TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 273 



115927. Immature male. Same data as No. 115926. 



115928. Adult female. Same data as No. 115926. 

 125988. Adult male. Same data as No. 115926. 



Pyrocephalus intercedens Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 17: 366, November 15, 1894. 

 =Pyrocephalus rubinus nanus Gould. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 5 : 93, 1927. 

 77764. Immature male. Indefatigable Island=Santa Cruz Island, 

 Galapagos Islands=Archipielago de Colon, eastern Pacific Ocean ofi 

 Ecuador. August 25-October 16, 1863. Collected by A. Habel. 

 Original number 14. Received from Osbert Salvin. 

 116053. Immature (sex not indicated). Indefatigable Island, Galapagos 

 Islands, eastern Pacific Ocean off Ecuador. April 12, 1888. Collected 

 by Charles H. Townsend. Received from the U.S. Fish Commission. 

 This form was based upon five specimens, of which three belonged to 

 Baur, their collector; of these, at least the adult male, and perhaps the two 

 others, eventually entered the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (Nov. Zool. 

 29:385, 1922) says that the type ("marked and red-labelled as such by 

 Ridgway") is the male and goes on to observe that, since the race was 

 described from supposed differences in color of the female, the female should 

 therefore logically have been made the type. But in fact, intercedens was 

 described in such a way that all of the original five are cotypes, and Ridg- 

 way's illogical red-labeling of the male at a later date is but another example 

 of the thoughtless manner in which lectotypes are often chosen. 

 Pyrocephalus abingdoni Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 17: 367, November 15, 1894. 

 =Pyrocephalus rubinus nanus Gould. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 5 : 93, 1927. 

 116134. Adult male. Abingdon Island=Pinta Island, Galapagos Is- 

 lands=Archipielago de Colon, eastern Pacific Ocean off Ecuador. April 

 16, 1888. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. Received from the U.S. 

 Fish Commission. 

 Pyrocephalus minimus Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 12: 113, February 5, 1890. 

 =Pyrocephalus rubinus dubius Gould. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 

 of the Americas 5 : 93, 94, 1927. 



115961. Adult male. Chatham Island=San Cristobal Island, Galapagos 

 Islands=Archipielago de Colon, eastern Pacific Ocean off Ecuador. 

 April 5, 1888. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. Received from the 

 U.S. Fish Commission. 



115962. Adult male. Chatham Island, Galapagos Islands, eastern Pacific 

 Ocean off Ecuador. April 5, 1888. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. 

 Received from the U.S. Fish Commission. 



