TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 289 



Empidonax timidus Nelson 



Auk 17 (3) : 263, July 1900. 

 =Empidonax albigularis timidus Nelson. See Moore, Auk 57: 379, 380, 



1940. 

 163905. Adult male. El Salto, State of Durango, Mexico. July 17, 1898. 



Collected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. Original 



number 5671. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 E[inpidoiiax]. axillaris Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds 



2: 363 (in key) , January 1874. 

 =Empidonax albigularis axillaris Ridgway. See Moore, Auk 57: 379- 



380, 382-383, 1940. 



42514. Adult female. Orizaba, State of Veracruz, Mexico. July 21, 

 1866. Collected by Adrian L. F. Sumichrast. Original number 226. 



42515. Adult male. Orizaba, State of Veracruz, Mexico. July 15, 1866. 

 Collected by Adrien L. F. Sumichrast. Original number 220. 



80406=42516 (reentry). Adult female. Orizaba, State of Veracruz, 

 Mexico. July 15, 1866. Collected by Adrien L. F. Sumichrast. 

 Original number 217. 

 No. 80406 represents yet another case in which Ridgway made an ex- 

 change between his private collection and the public collection of which 

 he was curator. As usually happened in such a case, the original label was 

 removed from the specimen and presumably destroyed, to be replaced by 

 one of Ridgway's own, upon which the data had been transcribed, not 

 always so accurately or completely as one might wish. Wlien the bird was 

 returned to the museum in 1880, together with many others of similar 

 history, it was unfortunately reentered as No. 80406. 

 Muscicapa fulvifrons Giraud 



Description of sixteen new species of North American birds [p. 9], 

 pi. 2, fig. 2, 1841. 

 =Empidonax fulvifrons fulvifrons (Giraud). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 5: 220, 1927. 

 47691. Adult (sex not indicated). "Texas." "1838." Received from 



Jacob P. Giraud, Jr. 

 See my remarks under Muscicapa texensis Giraud (p. 275) . 

 E[nipidonax]. pygmaeus Coues 



Ibis (2) 1 (4) : 537, October 1865. 

 Mitrephorus pallescens Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 18: 63 (not earlier than March 27), 

 1866. 

 =Empidonax fulvifrons pygmaeus Coues. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 5: 220, 1927. 

 40601. Adult male. Fort Whipple (near Prescott), Yavapai County, 

 Arizona. May 9, 1865. Collected by Elliott Coues. Original 

 number 1423. 



