TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 229 



284616. Adult male. Las Palraas, Territory of the Chaco, Argentina. 

 July 23, 1920. Collected by Alexander Wetmore. Original number 

 4549. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Genus PICOIDES Lacepede 



Picoides albidior Stejneger 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. 11 : 168, January 5, 1889. 

 =Picoides tridactylus albidior Stejneger. See Hartert, Vogel der pala- 



arktischen Fauna 2: 932, 1912. 

 110000. Adult male. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Kamchatka District, 

 Far-Eastern Region, U.S.S.R. Entered into the museum register on 

 December 20, 1886. Collected by J. E. Hunter. 

 The name Picoides albidior Stejneger first appeared in 1885 (U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 29: 321) as a new name for Picus tridactylus of Kittlitz, not 

 Linnaeus, and for Picoides crissoleucos "Brandt" Taczanowski, not Reichen- 

 bach. Stejneger had at the time never seen a Kamchatkan example of this 

 woodpecker ; the types of his new name were therefore the five Kamchatkan 

 males discussed by Taczanowski and whatever Kamchatkan specimens may 

 have been described by Kittlitz (original citation not seen by me). 



In 1886 Stejneger obtained a specimen of his own, and in 1889 published 

 a "brief formal diagnosis" of Picoides albidior based upon this specimen. 

 No. 110000 is thus the holotype of the name Picoides albidior Stejneger, 

 1889, but has no connection with Picoides albidior Stejneger, 1885. Indeed, 

 despite the fact that Stejneger in 1889 referred to his bird as the type. No. 

 110000 is, from my point of view, simply a topotype which served as the 

 basis for a superfluous description. 



Although Stejneger, in 1885, gave no description of the Kamchatkan race, 

 he referred distinctly to Taczanowski's paper, where a sufficiently complete 

 diagnosis is to be found. The original citation for this form should there- 

 fore read: 



Picoides albidior Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 29: 321 (not earlier than 

 July), 1885. New name for Picoides crissoleucos "Brandt" Taczanowski, 

 1882, not Aplerniis crissoleucus "Brandt" Reichenbach, 1854. 

 [Picoides Americaniis] var. fasciatus Baird 



in Cooper, Geol. Surv. California, Orn. 1: 385 (not earlier than Octo- 

 ber) , 1870. 

 =Picoides tridactylus fasciatus Baird. See A.O.U. Checklist of North 



American Birds, ed. 4, p. 200, 1931. 

 27126 {not 29126). Adult male. Fort Simpson (at the confluence of the 

 Liard River with the Mackenzie), District of Mackenzie, Northwest 

 Territories, Canada. September 2, 1861. Collected by Bernard R. 

 Ross. Original number 1204. 



