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Ridgway's series, of unknown length, included specimens from Sacramento 

 and San Diego, but he observed that "the extreme development of the char- 

 acters distinguishing C. henshawi is seen in specimens from Walker's Basin 

 and the Tejon Mts., collected by Mr. H. W. Henshaw." There were originally 

 six skins from this restricted area. In addition to the four listed above, there 

 were No. 71983, an adult male, sent on March 1, 1877, to Osbert Salvin, and 

 No. 71985, an adult male, sent to Henshaw on February 24, 1877; each of 

 these is probably now in the collection of the British Museum. 



On the label of No. 71986, considered the type by Richmond and Grinneil, 

 is found, in Ridgway's hand: " $ type of C. fasciata henshawi Ridgw." 

 Inasmuch as we can be certain that on the label of one of the London 

 specimens will be found a similar reference to the " $ type," and that, had 

 it remained in Washington, this bird would have been set aside by Richmond 

 as the type, it is obvious that the choice of No. 71986 was not fairly made; 

 in any case, each one of the series is an equivalent cotype. 



No. 71982 at some time entered the private collection of Pierre L. Jouy 

 (where it was No. 596) ; when it returned to the museum, it bore only 

 Jouy's own label, and was given, on December 12, 1907, the new number 

 of 202915. 



Family CHLOROPSEIDAE: Leafbirds, Fairy Bluebirds 



Genus AEGITHINA VieiUot 



Aegithina viridissima nesiotica Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 10, Oct. 26, 1912. 

 =Aegithina viridissima viridissima (Bonaparte). See Ripley, Bull. Mus. 



Comp.Zool. 94:385, 1944. 

 179989. Adult male. Pulau Tana Bala, Batu Group, Barussan Islands, 



eastern Indian Ocean off Sumatra. February 5, 1903. Collected by 



William L. Abbott. 

 Aegithina viridissima thapsina Oberholser 



U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 98: 5 (in checklist), 40, June 30, 1917. 

 170951. Adult male. Pulau Siantan, Anamba Islands, South China Sea. 



August 20, 1899. Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 Aegithina tiphia horizoplera Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 9, Oct. 26, 1912. 

 180934. Adult male. Telok Beluku, Nias Island, Barussan Islands, eastern 



Indian Ocean off Sumatra. March 3, 1905. Collected by William L. 



Abbott. 

 Aegithina tiphia micromelaena Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 76 (6) : 7, July 16, 1923. 

 =Aegithina tiphia horizoptera Oberholser. See Meyer de Schauensee and 



Ripley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 91 : 346, 1939. 

 180548. Adult male. Tanjong Tedong, Bangka Island (just east of south- 

 ern Sumatra) . June 5, 1904. Collected by William L. Abbott. 



