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111270. Adult male. Swan Island, Caribbean Sea at lat. 17°30' N., long. 

 84° 00' W. April 14, 1887. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. Orig- 

 inal number 1866. 



Contopus Veliei Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 18: 61, March 1866. 

 =^Contopus sordidulus veliei Coues. See Phillips and Parkes, Condor 



57: 246, 1955. 

 36938. Adult male. Fort Whipple (near Prescott), Yavapai County, 

 Arizona. August 10, 1864. Collected by Elliott Coues. Original num- 

 ber 522. 

 The number of cotypes is unknown, and most of them are probably no 

 longer in the collection; even Dr. Velio's "first example from the mountains 

 of Colorado Territory" is not now to be found in Washington. No. 36938 

 is a lectotype, chosen by Coues, at Richmond's prompting, long after publi- 

 cation of the name. It should be mentioned that Phillips and Parkes {op. 

 cit., p. 245) consider Dr. Velio's lost specimen to be the only possible type 

 Contopus schottii Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 9 (6) : 202, May 1869. 

 =Contopus cinereiis brachytarsus (Sclater). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 

 of birds of the Americas 5: 198, 1927; A.O.U. Committee on Classifica- 

 tion and Nomenclature, Auk 64: 449-450, 1947. 

 37695. Adult (sex not indicated). Merida, State of Yucatan, Mexico. 

 February 21, 1865. Collected by Arthur C. V. Schott. Original num- 

 ber 205. Comision Cientifica de Yucatan. 

 Contopus depressirostris Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 6: 403 (footnote) , April 26, 1884. 

 ==Contopus cinereus brachytarsus (Sclater). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 

 birds of the Americas 5: 198, 1927; A.O.U. Committee on Classification 

 and Nomenclature, Auk 64: 449-450, 1947. 

 91235. Adult male. Hacienda "Los Sabalos" (on the Rio San Juan, about 

 30 miles from the east shore of Lake Nicaragua), Department of Chon- 

 1 tales, Nicaragua. May 8, 1883. Collected by Charles C. Nutting. 



Original number 883. 

 91234. Adult female. Hacienda "Los Sabalos," Department of Chontales, 

 Nicaragua. May 2, 1883. Collected by Charles C. Nutting. Original 

 number 830. 

 Contopus cinereus aithalodes Wetmore 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 134 (9) : 65, July 8, 1957. 

 460992. Adult male. Coiba Island, Pacific Ocean off the Province of 

 Veraguas, Panama. January 19, 1956. Collected by Alexander Wet- 

 more. Original number 20326. 



