TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 221 



Genus SPHYRAPICUS Baiid 



Sphyrapicus varius appalachiensis Ganier 

 Migrant 25(3) : 40, pL, October 22, 1954. 

 457395. Adult male. Stratton Gap (at elev. 4350 feet), Unicoi Moun- 

 tains, Monroe County, Tennessee. June 21, 1946. Collected by Al- 

 bert F. Ganier. Received from Albert F. Ganier, in whose private 

 collection it was No. 1426. 

 Picus williamsoni Newberry 



Rep. Expl. Surv. R.R. Pac. 6 (4) : 89, pi. 34 (upper fig.), 1857. 

 =Sphyrapicus thyroideus thyroideus (Cassin). See Ridgway, Birds of 

 North and Middle America 6:286,289, 1914; A.O.U., Checklist of 

 North American birds, ed. 4, p. 193, 1931. 

 9344. Adult male. "In the pine forest bordering upper Klamath lake on 

 the east," Klamath County, Oregon. August 23, 1855. Collected by 

 John S. Newberry. Pacific Railroad Survey, The Sacramento Valley 

 to the Columbia River. 

 Newberry gave no verbal description of his bird, but the colored figure 

 serves to validate the name. The first proper diagnosis was given by Baird 

 (Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9: 105, 1858) ; if it should ever be shown 

 that Newberry's plate 34 was antedated by Baird's description, the name 

 must of course be accredited to Baird. 



Genus VENILIORNIS Bonaparte 



Veniliornis kirkii darienensis Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24 (9) : 33, February 24, 1911. 

 =Veniliornis kirkii cecilii (Malherbe) . See Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool. 78:331, 1935. 

 150795. Adult male. On the banks of the Rio Pirri, El Real de Santa 

 Maria, Province of Darien, Panama. September 3, 1889. Collected 

 by H. T. Heyde and Ernesto Lux. Original number 189. 



Genus DENDROCOPOS Koch 



Dendrocopos purus Stejneger 

 Auk 1 (1): 35, January 1884. 

 =Dendrocopos major kamtschaticus (Dybowski) . See Hartert, Vogel der 

 palaarktischen Fauna 2:907, 1912; Peters, Checklist of birds of the 

 world 6: 184,1948. 



92701. Adult male. Ladiginsk, Bering Island, Commander Islands, Ber- 

 ing Sea between Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. May 9, 1883. 

 Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Original number 2024. 



92702. Adult male. Saranna, Bering Island, Commander Islands, Bering 

 Sea between Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. May 8, 1883. Col- 

 lected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Original number 2019. 



