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15725. Adult male (in nuptial plumage). Tahiti, Society Islands, 

 Oceania. Original number 639. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838- 

 1842) . 



15384. Adult female (in winter plumage). Upolu Island (lat. 13°46' S., 

 long. 171°20' W.), Samoan Islands, Oceania. Original number 639. 

 U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



15385. Adult female (in winter plumage). Honden Island=Pukapuka 

 Island (lat. 14°56' S., long. 138°48' W.), Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. 

 Original number 639. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



Cassin's MS. list and the entries in the museum register indicate that Peale 

 had nine specimens, of which only four are here listed. Nos. 15383, 15386, 

 and 15398 are no longer to be found in the collection, but one of these must 

 be the cotype now preserved in the Museum of Comparative Zoology as No. 

 75668. Nos. 15723 and 15726 were sent to the Chicago Academy of Sci- 

 ences in 1870 and were later destroyed in the Great Fire. No. 15725 was 

 sent to the same institution in 1881, but was returned to the National 

 Museum in 1919. 



Peale stated that his descriptions and measurements were taken from the 

 largest specimens, and that the male was from the Fijis, the female from 

 Dog Island. Richmond selected No. 15724, a male from the Fijis, as the 

 type, but it cannot be shown that this specimen is larger than some of the 

 missing birds (one a male, two without indication of sex) from localities 

 now unknown. Likewise, No. 15385, a female from Dog Island, may not be 

 larger than the missing No. 15398, which bore identical data, to say nothing 

 of the two lost skins for which we have neither locality nor sex. 



Under the circumstances, while some of the birds still in existence may 

 really be cotypes, we can be certain only of their paratypeship. 



Genus APHRIZA Audubon 



Charadrius Winterfeldti von Tschudi 

 Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 9 : 388, 1843. 

 =Aphriza virgata (Gmelin). See Friedmann and Deignan, Zoologica, 



New York, 27: 49, 1942. 

 41933. Adult (sex not indicated). "In Oceani Magni littoribus"= Val- 

 paraiso, Aconcagua Province, Chile {fide museum register). Col- 

 lected by Johann J. von Tschudi. Received from the Neuchatel 

 Museum. 

 The label of the Neuchatel Museum cannot now be found, but the speci- 

 men was entered into the register as "Charadrius winterfeldtii" from "Val- 

 paraiso," and these data must have been copied from it. 



Genus COENOCORYPHA G. R. Gray 



Scolopax Holmesii "T. R. Peale MS." Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 229 (in synonymy 

 under Gallinago aucklandica) , 1848. 

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