TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 89 



Genus SCOLOPAX Linnaeus 



Scolopax celebensis Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 34; 55, March 31, 1921. 

 =Scolopax celebenisis celebensis Riley. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 



the world 2: 279, 1934. 

 226174. Adult male. Rano Rano, (a village at about lat. 1°30' S., long. 

 120°19' E.), central Celebes. December 22, 1917. Collected by 

 Harry C. Raven. Original number 4838. 

 "The only specimen . . . had been badly eaten by ants . . . and made 

 into a rough skeleton. The flight feathers had been left on the wing and 

 some feathers around the base of the bill and the end of the tibia" (Riley, 

 loc. cit. ) . 



Genus EROLIA Vieillot 



Actodromas (Actodromas) Bairdii Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia for 1861, p. 194 (not earlier than 

 July 30), 1861. 

 =Erolia bairdii (Coues). See Peters, Checklist of birds of the world 



2:284,1934. 

 19923. Adult male. Fort Resolution (on the shore of Great Slave Lake, 

 southwest of the mouth of the Slave River), District of Mackenzie, 

 Northwest Territories, Canada. May 19, 1860. Collected by Robert 

 W. Kennicott. Original number 480. 

 Although specimens from numerous localities were mentioned at the 

 original description. No. 19923 must be considered the type, since Coues 

 himself wrote on the original label "Type of the species." 

 Arqiiatella couesi Ridgway 



Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club 5 (3) : 160, July 1880. 

 =Erolia ptilocnemis couesi (Ridgway). See Peters, Checklist of birds 

 of the world 2: 285, 1934. 



65419. Adult female (in summer plumage). Chichagof Harbor, Attu 

 Island, Aleutian Islands. June 21, 1873. Collected by E. P. Heren- 

 deen for William H. Dall. Original number 80. Received from the 

 U.S. Coast Survey. 



65420. Downy young (sex not indicated) . Kiska Harbor, Kiska Island, 

 Aleutian Islands. June 30, 1873. Collected by William H. Dall. Re- 

 ceived from the U.S. Coast Survey. 



Four specimens in different plumages were described in detail by Ridg- 

 way, and on the label of each of these appears the word "Type" in the 

 author's hand. Two of them, however, Nos. 46161 (an unsexed adult in 

 winter plumage) and 73196 (an immature female), are, fide Gabrielsen 

 (ms.) , representatives of E. p. tschuktschorum (Portenko) and can therefore 

 no longer be accorded the status of cotypes. 



