subspecies in Kansas: _P. c. atricapilloides_ Lunk.

* _Parus bicolor_ Linnaeus. Tufted t.i.tmouse. Common resident in eastern Kansas, west at least to Barber, Harvey, and Cloud counties. Western limit of breeding range poorly known.

No subspecies recognized.

* _Sitta carolinensis._ White-breasted Nuthatch. Uncommon and local resident and winter visitant throughout state. Three positive nesting records, all from Douglas County, by C. D. Bunker, R. F. Miller, and Katherine Kelley.

Subspecies in Kansas: _S. c. carolinensis_ Latham resident in Labette and Montgomery counties; _S. c. nelsoni_ Mearns occurs in at least Morton County, status uncertain; _S. c. cookei_ Oberholser resident and winter visitant in rest of state.

_Sitta canadensis_ Linnaeus. Red-breasted Nuthatch. Uncommon transient and winter resident throughout state.

No subspecies recognized.

_Certhia familiaris._ Brown Creeper. Fairly common transient and winter resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: _C. f. americana_ Bonaparte.

* _Troglodytes aedon._ House Wren. Transient and summer resident, common in east to uncommon in west.

Subspecies in Kansas: _T. a. parkmanii_ Audubon.

_Troglodytes troglodytes._ Winter Wren. Rare or uncommon transient and winter resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: _T. t. hiemalis_ Vieillot.

_Thryomanes bewickii._ Bewick Wren. Resident, common in south, rare in north; status poorly known. Nesting records from Shawnee, Johnson, and Montgomery counties.

Subspecies in Kansas: _T. b. bewickii_ (Audubon) in northern and northeastern part, _T. b. cryptus_ Oberholser in rest of state.

(_T. b. niceae_ Sutton, a questionably valid subspecies, has been reported from Meade and Morton counties.)

* _Thryothorus ludovicia.n.u.s._ Carolina Wren. Resident, common in south, less common to north and west. One record from Hamilton County; status in northwest unknown.

Subspecies in Kansas: _T. l. ludovicia.n.u.s_ (Latham).

* _Telmatodytes pal.u.s.tris._ Long-billed Marsh Wren. Uncommon transient throughout state; known as a breeding bird only from Doniphan County, where Linsdale found several nests and collected a juvenile (KU 12869) with half-grown tail, August 31, 1922.

Subspecies in Kansas: _T. p. dissaeptus_ (Bangs).

* _Cistothorus platensis._ Short-billed Marsh Wren. Uncommon transient and irregular summer resident in east, no records from west. One breeding record: male (KU 29665), female (KU 29666), and their nest with four eggs, eight miles west of Lawrence, Douglas County, August 30, 1950, H. B. Tordoff and G. P. Young.

Subspecies in Kansas: _C. p. stellaris_ (Naumann).

* _Salpinctes obsoletus._ Rock Wren. Common transient and summer resident in west, rare transient in east; eastern limit of breeding range not known. Nests found in Hamilton, Scott, and Logan counties.

Subspecies in Kansas: _S. o. obsoletus_ (Say).

* _Mimus polyglottos._ Mockingbird. Resident throughout state, less common in north, especially in winter.

Subspecies in Kansas: _M. p. polyglottos_ (Linnaeus) in east, _M.

p. leucopterus_ (Vigors) in west (most specimens from Kansas are intermediate between the two subspecies).

* _Dumetella carolinensis_ (Linnaeus). Catbird. Common transient and summer resident throughout state.

No subspecies recognized.

* _Toxostoma rufum._ Brown Thrasher. Common transient and summer resident throughout state; occasional winter resident at least in east.