TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 25 



The original series consisted of three Wiirdemann-taken specimens. No. 

 9479, an immature from "Florida," was long ago destroyed. No. 6539, 

 collected at Indian Key, Florida, on March 21, 1857, was destroyed as a 

 skin, but the skull and the bones of legs and wings have been preserved as 

 No. 9969 of the osteological collection. 

 Ardea occidentalis Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 3: pi. 281, 1835; Ornithological biography 



3:542,1835. 

 :=^Ardea occidentalis occidentalis Audubon. See Peters, Checklist of 



birds of the world 1 : 100, 1931. 

 1985. Immature (sex not indicated). Keys near Key West, Monroe 



County, Florida. April or May 1832. Received from Spencer F. 



Baird, who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 It is not now known which of the two citations for this name saw earlier 

 publication. If the former, the type specimen must be the first bird shot 

 by Audubon himself and used as model for his plate; if the latter, there 

 must have been 15 or more cotypes. Assuming that the second hypothesis 

 is correct, the specimen here listed is certainly one of the cotypes; it also 

 is quite possibly the one figured in Birds of America. It should be noted 

 that Richmond, who, whenever possible, ignored cotypes, left a MS. note 

 saying: "See N.M. :;^1985, as probable type," but gave no explanation of 

 his decision. 



Genus BUTORIDES Blyth 



Ardea virescens anthonyi Mearns 

 Auk 12 (3) : 257, July 1895. 



=Butorides virescens anthonyi (Mearns) . See Peters, Checklist of birds 

 oftheworld 1:103, 1931. 



135576. Adult male. Seven Wells, Salton River, State of Baja Cali- 

 fornia, Mexico, near Monument No. 213 of the Mexican-United States 

 Boundary Line (5 miles south of the U.S. boundary and 24 miles west 

 of the Colorado River, fide Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 32: 31, 

 1928). April 12, 1894. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original 

 number 10529. Mexican-United States International Boundary Com- 

 mission. 

 Butorides virescens eremonomus Oberholser 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 42: 546, August 29, 1912. 



=Butorides virescens anthonyi (Mearns). See Peters, Checklist of birds 

 oftheworld 1:103, 1931. 



124540. Adult male. San Diego, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. June 11, 

 1891. Collected by Frank Robinette. 

 Butorides satiiratus Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 577, August 6, 1888. 



=Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus). See Wetmore, in Fisher 

 and Wetmore, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 79: 4, 1931. 



