22 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



=Phalacrocorax pelagicus pelagicus Pallas. See A.O.U., Checklist of 



North American birds, ed. 4, p. 400, 1931. 

 46474. Adult (sex not indicated). Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska. No- 

 vember 1865. Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. Original number 2. 

 46480. Adult female in nuptial plumage. Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska. 



May 1866. Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. Original number 2. 

 52514. Adult female. Kodiak Island, Alaska. June 20, 1868. Collected 



by Ferdinand Bischoff. Original number 18. 

 52516. Adult male in nuptial plumage. Kodiak Island, Alaska. June 16, 



1868. Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. Original number 18. 

 Ridgway in 1884 took the measurements of 11 specimens from "the coast 

 of Alaska, from Norton Sound to Sitka." No type was designated, and the 

 only specimens definitely referred to are those obtained by Bischoff at Sitka 

 and Kodiak. 



The museum had long before received from Bischoff no less than 18 

 examples from Kodiak and Sitka, only six of which were still in the collec- 

 tion in 1884. A seventh skin from Norton Sound had been collected by 

 Pease; the others of the series must have formed part of Dall's collection. 

 Since Bischoff's specimens alone received definite mention at the original 

 description, the types should logically come from among the six, of which 

 three were collected at Kodiak, three at Sitka. Discarding one from each 

 of these places as too immature to have permitted measurement, we may 

 accept as cotypes the four listed above. 



Two of the Sitka birds bear on the old museum label the red disk for- 

 merly used to indicate a type. No. 52514 from Kodiak has on the label 

 in an unidentified hand "robustus Ridg. Type," and on this ground Rich- 

 mond wrote "Type?" in the register after the number in question and later 

 set the specimen aside as the type. However, an immature taken by Nelson 

 at Kegiktowik, No. 78827, has on the label in the same hand "Type juv.,'" 

 and it seems clear that these were selected simply as models for illustration 

 or as typical specimens on which to base descriptions of plumage. The un- 

 known writer is the person who entered into the museum register the collec- 

 tion of which No. 78827 formed part. 

 Phalacrocorax resplendens Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 4: pi. 412, fig. 1, 1838. 

 =Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplendens Audubon. See Peters, Checklist 



of birds of the world 1 : 89, 1931. 

 2004. Adult (sex not indicated). Cape Disappointment, at the mouth of 

 the Columbia River, Pacific County, Washington. October? 1836. 

 Collected by John K. Townsend. Received from Spencer F. Baird, 

 who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 Carbo fucosus Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 268, "pi. LXXii, 

 fig. 2," 1848. 



