TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 527 



[Helminthophaga celata] var. obscura Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds 1 : 192 

 (in key) , 202, pi. xi, fig. 6, January 1874. 

 =^Vermivora celata celata (Say). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of 



the Americas 8: 340, 1935. 

 12852. Immature (sex not indicated) . Georgia. Entered into the museum 

 register on Oct. 10, 1859. Collected by H. A. Ward. Received from 

 John Akhurst, a dealer in New York. 

 54882. Immature (sex not indicated). Enterprise, Volusia County, 



Florida, Feb. 18, 1869. Collected by George A. Boardman. 

 Ridgway named no specimen as type, but referred to "several in the 

 collection . . . from the South Atlantic States (Florida, Georgia, etc.)." 

 Apparently at an early date, he wrote "Type of var. obscura, Ridgway" on 

 the label of each of the two listed above. 

 [Helminthophaga ruficapilla] var. gutturalis Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds 1 : 191 

 (in key), January 1874. 

 Vermivora ruficapilla ridgwayi Van Rossem 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 42: 179, June 25, 1929. 

 =Vermivora ruficapilla ridgwayi Van Rossem. See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 8: 343, 1935. 

 10656. Adult male. Fort Tejon, Kern County, California. Entered into 

 the museum register between July 30 and Oct. 25, 1858. Collected by 

 John Xantus. 

 53354. Adult male. "Secret Valley" ("a small park nestled among high 

 hills, with the East Humboldt Mountains proper on the west, and the 

 equally lofty portion of that range known as the 'Clover Mountains' to 

 the eastward," fide Ridgway, in King, Report of the geological explora- 

 tion of the fortieth parallel 4 [3] : 363, 1877) , Pershing County, Nevada. 

 Sept. 6, 1868. Collected by Robert Ridgway. Original number 901. 

 U.S. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel. 

 The label of No. 53354 bears, in Ridgway's hand, the words "Type of var. 

 gutturalis, Ridgw.," evidently written at an early date. This notation does 

 not appear on the label of No. 10656, which, however, is currently a dis- 

 mounted bird lacking its original label, and, moreover, has the throat so 

 distended as not to show the essential character of Ridgway's description 

 ("yellow of throat restricted to a medial stripe, leaving its sides ashy"). 



Vermivora ruficapilla ridgwayi Van Rossem is a new name, based upon 

 the same type specimens, for ^Helminthophaga ruficapilla^ var. gutturalis 

 Ridgway, preoccupied Avithin the genus Vermivora by Compsothlypis gut- 

 turalis Cabanis, 1860. 

 [Helminthophaga ruficapilla] var. ocularis Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds 1:191 

 (in key), January 1874. 



