TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 33 



Genus BRANTA Scopoli 



Bernicla occidentalis Baird 



in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9: 766, 

 1858. 

 =Branta canadensis occidentalis (Baird). See Peters, Checklist of birds 



ofthe world 1:150, 1931. 

 5994. Adult (sex not indicated) . Port Townsend, Jefferson County, 

 Washington. 1857. Collected by George Suckley. 

 Branta canadensis niofiitti Aldrich 

 Wilson Bull. 58 (2) : 96, June 1946. 

 365117. Adult male. Blue Lake (on the Lake Lenore Migratory Bird 

 Refuge), near Coulee City, Grant County, Washington. April 26, 

 1938. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which ob- 

 tained it from V. Clifford, who acquired it from U.S. Game Management 

 Agent R. S. Bach (who in turn had seized the bird from an outlaw 

 hunter) . 

 Bernicla Barnslonii "?(Ross)" Ross 



Canadian Nat. and Geol. 7: 152, April 1862. 

 =Branta canadensis parvipes (Cassin) , fide Aldrich MS. 

 20116. Adult male. Fort Simpson, at the confluence of the Mackenzie and 

 Liard Rivers, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada. 

 May 13, 1860. Collected by Bernard R. Ross. Original number 313, 

 Although this form was not described until April 1862, the name had 

 earlier appeared, in print [loc. cit. 6:441, Dec. 1861) and in a letter to 

 Baird written on June 20, 1860. It was used again when, under the date 

 November 10, 1860, Ross wrote Baird that he had sent a skin of the new 

 bird to Washington. 

 Branta hutchinsii asiatica Aldrich 

 Wilson Bull. 58(2) : 95, June 1946. 

 92827. Adult male. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 

 Bering Sea. June 9, 1883. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 

 Original number 2165. 

 [Branta] minima Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 8: 22, May 6, 1885. 

 =Branta hutchinsii minima Ridgway. See Aldrich, Wilson Bull. 58 (2) : 



95, June 1946. 

 76039. Adult female. Saint Michael (on the southern shore of Norton 

 Sound), western Alaska. September 10, 1877. Collected by Edward 

 W. Nelson. Original number 487. 

 96984. Adult female. Saint Michael, western Alaska. June 7, 1881. 



Collected by Edward W. Nelson. Original number 1952. 

 Ridgway established this form upon a series of unknown length, from 

 which he deduced its range as "Pacific coast of North America, breeding 

 abundantly about the Yukon delta and contiguous shores of Norton Sound, 



