526 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Genus VERMIVORA Swainson 



Sylvia Bachmanii Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 2 (37) : pi. 185, 1833. 

 =Vermivora bachmanii (Audubon). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 8: 338, 1935. 

 2903. Adult male. Near Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina. 



Summer of 1833 {fide Audubon, Ornithological biography 2: 483, 



1834) . Collected by John Bachman. Received from Spencer F. Baird, 



who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 [Helminthophaga celata] var. lutescens Ridgway 



American Journal of Science and Arts (3) 4 (24) : 457 (footnote), 



December 1872. 

 =Vermivora celata lutescens (Ridgway). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 8: 341, 1935. 



58410. Adult male. Fort Kenai (at the mouth of the Kenai River), 

 Kenai Peninsula, southern Alaska. May 26, 1869. Collected by Ferdi- 

 nand Bischoff. Collins Overland Telegraph Company Expedition. 



58411. Adult male. Fort Kenai, Alaska. May 22, 1869. Collected by 

 Ferdinand Bischoff. Collins Overland Telegraph Company Expedition. 



58412. Adult male. Fort Kenai, Alaska. May 26, 1869. Collected by 

 Ferdinand Bischoff. Collins Overland Telegraph Company Expedition. 



Ridgway, at the first incomplete description of lutescens, referred to no 

 particular skins, but gave the range as "Pacific Coast, from Radiak [sic] to 

 Cape San Lucas." In the formal description (Amer. Naturalist 7:606, 

 October 1873), he described male, female, and young of the year, but again 

 left us in doubt as to the proveniences and even the number of birds in his 

 series. No. 58410 was long afterward set aside, probably by Richmond, as 

 a lectotype, but this action represented in fact merely a restriction of type 

 locality, and I list here accordingly the three out of four cotypes from the 

 restricted type locality still in the museum. No. 58413, a male, seems to 

 have vanished without trace. No. 58412 at some time became part of 

 Ridgway's private collection, suffered the loss of its original label, and 

 carries, in Ridgway's hand, the erroneous date "May 24." 

 Helminthophila celata sordida C. H. Townsend 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 13: 139, Sept. 9, 1890. 

 =Vermivora celata sordida (Townsend). See Grinnell, Univ. California 



Publ. Zool. 38: 299, 1932. 

 117606. Adult male. San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County, Cali- 

 fornia. January 25, 1889. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. Re- 

 ceived from the U.S. Fish Commission. 

 Vermivora celata oreslera Oberholser 

 Auk 22 (3): 243, July 1905. 

 186782. Adult male. Willis, San Miguel County, New Mexico. July 16, 

 1903. Collected by Vernon 0. Bailey. Original number 1007. Re- 

 ceived from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



