TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 517 



40703. Adult male. Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona. May 17, 



1865. Collected by Elliott Coues. Original number 1487. 

 Vireosylvia cinerea Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 3:22 [p. 2 in extra], Feb. 26, 1885. 

 =Vireo magister magister (Lawrence). See Helbnayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 8: 145, 1935. 

 102656 (not 105656). Adult (sex not indicated). Cozumel Island, 



Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of the State of Yucatan, Mexico. 



Jan. 29, 1885. Collected by James E. Benedict and Thomas Lee. Re- 

 ceived from the U.S. Fish Commission. 

 Vireosylvia magister "Baird" Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 10 (1-3) : 20, "Feb.-Mar." 1871. 

 =Vireo magister magister (Lawrence). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 8: 145, 1935. 

 90148. Adult male. Belize District, British Honduras. 1865-1866? 



(entered into the museum register on June 15, 1883). Collected by 



Christopher D. Wood. Original number 38. Received from Carl 



H. Berendt {not Henry Bryant) . 

 Vireosylvia calidris var. doniinicana Lawrence 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1 : 55, Sept. 12, 1878. 

 =Vireo altiloquus barhadensis (Ridgway). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 8: 148, 1935. 



77815. Adult female. Dominica Island, Leeward Islands, Caribbean Sea. 

 1877. Collected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 245. 



77816. Adult male. Dominica Island, Leeward Islands, Caribbean Sea. 

 1877. Collected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 149. 



Lawrence wrote the word "Type" on the label of each of these specimens, 

 but in fact gave a description only of the male, adding "The female differs 

 in no respects from the male." In the circumstances, No. 77815 should 

 perhaps be considered merely a paratype. 

 [Vireosylvia calidris] var. barbadense {sic'\ Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds 

 1 : 359 (in key) , January 1874. 

 =Vireo altiloquus barhadensis (Ridgway). See Bond, Check-list of 



birds of the West Indies, ed. 3, p. 128, 1950. 

 57448. Adult (sex not indicated). Barbados Island, Windward Islands, 

 Caribbean Sea. Entered into the museum register on June 27, 1869. 

 Collected by A. Wildeboer. 

 No. 57448 was the only specimen of this vireo from Barbados in the 

 museum collection in 1874, and therefore the only possible type. 

 Vireosylvia grandior Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 7: 178, Sept. 1, 1884. 

 =Vireo altiloquus grandior (Ridgway). See Bond, Check-list of birds 

 of the West Indies, ed. 3, p. 128, 1950. 



