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4, 1908. Collected by Walter R. Zappey. Received from the Museum 



of Comparative Zoology, where it was No. 50107. 

 Hartert and Steinbacher (Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, Erganzungs- 

 band 1: 36, 37, 1932) have recognized Eophona migratoria pulla Penard as 

 the bird of the valley of the Yangtze, and have synonymized sowerbyi with 

 migratoria. The type of sowerbyi, however, represents the resident form of 

 the Yangtze valley, and Riley's name has four years' priority over Penard's. 



Genus MYCEROBAS Cabanis 



Mycerobas melanozanthos fratris-regis Deignan 

 Auk 60 (4) : 608, Oct. 7, 1943, 

 336124. Adult male. Doi Suthep (lat. 18°50' N., long. 98°55' E.), at 

 elev. 5,500 feet, Province of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Feb. 2, 1936. Col- 

 lected by Herbert G. Deignan. Original number 900. 



Genus HESPERIPHONA Bonaparte 



Hesperiphona vesperlina, var. montana Ridgway 



Bull. Essex Inst. 5 (11) : 181 [nomen nudum], 189, November 1873. 



=Hesperiphona vespertina montana Ridgway. See Grinnell, Condor 

 19: 20-21, 1917. 



35150. Adult male. Hacienda "Mirador," State of Veracruz, Mexico. 

 June 1864. Collected by Carl C. W. Sartorius. Original number 180. 



Ridgway {in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American 

 birds 1 : 449, 1874) gave the range of montana as "Southern Rocky Moun- 

 tains of United States, and mountains of Mexico," and {ibid., p. 450) as 

 "Southern Rocky Mountains of United States into Mexico; Orizaba! . . . 

 Vera Cruz (alpine regions, breeding) . . . Guatemala . . . ." No type was 

 specifically indicated, but, as has been pointed out by Grinnell {op. cit., p. 

 18) , "a virtual type" had been designated by the fact that Ridgway used No. 

 35150 for his drawing (pi. 22, fig. 4) . Despite all this, the label of a skin 

 from Cantonment Burgwyn, New Mexico (No. 11960), is the one that bears 

 the words "Type of supposed 'var. montana' — RR." (in Ridgway 's own 

 hand). Mearns (Auk 7:247, 1890) was therefore somewhat justified in 

 establishing No. 11960 as the lectotype. 



Grinnell's insistence on the importance of No. 35150's having served as 

 model for the drawing resulted in reducing mexicana Chapman, 1897, to a 

 synonym of montana, and permitting Grinnell himself to bestow the name 

 warreni on the bird that ranges from Colorado through New Mexico. His 

 reasoning, however, has suflScient cogency to induce me to list here only No. 

 35150, which is certainly the better prepared specimen. 



More recently, Zimmer (Auk 70: 213, 1953) has thrown new light on 

 the problem by showing that as far back as 1870 Baird {in Cooper, Geo- 

 logical survey of California, ornithology 1 : 175-176) had referred to Ridg- 

 way's still unnamed form and given its range as "the table-lands of Mexico, 



