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45976. Adult female. Sitka, Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska. Janu- 

 ary 1866. Collected by F. SeifFert for Ferdinand Bischoff. 

 61131. Adult (sex not indicated). Port (not Fort) Simpson, Coast 

 Electoral District, Province of British Columbia, Canada. 1864 or 

 1865. Collected by James Hepburn. 

 The type of this form has been variously mentioned, even by Ridgway, 

 as now the one from Sitka, again the one from Port Simpson. In fact, each 

 of the two is an equivalent cotype. 



No. 61131, not entered into the museum register until December 1870, 

 carries a tag with the words "To be returned to J. Hepburn S. F.", in Hep- 

 burn's own hand. A second label, filled in wholly by Baird, has, on the 

 reverse side, "Return to J. Hepburn," and on the obverse, "Type." Whether 

 or not the skin was returned to Hepburn and later presented by him to the 

 museum cannot now be known. 



No. 45976, the museum's own property, does not show the word "Type," 

 but bears instead the circular red tab that was once used in Washington 

 to identify a type specimen. 



Since one of the two had to be returned to private ownership, it is clear 

 that Baird had every reason to treat the second specimen as a cotype. 

 Leucosticle campestris Baird 



in Cooper, Geological survey of California, Om. 1: 163 (not earlier than 

 October) 1870. 

 ==Leucosticte tephrocotis littoralis Baird. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 261, 1938. 

 41527. Adult (sex not indicated). Near Denver (probably somewhere in 

 Jefferson County) , Colorado. January 1862. Collected by C. Wernigk. 

 Leucosticte atrata Ridgway 



American Sportsman 4 (16) : 241, July 18, 1874. 

 ^=Leucosticte tephrocotis atrata Ridgway. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 263, 1938. 

 60638. Adult male. North side of the Uinta Mountains, Summit County, 

 Utah. Sept. 20, 1870. Collected by H. D. Schmidt. Original number 

 553. U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, Expedition of 1870. 

 162695. Adult male. Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado. Apr. 20, 



1874. Collected by Charles E. H. Aiken. Original number 1537. 

 This name was established upon a series of two males and three females, 

 of which one male (our No. 60638) had been in the museum since October 

 1870, while the remainder formed part of Aiken's private collection. 



Late in 1897 or early in 1898, No. 162695 was purchased from Aiken for 

 $25.00. Although its oldest label bears the word "Type" in Ridgway's 

 hand, it is only one of five cotypes. 



On this label also appears the name "L. atro-rosea Ridgway," which was 

 later to appear as a nomen nudum, (spelled "atrirosea") in Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. 7 (4) : 486, February 1877, where was announced the gift 

 of the "original specimen" by Aiken to the Society. The skin, a female col- 



