528 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



=Vermivora ruficapilla ruficapilla (Wilson). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 8: 342, 1935. 

 35030. Adult (sex not indicated). Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. June 

 1864. Collected by Robert Kennicott. Received from the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences. 

 Ridgway based this race upon "Chicago specimens," and wrote "Type of 

 var. ocularis, Ridgway" on the label of the sole Chicago-taken skin that 

 seems ever to have been in the Washington collection. One may suppose, 

 however, that he had borrowed material from the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, from which this skin had been obtained in 1864, and that our bird 

 was therefore only a cotype; it is doubtful, nevertheless, whether any other 

 of the original series has survived to this day. 

 Helminthophaga virginiae Baird 



in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Birds of North America, atlas, p. xi, 

 pi. 79, fig. 1, 1860. 

 =Vermivora virginiae (Baird). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of 



the Americas 8: 343, 1935. 

 10719. Adult male. Cantonment Burgwyn, Taos County, New Mexico. 

 Autumn of 1858. Collected by William W. Anderson. 

 Helminthophaga luciae Cooper 



Proc. California Acad. Nat. Sci. 2:120 (not earlier than July 7), 

 1861. 

 =Vermivora luciae (Cooper). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of the 



Americas 8:344, 1935. 

 31892. Adult male. Fort Mojave, Mohave County, Arizona. Apr. 5, 

 1861. Collected by James G. Cooper. Original number 179. Re- 

 ceived from the Geological Survey of California. 

 Cooper's name was established upon a series of five males and one female, 

 but only No. 31892 came to Washington. Nothing is known to me of the 

 fate of the remaining cotypes. 



Genus PARULA Bonaparlc 



Compsothlypis americana ranialiiias Ridgway 



Birds of North and Middle America 2 : 486, Oct. 16, 1902. 

 =Parula americana (Linnaeus). See Parkes, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 33: 



165-166, 1954. 

 152380. Adult male. "Gallaghers," near San Antonio, Bexar County, 

 Texas, June 10, 1890. Collected by Henry P. Attwater. Original 

 number 106. 

 Ridgway had no less than 26 males and 3 females before him when he 

 named ramalinae, and failed to designate any one of them as the type. No. 

 152380, however, was found by me in the general collection in 1941, carry- 

 ing only Attwater's original label, upon which Ridgway had written, prob- 

 ably in 1902, "Type of Compsothlypis americana/ ramalinae Ridgway." 



