TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 655 



Our Nos. 1905 and 2890 were taken at the same time and place as the type 

 specimen of Orpheus montanus Townsend (see Coues, Auk 17: 68-69, 1900) . 

 Cassin saw an unspecified number of skins from "Western North America, 

 California, New Mexico," most of which doubtless were or are in the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. At least one of these is listed by Stone 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 51: 30, 1899) : a Townsend-taken bird 

 (No. 24050) from "Black Hills, Dak[ota]." This bird could have come, of 

 course, only from Townsend's "Black Hills" of Wyoming; see my remarks 

 under F[ringilla]. bicolor Townsend (p. 637) . 

 Spizella wortheni Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 7: 259, Sept. 19, 1884. 

 98512. Adult male. Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico. June 16, 

 1884. Collected by Charles H. Marsh. Received from Charles K. 

 Worthen. 

 Spizella evura Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, for 1866, p. 87, June 11, 1866. 

 =Spizella atrogularis evura Coues. See Van Rossem, Condor 37: 282- 



283, 1935. 

 40821. Immature female. Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona. 



July 21, 1865. Collected by Elliott Coues. Original number 1540. 

 83567. Immature (sex not indicated). Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, 

 Arizona. Aug. 10, 1864. Collected by Elliott Coues. Original num- 

 ber 529. Received from Robert Ridgway (of whose private collection 

 it once formed part), who probably acquired it from Elliott Coues. 

 The name evura first appeared on Coues's labels for Nos. 37142-37144 

 (from 50 miles south of Fort Wingate, New Mexico), which were entered 

 into the museum register by Baird in April 1865 as "Spizella evura Coues," 

 but these three (none of which is now in the museum) are precluded by 

 provenience from consideration as cotypes. 



At the place in which the name evura is first published, Coues states that 

 "during my first autumn [1864] at Fort Whipple I shot numerous specimens" 

 exhibiting the characters of evura. Not one of these can now be found in 

 Washington with the exception of No. 83567, which was apparently obtained 

 by Ridgway directly from Coues; on the reverse side of Ridgway's private 

 label is written "Typical of 'evura' Coues," in Coues's own hand. 



No. 40821, although not collected in the autumn of 1864, yet was taken 

 prior to publication of the name, and is at least potentially a cotype; upon 

 the face of Coues's private label is written "Spizella 'evura' mihi." 

 Spizella atrogularis cana "Coues" Grinnell and Swarth 

 Auk 43 (4) : 478, Oct. 11, 1926. 

 23867. Immature male. Sierra Santa Gerlrudis, "a southern section of 

 the Victoria Mountains in the Cape district, not far from San Jose del 

 Cabo" (see Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 32 : 31, 1928), State 



