TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 231 



=Picoides arcticus (Swainson). See A.O.U., Checklist of North 



American Birds, ed. 4, p. 199, 1931. 

 7973. Adult male. "Hudson's Bay"=On the eastern declivity of the 

 Rocky Mountains, near the sources of the Athabaska River (at lat. 57° 

 N.), Province of Alberta, Canada. 1826 or 1827. Collected by 

 Thomas Drummond (see Richardson, in Swainson and Richardson op. 

 cit.. Introduction, p. xv) . Original number 84. Received from John 

 Gould. 

 The female cotype. No. 7974 (original number 84A, but with all other 

 data the same as for No. 7973), was sent to Oberlin College on March 21, 

 1888. Dr. Lynds Jones has informed me, in a letter dated March 22, 1942, 

 that this specimen was destroyed long ago. 



Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES Blyth 



Chrysocolaptes festiviis tanlus Ripley 



Spolia Zeylanica 24 (3) : 214, November 8, 1946. 

 375928. Adult female. Embilipitiya (about lat. 6°21' N., long. 80°5r 

 E.), Southern Province, Ceylon. February 11, 1944. Collected by 

 E. C. Fernando. Original number 105. 



Genus PHLOEOCEASTES Cabanis 



Scapaneus giiatemalensis nelsoni Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24: 34, February 24, 1911. 



=Phloeoceastes guatemalensis nelsoni (Ridgway). See Peters, Check- 

 list of birds of the world 6: 228, 1948. 



185526. Adult male. El Rincon, State of Guerrero, Mexico. May 8, 

 1903. Collected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. 

 Original number 9768. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 



Genus CAMPEPHILUS G. R. Gray 



Campephilus Bairdii Cassin 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 322 (not earlier than November 

 24) , 1863 or (not later than February 12) , 1864. 

 =Campephilus principalis bairdii Cassin. See Bond, Checklist of birds 

 of the West Indies, p. 83, 1945. 



23570. Adult male. Monte Verde, Province of Oriente, Cuba. Septem- 

 ber 16, 1861. Collected by Charles Wright. 



23571. Adult female. Same data as No. 23570. 



In the original description, Cassin referred to specimens in the collection 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences, presented by Richard C. Taylor, but 

 only one (No. 19610) seems now to exist there. It is, of course, a cotype. 

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