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type nor type locality, his choice of a subspecific name enables us to restrict 

 the type locality to the only possible Sonoran provenience. 



The five here listed are equivalent cotypes; No. 164324, stated by Van 

 Rossem (Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 6:295, 1931), on Richmond's 

 authority, to be the type, is only a lectotype, selected without regard for the 

 fact that it is the one bird of the five to have some of the breast feathers 

 abnormally colored ! 

 Carpodacus mexicanus centralis Moore 



Condor 39 (5) : 204, Sept. 15, 1937. 

 105265. Adult (sex not indicated, but apparently male). Guanajuato, 



State of Guanajuato, Mexico. Entered into the museum register on 



July 28, 1885. Collected by Alfred Duges. 

 Carpodacus mexicanus coccineus Moore 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 52: 128, July 22, 1939. 

 31826. Adult male. "Mountains of Colima"=Volcan de Nieve, at about 



6,000 feet (see Moore, loc. cit., p. 129) , State of Colima, Mexico. June 



1863. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 1003. 



Genus LOXIGILLA Lesson 



Loxigilla portoricensis var. grandis Lawrence 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 4: 204, Nov. 25, 1881. 



=LoxigiUa portoricensis grandis Lawrence. See Bond, Checklist of birds 

 of the West Indies, ed. 3, p. 167, 1950. 



80930. Adult female. Saint Kitts Island, Leev/ard Islands, Caribbean Sea. 

 1880 (entered into the museum register on Oct. 23). Collected by 

 Frederick A. Ober. Original number 225. 



Lawrence gave a full description of an unspecified adult male, following 

 this with a comment to the effect that "the plumage of the female is similar 

 to that of the male, "and, farther along, giving measurements of an unspeci- 

 fied female. It would thus appear that the type should be a male and that 

 his reference under "Remarks" to "the female from St. Kitts chosen as the 

 type" should be considered a lapsus calami, but the one female now in Wash- 

 ington has been set aside by Richmond as the type, and Dr. John T. Zimmer, 

 with whom I have discussed the problem, is in agreement with Richmond. 



Lawrence stated that the original series consisted of nine specimens from 

 Ober, of which but one, a male, was in olive-colored plumage; he indicated 

 further that the entire series was in the United States National Museum. 

 In fact, however, but three specimens were ever entered into the museum 

 register, Nos. 80928 (adult male), 80929 (immature male), and 80930 (adult 

 female) . The remainder of the series seems to be two adult males now in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York, and three adult males and 

 one adult female now in the Chicago Natural History Museum {ex Cory 

 Collection). 



Even if we are to follow Richmond in accepting a female as type, it is 

 obvious that the Chicago skin (No. 9069) has equal status with ours and that 



