TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 9 



Genus PHOEBETRIA Reichenbach 



Diomedea fiisca Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 4: pi. 407, 1838. 

 Phoebetria palpebrata auduboiii Nichols and Murphy 



Auk 31 (4) : 531, September 30, 1914. 

 =Phoebetria palpebrata huttoni Mathews. See Mathews and Hallstrom, 



Notes on the order Procellariiformes, p. 30, 1943. 

 2718. Adult (sex not indicated). "Near the mouth of the Columbia 



River" {fide Audubon, Ornithological biography 5: 116, 1839)=prob- 



ably the central or southern Pacific Ocean {see Stone, Auk 47: 414, 



1930; A.O.U., Checklist of North American birds, ed. 4, p. 366, 1931). 



Collected by John K. Townsend. Received from Spencer F. Baird, who 



acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 Phoebetria palpebrata auduboni Nichols and Murphy is a new name for 

 Diomedea fusca Audubon 1838 (not Hilsenberg 1822), Vv^ith the same type 

 specimen. 



Family PROCELLARIIDAE: Shearwaters, Fulmars 



Genus FULMARUS Stephens 



Fulmarus Rodgersii Cassin 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 326 (not earlier than June 24), 

 1862. 

 =Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Cassin. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 



theworld 1:47, 1931. 

 21304. Adult in light phase (sex not indicated). Northern Pacific Ocean 

 (not South Indian Ocean). 1855 or 1856. Collected by William 

 Stimpson? U.S. North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition 

 (1853-1856). 

 The oldest label (not original) has "Locality?," but Cassin himself in 

 1861 entered the locality into the museum register as "North Pacific." 

 Procellaria pacifica Audubon 



Ornithological biography 5: 321 [=331], 1839. 

 Fulmarus glacialis glupischa Stejneger 

 Auk 1 (3) : 234, July 1884. 

 =Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Cassin. See Stejneger, loc. cit.; A.O.U., 

 Checklist of North American birds, ed. 4, p. 12 (footnote 2), 1931. 



2750. Adult in light phase (sex not indicated). [Near the mouth of the 

 Columbia River] ? Collected by John K. Townsend. Received from 

 Spencer F. Baird, who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 



2751. Adult in dark phase (sex not indicated). [Near the mouth of the 

 Columbia River] ? Collected by John K. Townsend. Received from 

 Spencer F. Baird, who acquired it from John J, Audubon. 



Audubon had but two cotypes, which he mistakenly believed to represent 

 the adult and the immature. 



