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It seems more than likely that the Committee's decision was based, not on 

 the original specimens, but on the fact that the Farallones, most northern 

 locality shown by the series, were first listed by Ridgway at his description. 

 It is now suggested that No. 82432, the only extant specimen of the original 

 series bearing the nuptial plumes, and thus the only one to agree with the 

 description, be considered the type, with a consequent alteration of the 

 restricted type locality to Cedros Island. 

 Carbo Floridanus Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 3: pi. 252, 1835. 

 =Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus (Audubon). See A.O.U., Checklist of 



North American birds, ed. 4, p. 22, 1931. 

 2002. Adult in nonbreeding plumage (sex not indicated). Florida. Re- 

 ceived from Spencer F. Baird, who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 This specimen, which entered the Baird Collection at the same time as the 

 type of Phalacrocorax resplendens Audubon, is traditionally the type of 

 Audubon's Carbo Floridanus, although the supposition can now be neither 

 proved nor disproved. 



The bird was sent to Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn, in 1880, 

 and was returned to the National Museum on October 15, 1946. 

 Carbo purpuragula Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Om.) : 269, "pi. LXXii," 1848. 

 =Phalacrocorax sulcirostris purpuragula (Peale). See Peters, Checklist 



of birds of the world 1: 87, 1931. 

 15684. Adult male. Manua Bay=:Manawaora Bay, Bay of Islands, North 

 Island, New Zealand. Original number 706. U.S. Exploring Expedi- 

 tion (1838-1842), 

 Peale referred to "specimens," but Cassin's MS. list shows only one, and 

 there is but a single entry for the species in the museum register. 

 Phalacrocorax townsendi Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 4: pi. 412, fig. 2, 1838. 

 =Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt). See Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 way, Water birds of North America 2 (Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 13) : 

 158, 1884. 

 2742. Immature male. Cape Disappointment, at the mouth of the Colum- 

 bia River, Pacific County, Washington. October 8, 1836. Collected 

 by John K. Townsend. Original number 159. Received from Spencer 

 F. Baird, who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 The description of this form was based by Audubon upon two specimens, 

 the second of which was perhaps never in the national collection and is not 

 now known to exist. 



Townsend's original label, as well as Baird's private one, are preserved in 

 an envelope attached to the bird's right tarsus. 

 [Phalacrocorax pelagicus.] robustiis Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water birds of North America 2 (Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool. 13) : 160, (not earlier than July) 1884. 



