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88989. Adult male. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 

 Bering Sea. June 9, 1882. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 

 Original number 1174. 



88992. Adult male. Bering Island, Commander Islands, June 10, 1882. 

 Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Original number 1194. 



89134. Adult male. Copper Island, Commander Islands. June 18, 1882. 

 Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Original number 1211. 



89135. Adult female. Copper Island, Commander Islands. June 24, 

 1882. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Original number 1231. 



Ridgway had six cotypes, of which three (Nos. 88992, 89134, and 89135) 

 were mentioned by number at the original description; since, however, 

 Richmond's lectotype. No. 88989, was not mentioned there at all, it is clear 

 that all six should be considered equivalent. Nos. 88990 and 88991, both 

 males, are no longer in the collection ; they were "returned" to the collector 

 in September 1885, and their present whereabouts is unknown. 

 Authus spinoletta geophilus Oberholser 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 36 (11): 388, Nov. 20, 1946. 

 298525. Adult male. False Pass, Unimak Island, Fox Group, Aleutian 

 Islands, Alaska. May 14, 1925. Collected by Olaus J. Murie. Original 

 number 2950. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Alauda Spragueii Audubon 



Birds of America 7: 334, pi. 486, 1844. 

 =Anthus spragueii (Audubon). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of 



the Americas 8: 86, 1935. 

 1884. Adult female. "Prairies near Fort Union" (near the confluence of 

 the Yellowstone River v/ith the Missouri), Williams or McKenzie 

 County, North Dakota. June 19, 1843. Received from Spencer F. 

 Baird (of whose private collection it once formed part), who acquired 

 it from John J. Audubon. 

 No. 1884 is no doubt one of the cotypes, although it might be argued that, 

 since a male was minutely described by Audubon, the male cotype in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (where it is No. 23733) has 

 an even stronger claim. There is, however, a possibility that Baird indicated 

 the sex erroneously in his register, as he has done the date of collection 

 ("June 13"). 



Conflicting accounts of the first discovery of this bird have been brought 

 together and discussed by Francis H. Aflen (Auk 68: 379-380, 1951). 



Tlie exact locality for birds described from "Fort Union" is uncertain. 

 Preble (ms.) has found that the military reservation would at the present 

 time lie partly in Montana and partly in North Dakota, but that more than 

 one-half of its buildings stood in what is now North Dakota; the type locality 



