TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 565 



74124. Adult male. Grenada Island, Windward Islands, Caribbean Sea. 

 April 1878. Collected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 565. 



74126. Adult female. Grenada Island, Caribbean Sea. April 1878. Col- 

 lected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 566. 

 Quiscalus insularis Richmond 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 18: 675, Aug. 12, 1896. 



=Quiscalus lugubris insularis Richmond, fide Deignan (ms.). 



151733. Adult male. Margarita Island, Caribbean Sea ofF the State of 

 Sucre, Venezuela. July 3, 1895. Collected by Wirt Robinson. Orig- 

 inal number 407. 



Genus CASSIDIX Lesson 



Scaphidurus major nelsoni Ridgway 



Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 3: 151, Apr. 15, 1901. 

 ==Cassidix mexicanus nelsoni (Ridgway). See Van Rossem, Occas. Pap. 



Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 21 : 236, 1945. 

 164596. Adult female. Alamos (lat. 27°01' N., long. 108°58' E.), State 

 of Sonora, Mexico. Jan. 27, 1899. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. 

 Original number 6140. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 

 Quiscalus macrourus obscurus Nelson 

 Auk 17 (3) : 267, July 1900. 

 =Cassidix mexicanus obscurus (Nelson). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 10: 89, 1937. 

 144595. Adult female. Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Mexico. Jan. 14, 

 1895. Collected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. Orig- 

 inal number 2483. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Genus EUPHAGUS Cassin 



Euphagus carolinus nigrans Burleigh and H. L. Peters 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 61 : 121, June 16, 1948. 

 394218. Adult male. Stephenville Crossing (at the head of St. Georges 

 Bay), southwestern Newfoundland Province, Canada. May 20, 1947. 

 Collected by Thomas D. Burleigh. Original number 10329. Received 

 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Genus ICTERUS Daudin 



Icterus pyrrhopterus compsus Oberholser 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 25: 68, Aug. 30, 1902. 



=Icterus cayanensis periporphyrus (Bonaparte). See Hellmayr, Cata- 

 logue of birds of the Americas 10: 112, 1937. 



60595. Adult male. Cuiaba, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. 8, 1824. 



Collected by Johann Natterer. Original number 570. Received from 

 the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. 



