TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 637 



Pipilo albigula Baird 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 11:305 [p. 10 in reprint] (not 

 earlier than Nov. 29) , 1859. 

 =Pipilo juscus albigula Baird. See Davis, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 



52: 106, 1951. 

 12993. Adult male. Cabo de San Lucas, State of Baja California, Mexico. 

 April 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 74. 



12995. Immature? female. Cabo de San Lucas, State of Baja California, 

 Mexico. April 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original num.ber 83. 



12996. Adult female. Cabo de San Lucas, State of Baja California, 

 Mexico. May 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 533. 



13040. Adult female. Cabo de San Lucas, State of Baja California, 

 Mexico. June 25, 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 

 1071. 



13041. Adult male. Cabo de San Lucas, State of Baja California, Mexico. 

 June 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 758. 



Only six specimens had been entered into the museum register prior to 

 the date of Baird's description, so these alone may safely be considered 

 cotypes. The missing one is No. 12994, sent in February 1860 to Alexander 

 D. Bache. 



PipiSo fusciis potosinus Ridgway 

 Auk 16 (3): 254, July 1899. 

 78106. Adult male. Guanajuato, State of Guanajuato, Mexico. Entered 

 into the museum register on June 28, 1879. Collected by Alfred Duges. 



Genus MELOZONE Reichenbach 



Pyrgisoma xantusii "Baird, MS." Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 8: 480 (not earlier than May 13), 1867. 

 =Melozone kieneri kieneri (Bonaparte). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 470, 1938. 

 31828. Adult male. Tonala (not "Plains of Colima"), State of Jalisco, 



Mexico. June 1863. Collected by John Xantus. Original number 1004. 



Genus CALAMOSPIZA Bonaparte 



F[ringilla]. bicolor J. K. Townsend 



Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7 (2) : 189, 1837. 



=^Calamospiza melanocorys Stejneger. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 

 of the Americas 11 : 475, 1938. 



2869. Adult male. "Plains of the Platte river," Nebraska or Wyoming. 

 May 24-June 1, 1834. Collected by Thomas Nuttall. Received from 

 Spencer F. Baird (of whose private collection it once formed part) , who 

 acquired it from John J. Audubon, who, in turn, obtained it from 

 Thomas Nuttall. 



Audubon (Ornithological biography 5: 19, 1839) quotes Nuttall as fol- 

 lows: "On the 24th of May, soon after crossing the north [=south] branch 



