TYPE SPECEVIENS OF BIRDS 17 



53696 (=84752). Adult male. Pyramid Lake, Washoe County, Nevada. 



May 28, 1868. Collected by Robert Ridgway. Original number 766. 



U.S. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel. 



No. 53696 left the museum and entered Ridgway's private collection as 



his No. 1934; at this time, in accordance with his custom, all older labels 



were removed and the data were transcribed onto one of his private labels 



(which is now its only label). The specimen was eventually returned to 



the museum and erroneously reentered into the register on July 21, 1881, as 



No. 84752. 



The reverse side of the label bears in Ridgway's hand the words: "Type 

 of Pelecanus occipitalis, Ridgw., Am./ Sportsman, Aug. 8, 1874, p. 297. 

 =AduIt, after/casting the nuptial rest and the horny excres-/cence of the 

 culmen!" 

 Pelecanus (fuscus?) calif oriiicus Ridgway 



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

 Mus. Comp. Zool. 13) : 132, 143 (not earlier than July), 1844. 

 =Pelecanus occidentalis calijornicus Ridgway. See Grinnell, Univ. 



California Publ. Zool. 38: 315, 1932. 

 4526. Adult female. San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. 

 November 1855. Collected by John S. Newberry. Pacific Railroad 

 Survey, The Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River. 

 9958. Adult male. San Francisco Bay, California. March 25, 1858. 



Collected by Robert S. Williamson. 

 86384. Adult male. La Paz, State of Baja California, Mexico. February 



24, 1882. Collected by Lyman Belding. 

 No type was designated at the original description, but we know that 

 Ridgway had five specimens from localities on the "Coast of California, 

 from San Francisco Bay to Cape St. Lucas." 



In addition to the three here listed, there was No. 9959, from San Diego, 

 which was long ago sent to the University of Michigan; the fifth cannot 

 now be traced, unless it is No. 90035, a head collected by Belding at San 

 Jose in Baja California. 



No. 86384 has been made the lectotype by Grinnell {loc. cit.), but all 

 the specimens mentioned above are nevertheless cotypes. 

 Pelecanus occidentalis urinator Wetmore 

 Auk 62 (4) : 582, Oct. 19, 1945. 

 376743. Adult male in nuptial plumage. Hood Island, southernmost of 

 the Galapagos Islands, eastern Pacific Ocean off Ecuador. June 23, 

 1906. Collected by Edward W. Gifford. Original number 2953. Re- 

 ceived from the California Academy of Sciences, where it was No. 2797. 



