189y.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 25 



Pygoptila margaritata (Scl.)- 



Mljrmecizifj margarltatu Scl. P. Z. S., 1854, p. 253. 



8,111. (^ Peru, from Verreaux. Type. 

 Saltator atripennis Scl. 



Saltator atripennis Scl. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 185(5, p. 261. 



7.800. (f ""Popayan, N. Granada." Rivoli coll. Type. 



7.801. (^ " Popaj'au, N. Granada." Eivoli coll. 

 Helodytes humilis Scl. 



(Jampylovliynchus humilis Scl. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, p. 263. 

 24,496. cf Mazatlan. Bell. 

 23,908. "California." Dr. Gambel. 



Henry Bryant, 



Tachycineta cyaneoviridis (Biyaut). 



Jlirxudo cydneoviridis Bryant. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vii (1859), 

 p. 111. 



15,6S9. Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas. Pres. hy Dr. Bryant, 1860. 

 Type. 



Most of Dr. Bryant's types are presumably in the collection of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, but this specimen was sent 

 to the Academy immediately after it was described, and is distinctly 

 marked as the type. 



W. T. ^March. 



jNIarch described Mimiis htllii in the Academy's ProceediiKjs 

 in 18(>3, but his type is in the U. S. National Museum, 



Samuel Cabot, Jr. 

 PsilorMnus mexicanus RCipp. 



Corvus vociferus Cabot, Jour. Bost. Soc. N. H., iv (1844), p. 464. 

 3.096. Yucatan. Tyjje. 



This is tlie only one of Cabot's specimens in the Academy, and is 

 marked by Prof. Baird as the type. 



John Krider. 



The well-known gunmaker and taxidermist of Philadelphia, 

 though a great collector, was not much of a contributor to ornitho- 

 logical literature, and the only species described by him was the 

 following, which proves to be merely a partly melanistic Common 

 Quail : 

 Colinus virginianus (L.). 



Ortyx virginidnus var. hoopcsi Krider. Forest and Stream, Vol. xvi, 

 p. 243. 



12,391. J. Krider. Type. 



