642 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



231131. Adult male. Dauphin Island (at the mouth of Mobile Bay), 

 Mobile County, Alabama. Feb. 13, 1912. Collected by Ernest G. Holt. 

 Original number 24. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Fringilla Macgillivraii Audubon 



Ornithological biography 2 : 285, 1834. 

 =Ammospiza maritima macgillivraii (Audubon). See Chapman, Auk 

 16: 10, 1899; Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of the Americas 11:507, 

 1938. 

 2894. Immature (sex not indicated). Received from Spencer F. Baird 

 (of whose private collection it once formed part), who acquired it from 

 John J. Audubon. 

 This bird has been traditionally considered the type of Fringilla Macgilli- 

 vraii Audubon, and is accordingly here listed, but it should be noted that (1) 

 Audubon had "a dozen specimens" in his series, that (2) this skin lacks all 

 pertinent data, that (3) it is an immature and Audubon's description seems 

 to be based upon adults. No. 2894 is in m.y eyes at most a paratype. 

 Thryospiza maritima pelonota Oberholser 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 44: 126, Oct. 17, 1931. 

 =Ammospiza maritima pelonota (Oberholser). See Griscom., Occas. 

 Papers Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 19: 314-315, 1944; Hellmayr, 

 Catalogue of birds of the Americas 11 : 508, 1938. 

 298868. Adult male. New Smyrna, Volusia County, Florida. May 16, 

 1925. Collected by Arthur H. Howell. Original number 2003. Re- 

 ceived from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Ammodromus [sic] maritimus, var. nigrescens Ridgway 



in Baird and Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst. 5 (12) : 198, December 1873. 

 =Ammospiza maritima nigrescens (Ridgway). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11: 511 (footnote 1), 1938, 

 83501. Adult female (not male). Indian River="Dummitt's Grove"= 

 the collector's camp on the Indian River "just north of the Haulover 

 Canal and about a mile and a half from the famous Dummitt's Grove 

 on Mosquito Lagoon" (see Howell, Florida bird life, p. 15, 1932), 

 Brevard County, Florida. Apr. 4, 1872. Collected by Charles J. May- 

 nard. Original number 7251. Received from Robert Ridgway, in 

 whose private collection it was No. 1855. 

 Sutton (Florida Naturalist 22: 29, 1949) has attempted to show that the 

 type locality of nigrescens is not somewhere on Merritt's Island, but Salt 

 Lake, near Titusville. Salt Lake is the place where the form was first col- 

 lected by Maynard on Mar. 17, 1872, and is the type locality for Ammo- 

 dramus melanoleucus Maynard, 1875, but it cannot be denied that the type 

 specimen of nigrescens Ridgway, 1873, was taken on Apr. 4, 1872, when 

 (fide Howell, loc. cit.) Maynard was based at "his old collecting station near 

 Dummitt's grove on Indian River (April and May)." 



