TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 611 



16510. Adult male. Cape San Lucas, State of Baja California, Mexico. 



June 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 819. 

 16963. Adult male. Cape San Lucas, State of Baja California, Mexico. 



Sept. 20, 1859. Collected by John Xantus. 

 26546. Adult male. San Jose del Cabo, State of Baja California, Mexico. 



Dec. 6, 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 3449. 



86285. Adult male. La Paz, State of Baja California, Mexico. Jan. 13, 

 1882. Collected by Lyman Belding. 



86286. Adult male. Same data as No. 86285. 



86287. Adult male. Same data as No. 86285. 



It is no longer possible to give the exact number of adult male cotypes 

 in Ridgway's original series, but entries in the early registers indicate that 

 many more than the seven here listed must have lain before him. No locality 

 more definite than "Cape St. Lucas" was mentioned, and one might have 

 supposed that when, long afterward, Ridgway chose a lectotype, he would 

 have selected one of the skins so labeled. On the contrary, however, he 

 chose No. 86286, which, in the color of its under tail coverts, does not even 

 agree with the description of ruberrimus. In fact, despite Ridgway's 

 assertion that "in all of the 'Cape St. Lucas' specimens the under tail-coverts 

 are deeply tinged with pink," only No. 26546, of those still in the museum, 

 can accurately be so described ! 



No. 16963 at some time entered Ridgway's private collection, and now 

 carries, as its oldest label, Ridgway's own. No. 86285 is currently in the 

 mounted exhibition collection. 

 Carpodacus mexicanus sonoriensis Ridgway 



Birds of North and Middle America 1 : 135, Oct. 24, 1901. 



164320. Adult male. Alamos (lat. 27°01' N., long. 108°58' W.), State of 

 Sonora, Mexico. Dec. 30, 1898. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. 

 Original number 6037. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 



164321. Adult male. Original number 6039. Other data same as No. 

 164320. 



164322. Adult male. Original number 6038. Other data same as No. 

 164320. 



164323. Adult male. Alamos, State of Sonora, Mexico. Jan. 27, 1899. 

 Collected by Edward A. Goldman. Original number 6136. Received 

 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



164324. Adult male. Original number 6036. Other data same as No. 

 164320. 



Ridgway named this form (only inferentially on characters of the male) 

 from a series of three males from Batopilas, Chihuahua, and five males from 

 Alamos, Sonora. He himself did not consider the two groups quite homoge- 

 neous [op. cit., pp. 135-136 [footnote 3]), and while he indicated neither 



