TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 199 



cotypes now in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (where 

 No. 21448) and in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (where No. 75712) . 

 Dacelo nullitorques Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm, and Orn.) : 155, "pi. XLn," 1848. 

 =Halcyon venerata venerata (Gmelin). See Bowdler Sharpe, Catalogue 

 of the birds in the British Museum 17: 288, 289, 1892; Peters, Check- 

 list of birds of the world 5 : 214, 1945. 

 14589. Adult male. Tahiti Island, Society Islands, Oceania. Original 



number 481. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Cassin (U.S. Exploring Expedition 8: 218, 1858) stated that he had 9 

 examples of this species, of which no less than 4 belonged to the collection 

 of the Exploring Expedition; his MS. list, however, indicates that the Ex- 

 pedition got but one. 

 Halcyon concreta peristephes Deignan 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 36 (12) : 428, December 31, 1946. 

 330226. Adult male. Khao Luang (lat. 11°40' N., long. 99°35' E.), a 

 mountain southwest of Prachuap Khiri Khan (Ko Lak), southwestern 

 Siam. October 6, 1930. Collected by Hugh McC. Smith. Original 

 number 4235. 



Family MOMOTIDAE: Motmots 



Genus HYLOMANES Lichtenstem 



Hylomanes momotula obscurus Nelson 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (22) : 1, September 7, 1911. 

 229477. Adult female. Cerro Bruja (not Brujo), Panama Canal Zone 

 (not Panama). June 7, 1911. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. 

 Original number 15049. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 



Genus ELECTRON Gistel 



Electron plalyrhynchus suboles Nelson 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (3) : 5, September 27, 1912. 

 =Electron platyrhynchum minus (Hartert). See Peters, Checklist of 



birds of the world 5 : 222, 1945. 

 232536. Adult male. Santa Cruz de Cana (at elev. 2,000 feet), Depart- 

 ment of Darien, Panama. March 9, 1912. Collected by Edward A. 

 Goldman. Original number 15336. Received from the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 

 Electron platyrhynchum orienlicola Oberholser 

 Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., for 1919, p. 342, 1920. 

 177039. Adult female. Hyutanaham, at the head of navigation on the Rio 

 Purus, State of Amazonas, Brazil. March 16, 1901. Collected by Joseph 

 B. Steere. 



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