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4058. Adult male. Saltillo, State of Coahuila, Mexico. May 1853. Col- 

 lected by Darius N. Couch. Original number 3. 



Icterus wagleri is really only a new name for Psarocolius flavigaster 

 Wagler, 1827, not Penduliniis flavigaster Vieillot, 1816, but Sclater drew up 

 a new description from a series of specimens, which accordingly became 

 the types of wagleri Sclater. 



The form was named in a paper entitled "Notes on the Birds in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and other 

 Collections in the United States of America," and the description (for which 

 no type is specifically mentioned) is followed by: "There are examples of 

 this bird at the Smithsonian Institution collected by Lieut. Couch in Coahuila. 

 I have likewise examples of it in my own collection." 



In Sclater's "Catalogue of a Collection of American Birds" (pp. 131-132, 

 1862) we find the two skins of /. wagleri from "Mexico" in his private 

 collection listed as "types of the species, as described /. c." The same author, 

 in the "Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum" (11: 373, 1886), 

 states that but one of these is "Type of the species." 



Goode (U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 49: 91, 1896) avers that the type of Icterus 

 wagleri is a bird from Coahuila in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, but this is in error, since Sclater did not mention that he had 

 seen a specimen at that museum. 



Although the author referred to specimens at the Smithsonian Institution, 

 there was, in fact, only one in Couch's collection. In short, there were but 

 three cotypes, two in London and one in Washington, and if any of the 

 three is to be made a lectotype, it should be our No. 4058, the only one 

 whose label carries usable data. 



Icterus scottii Couch 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7 (2) : 66 (not earlier than Apr. 25), 

 1854. 

 =Icterus parisorum Bonaparte. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of 



the Americas 10:121, 1937. 

 4056. Adult male. Santa Catarina, State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. April 



1853. Collected by Darius N. Couch. Original number 185. 

 Although Couch gave the range of this bird as "Western New Leon and 

 Coahuila," no specimen from the latter state seems to have reached the 

 museum. 



Icterus cucullatus nelsoni Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 8: 19, May 6, 1885. 

 =Icterus cucullatus calif amicus (Lesson). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 10: 150, 1937. 

 98992. Adult male. Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Apr. 20 (not 26), 

 1884. Collected by Edward W. Nelson. 



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