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Six specimens were included in the first shipment, and at least 23, taken 

 between the critical dates, were temporarily retained by Xantus, not reach- 

 ing the museum until 1863. 



Since the earlier six were sent on by the author himself as samples for 

 Baird's inspection, one may feel that these have a special claim to typeship, 

 and it is certainly more convenient to give them a preferred status, as has 

 been done here. Three of them are no longer in the museum: these are 

 No. 12958, sent to A. Nehrkorn on Jan. 26, 1886; No. 12959, sent to Alex- 

 ander D. Bache in February 1860; No. 13037, sent to F. Ferrari-Perez in 

 December 1885. 



No. 12957, made the lectotype by Richmond and/or Ridgway, has had 

 the misfortune to have become part of the latter's private collection, and to 

 have had its original label replaced by two labels with incomplete data in 

 Ridgway's hand ! 

 Harporhynchus Bendirei Coues 



American Naturalist 7 (6) : 330 (footnote), fig. 69 (p. 329), June 1873. 

 =Toxostoma bendirei bendirei (Coues). See Van Rossem, Trans, San 



Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 9: 381-382, 1942. 

 100505. Adult male. Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Nov. 9, 1872. 

 Collected by Charles E. Bendire. Received from Elliott Coues (in 

 whose private collection it was No. 2687), who acquired it from Charles 

 E. Bendire. 

 100504. Adult female. Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. July 28, 1872. 

 Collected by Charles E. Bendire. Received from Elliott Coues (in 

 whose private collection it was No. 2688) , who acquired it from Charles 

 E. Bendire. 

 Harporhynchus curvirostris inasculatus Nelson 

 Auk 17 (3) : 269, July 1900. 

 =Toxostoma curvirostre maculatum (Nelson). See Van Rossem, Occas. 



Pap. Mus. Zool., Louisiana State Univ. 21 : 194, 1945. 

 164734. Adult male. Alamos (lat. 27°0r N., long. 108°58' W., fide Van 

 Rossem, op c/f., p. 303), State of Sonora, Mexico. Dec. 23, 1898. Col- 

 lected by Edward A. Goldman. Original number 5989. Received from 

 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Methriopterus curvirostris occidentalis Ridgway 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 5 : 9, June 14, 1882. 

 =Toxostoma curvirostre occidentale (Ridgway). See Hellmayr, Cata- 

 logue of birds of the Americas 7 : 299, 1934. 

 37326. Adult male. Mazatlan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. Entered into 

 the museum register on Apr. 27, 1865. Collected by Andrew J. Grayson. 

 Original number 308. 

 51525. Adult male. Mazatlan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. March 1868. 



Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. 

 52789. Adult male. Tepic, State of Nayarit, Mexico. December 1865. 

 Collected by Andrew J. Grayson. Original number 310. 



