TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 641 



Emberiza Bairdii Audubon 



Birds of America 7: 359, pi. 500, 1844. 



=Ammodramus bairdii (Audubon). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 

 of the Americas 11: 501, 1938. 



1885. "Prairie of the Upper Missouri"=Fort Union (near the confluence 

 of the Yellowstone River with the Missouri), Williams or McKenzie 

 County, North Dakota. July 26, 1843. Collected by Edward Harris 

 and John G. Bell. Received from Spencer F. Baird (of whose private 

 collection it once formed part) , who acquired it from John J. Audubon. 



Two cotypes of this form are preserved in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, where they are Nos. 24085 and 24086. 



See my remarks on the type locality under Alauda Spragueii Audubon (p. 

 474). 

 Centronyx ochroceplialus Aiken 



American Naturalist 7 (4) : 237, April 1873. 



=Ammodramus bairdii (Audubon). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 

 of the Americas 11: 501, 1938. 



162696. Adult male. "Dry, open plains," El Paso County, Colorado. 

 Collected by Charles E. H. Aiken. Original number 1113. Purchased 

 from Charles E. H. Aiken (of whose private collection it once formed 

 part) . 



Genus AMMOSPIZA Oberholser 



Ammodramus caudacutus becki Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 14: 483, Oct. 22, 1891. 

 =Ammospiza caudacuta nelsoni (Allen). See Grinnell, Univ. California 



Publ.Zool.38:307,1932. 

 120310. Adult (sex not indicated). "Among the tules on the edge of a 



small salt-water slough" near Milpitas, Santa Clara County, California. 



May 6, 1891. Collected by RoUo H. Beck. 

 Ammodramus maritimus figheri Chapman 



Auk 16 (1): 10, January 1899. 

 =Ammospiza maritima fisheri (Chapman). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 510, 1938. 

 163722. Adult female. Grand Isle, Grand Island, coast of Jefferson 



Parish, Louisiana. June 9, 1886. Collected by Albert K. Fisher. Orig- 

 inal number 2622. Received from Albert K. Fisher (of whose private 



collection it once formed part) . 

 Passerherbulus miaritimus howelli Griscom and Nichols 



Proc. Linn. Soc. New York 32 : 22, Nov. 3, 1920. 

 =Ammospiza maritima fisheri (Chapman). See Griscom, Occas. Papers 



Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 19: 319-321, 1944. 



