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According to Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, for 1899, pp. 12, 13, 

 1899) : "Nuttall returned in October, 1835, via Hawaii and Califor- 

 nia .... Townsend . . . apparently sent home by Nuttall all the speci- 

 mens he had obtained up to the date of his departure, as the collection was 

 in Philadelphia in 1836." But Townsend himself (Narrative of a journey 

 across the Rocky Mountains, p. 233, 1839) has stated that Nuttall left him 

 a few days prior to Oct. 1, 1835. He could not, then, have brought to 

 Philadelphia a bird collected four weeks later. 



Audubon, however, was often inexact even as to the dates of his own 

 activities, and Stone may have been mistaken in supposing that all of the 

 birds named by Townsend in 1837 were transported to Philadelphia by 

 Nuttall (as he was mistaken in the date of Nuttall's parting from Town- 

 send). In the circumstances, No. 2918 may continue to hold the role 

 assigned it by museum tradition. 

 Dendrceca niveiventris Salvin 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1863 (2) : 187, pi. 24, fig. 2, August 1863. 

 =^Dendroica occidentalis (Townsend) . See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 8: 395, 1935. 

 30681. Adult male. Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. December 1861. 



Collected by Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuC. Godman. Original 



number 232. Received from Osbert Salvin. 

 This name was established upon a series of three cotypes from Guatemala, 

 two of which are presumably now in the British Museum (Natural History) . 

 The label of our bird was marked, by Salvin, "Type Specimen," but the 

 small amount of nigrescence on its nape shows that it cannot have been 

 the model for the colored plate. 

 Dendroica Dominica, var. albilora "Baird" Ridgway 



American Naturalist 7 (10) : 606, October 1873. 

 =Dendroica dominica albilora Ridgway. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 8 : 399, 1935. 

 61136. Adult "female" (apparently male). Belize, British Honduras. 



1866? Collected by Christopher D. Wood, for Karl H. Berendt. 



Original number 24. Received from Henry Bryant, in whose private 



collection it was No. 518. 

 7701. Adult female. Rockport, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. May 10, 1849. 



Collected by Jared P. Kirtland. 

 Ridgway had a series of unstated length, which might now be impossible 

 to reconstruct. No. 61136 was, fortunately, specifically mentioned as a 

 typical specimen, and, on the label of No. 7701, the author wrote " $ ad. 

 Type." 



No. 61136 reached us in 1870, in the course of distribution of the Bryant 

 Collection. It may be noted that its history has been similar to that of 

 No. 74626, a cotype of Dendroica Vieillotii, var. Bryanti Ridgway. I have, 

 up to now, been unsuccessful in tracing the relationships that existed between 

 Bryant, Berendt, and the Smithsonian Institution. 



