TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 599 



Parallel and California, through whom the specimens collected by Heermann 

 were transmitted to the United States National Museum (see Hume, Orni- 

 thologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, pp. 195-196, 1942 ; and 

 Heermann, in Parke, Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 10:16, 1859) . 



The label of No. 6370 carries the initials "A.S.," which are those of 

 Arthur C. V. Schott, who acted as one of the naturalists with the Boundary 

 Survey of 1851-1855, and was wholly unaffiliated with Lieutenant Parke's 

 expedition. 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Ridgway 

 Auk 4 (4) : 347, October 1887. 

 =Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Ridgway. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 77, 1938. 

 87547. Adult male. San Jose del Cabo, State of Baja California, Mexico. 

 Apr. 13, 1882. Collected by Lyman Belding. 



Genus PHEUCTICUS Reichenbach 



Pheucticus tibialis "Baird, MS." Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 8:478 (not earlier than May 13), 



1867. 

 =Pheucticus chrysopeplus tibialis Lawrence. See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11: 79, 1938. 

 42887. Adult (sex not indicated) . Cervantes, Province of Cartago, Costa 



Rica. May 1860. Collected by Juan J. Cooper. Original number 57. 



Received from Alexander von Frantzius. 

 Pheucticus uropygialis meridensis Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 18:220, Oct. 17, 1905. 

 =Pheucticus aureo-ventris meridensis Riley. See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11: 84, 1938. 

 190410. Adult male. Pedregosa (elev. 2,500 meters). State of Merida, 



Venezuela. May (not Apr.) 29, 1903. Collected by Salomon Briceiio 



G. and daughters. 

 Fringilla maculata Audubon 



Birds of America (folio) 4 (75) : pi. 373, figs. 2, 3, and 4, 1837. 

 [Hedymeles melanocephalus] var. capitalis Baird 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds 2 : 70, 



January 1874. 

 =Pheucticus melanocephalus maculatus (Audubon). See Van Rossem, 



Auk 49:489, 1932; Occas. Pap, Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 



21: 254, footnote 69, 1945. 

 2873. Adult male. Columbia River, Oregon or Washington. July 28, 



1835. Collected by John K. Townsend. Original number 24. Re- 

 ceived from Spencer F. Baird, who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 

 Oberholser (Auk 36: 410-411, 1919) has shown that "the type of Hedy- 

 meles melanocephalus capitalis Baird ... is without much doubt the very 



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