598. U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



r Genus PYRRHULOXI A Bonaparte 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana Ridgway 



Birds of North and Middle America 1: 625 (in key) , 628, Oct. 24, 1901. 



112362. Adult female. Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas. Jan. 12, 

 1887. Collected by George B. Sennett. Original number 27. Received 

 from George B. Sennett, in whose private collection it was No. 4100, 



112363. Adult female. Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas. Feb. 4, 

 1887. Collected by George B. Sennett. Original number 80. Received 

 from George B. Sennett, in whose private collection it was No. 4101. 



112815. Adult male. Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas. Feb. 9, 1887. 

 Collected by Charles W. Beckham. Original number 2880. 



112816. Adult female. Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas. Feb. 9, 

 1887. Collected by Charles W. Beckham. Original number 2881. 



At its first appearance (Auk 14: 95, 1897) , this name was a nomen nudum, 

 based upon birds from "Texas." When it was finally clothed with a descrip- 

 tion in 1901, Ridgway {op. cit., p. 629) gave the type locality as Corpus 

 Christi. By this happy chance, the possible cotypes are reduced to the four 

 here listed. No. 112815, the male, was selected by Richmond to be the type, 

 but it is nevertheless only a cotype. 

 Pyrrhuloxia sinuata beckhami Ridgway 

 Auk 4 (4) : 347, October 1887. 



=Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata (Bonaparte). See Amadon and Phillips, 

 Auk 64: 579-580, 1947. 



6369. Adult female. El Paso, El Paso County, Texas. 1854. Collected 

 by Adolphus L. Heermann. Pacific Railroad Survey, Line of the 32nd 

 Parallel and California. 



6370. Adult (sex not indicated, but apparently male) . Texas (probably 

 not from El Paso, El Paso County). 1851-1855. Collected by Arthur 

 C. V. Schott (not John G. Parke). United States-Mexican International 

 Boundary Survey (1851-1855). 



Ridgway tells us that he examined 17 specimens from "Southern Arizona 

 and New Mexico and contiguous portion of Northern Mexico," but then 

 designated as his type "No. 6370, U.S. Nat. Mus., $ ad., El Paso, Texas; 

 Lieut. J. G. Parke, U.S.A." — in short, a bird from a locality outside the 

 range delineated! Unfortunately, excepting the sex, all the data given for 

 No. 6370 belong, not with No. 6370, but with No. 6369, an aduh female! 

 Since, however, he gave putative characters for both the male and the female 

 of beckhami. No. 6369 might conceivably be considered a cotype with No. 

 6370, and inasmuch as its data are complete, one could wish that it might 

 be made the lectotype. Ridgway's errors in connection with No. 6370 were 

 derived either from a misreading of the museum register or from Baird 

 (Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9: 508, 1858) . 



The initials "J. G. P." on the label of No. 6369 are those of John Grubb 

 Parke, the engineer officer in charge of the survey of the Line of the 32nd 



