TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 85 



=Aechmorhynchus parvirostris (Peale). See Wetmore, in Townsend 

 and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 63: 182-183, 1919. 



15319. Adult (sex not indicated). Honden Island=Pukapuka Island 

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

 21, 1839. Collected by Titian R. Peale. Original number 640. U.S. 

 Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



15721. Adult (sex not indicated). Same data as No. 15319. 



15722. Adult female. Same data as No. 15319. 



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

 Peale had five specimens. Of the two no longer in the collection, No. 

 57426 was sent in 1870 to the Chicago Academy of Sciences and was doubt- 

 less destroyed in the Great Fire; No. 15322 went to the Boston Society of 

 Natural History and eventually reached the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, where it became No. 72156. 



Peale mentioned that the species was also "observed" at Raraka, another 

 of the Tuamotus, which was visited on August 30, 1839, but there is no 

 reason to believe that any specimen was collected there. 



Genus NUMENIUS Brisson 



Numenius fenioralis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 233, "pi. lxvi, fig. 1," 

 1848. 

 =Numenius tahitiensis (Gmelin). See Bowdler Sharpe, Catalogue of 

 the birds in the British Museum 24: 367, 1896. 



15377. Adult female. Vincennes Island=Kauehi Island {ca. lat. 16°00' 

 S., long. 145 °09' W.), Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. September 1839. 

 Original number 633. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



15378. Adult female. Same data as No. 15377. 



15379. Adult female. Same data as No. 15377. 



15380. Adult female. Same data as No. 15377. 

 15727. Adult male. Same data as No. 15377. 



Cassin's MS. list and the museum register indicate that Peale had five 

 specimens of this form. Stejneger (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 84, 1887) has 

 referred to No. 15379 as the type; Richmond (ms.) says "the male ought to 

 have precedence in this respect," and so designates No. 15727 as the type. 

 All five are of course cotypes. 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson 



Limosa foxii Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 231, "pi. Lxv," 1848. 

 =Limosa lapponica novaezealandiae G. R. Gray, fide Deignan (ms.). 

 15367. Adult (sex not indicated). Rose Island (lat. 14°31'30" S., long. 

 168°08'30" W.), Samoan Islands, Oceania. Collected by J. L. Fox. 

 Original number 630. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



