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locality of coccinea to the regions west and northwest of the Yucatan 

 Peninsula. 



In 1897, Nelson was to name littoralis from the extreme southeastern 

 coastal areas of Veracruz ; he observed that "specimens of Cardinals obtained 

 at Catemaco and Otatitlam in Vera Cruz, and near Tuxtepec in eastern 

 Oaxaca, are from a district lying between the type locality of littoralis and 

 the range of coccineus, of the adjacent country to the north, and show grada- 

 tion between the two forms." This remark further restricted the type locality 

 of coccinea to the central regions of Veracruz and the adjacent parts of 

 Oaxaca. It seems certain that Nelson considered Hacienda "Mirador," the 

 only definite provenience ever mentioned by Ridgway, to be the unquestion- 

 able type locality of Ridgway's form. 



However, in his "Birds of North and Middle America" (1: 643 [footnote], 

 1901), Ridgway without explanation made No. 29702 the lectotype, despite 

 the fact that, of the three specimens of coccinea {in sensu stricto, as a result 

 of the restrictions just described) in his original series, this was one of two 

 without definite data! Having made his choice, he suggested that it was 

 possibly a Boucard-taken skin from Playa Vicente, Oaxaca. This may be 

 doubted! No. 29702 came to us from Salle as one of a lot of 27 specimens, 

 some from Santo Domingo, others from Mexico, and, so far as dates are still 

 on record, taken from May 1858 to January 1861. Some were in fact col- 

 lected by Boucard, others just as certainly by Salle himself. Those known 

 to have been taken by Boucard carry, on the oldest label, both provenience 

 and date; others, of which No. 29702 is one, are simply from "Mexique," and 

 were, I think, of Salle's collecting. 



That Ridgway, having three skins from which to choose, but one of which 

 is from a known locality (and that a locality mentioned by him at the 

 original description in 1873), should in 1901 attempt to make No, 29702 

 the type, is to me incomprehensible, and if there is to be a lectotype, I fail 

 to see how it can be any other than No. 28037, for which full data are 

 available ! 

 Cardinalis cardinalis littoralis Nelson 



Auk 14 (1) : 64, January 1897. 

 =Richmondena cardinalis littoralis (Nelson). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11 : 69, 1938. 

 144301. Adult male. Coatzocoalcos, State of Veracruz, Mexico. Apr. 



14, 1896. Collected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. 



Original number 3690. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 



Service. 

 C[ardinalis]. cardinalis yucatanicus Ridgway 



Manual of North American birds, p. 443, September 1887. 

 =Richmondena cardinalis yucatanica (Ridgway). See Hellmayr, Cata- 

 logue of birds of the Americas 11: 70, 1938. 



