600 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



specimen from which Audubon drew the male figure of Fringilla maculata 



for his folio plate." 



Hedymeles melanocephalus papago Oberholser 

 Auk 36 (3) : 412, June 28, 1919. 

 =Pheucticus melanocephalus melanocephalus (Swainson). See Van 

 Rossera, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 21 : 253, 1945. 

 129086. Adult male. Santa Cruz River (west of the Patagonia Moun- 

 tains), Santa Cruz County, Arizona. June 21, 1893. Collected by 

 Francis X. Holzner. Original number 1634. United States-Mexican 

 International Boundary Commission. 



Genus GUIRACA Swainson 



G[uiraca]. coerulea var. eurhyncha Coues 



American Naturalist 8(9): 563, September 1874. 

 ==^Guiraca caerulea eurhyncha Coues. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 11: 90, 1938. 

 8063, Adult (sex not indicated, but apparently male) . Mexico. Entered 

 into the museum register on Feb. 27, 1858. Collected by John Taylor? 

 Received from John Gould. 

 Coues examined "several" Mexican specimens, but designated no one of 

 them as the type. The old-style red type label carried by No. 8063, however, 

 bears the words "Guiraca caerulea/var. eurhyncha, Coues," written by Coues 

 himself, and for this reason I have listed it alone. Since he was unable to 

 discern any "difference in the plumage," one must regret that his selection 

 was not made from the one subadult male and three adult females available 

 to him, any one of which possesses more nearly complete data. 



At the original description Coues gave no generic name beyond the initial 

 G, which may have stood for either Guiraca or Goniaphea. In view of the 

 fact that he himself spelled out Guiraca on the type label, we may suppose 

 that this was the name intended. 

 Guiraca cbiapensis Nelson 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 12: 61, fig. 14, Mar. 24, 1898. 

 =Guiraca caerulea eurhyncha Coues. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 11 : 90, 1938. 

 144319. Adult female. Ocozocoautla, State of Chiapas, Mexico. Aug. 19, 

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

 Original number 2964. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 



Genus CYANOCOMPSA Cabanis 



P[asserina]. parellina indigotica Ridgway 



Manual of North American Birds, p. 447, September 1887. 

 =Cyanocompsa parellina indigotica (Ridgway). See Hellmayr, Cata- 

 logue of birds of the Americas 11: 93, 1938. 



