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of Baja California, Mexico. January 1861. Collected by John Xantus. 

 Original number 6022. 

 Although the name cana has been generally attributed to Coues (Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, for 1866, p. 88, 1866), I cannot see that it is 

 there anything but a nomen nudum — not only unaccompanied by any indi- 

 cation of difference, but even (erroneously) shown to be inseparable from 

 Coues's evura: "Several specimens from Cape St. Lucas, in precisely the 

 plumage of my autumnal Whipple examples, I find labeled by Baird with the 

 MSS. name '5. cana, n. s.' " (complete "description") . 



If Coues is to be accepted as author of a valid name, a number of cotypes 

 are to be considered, but No. 23867 is the type of Spizella atrogularis cana 

 Grinnell and Swarth. 

 Strulhus atrimentalis Couch 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7 (2) : 67 (not earlier than Apr. 

 25), 1854. 

 =Spizella atrogularis atrogularis (Cabanis). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 564, 1938. 

 4335. Adult male. Agua Nueva, State of Coahuila, Mexico. May 1853. 

 Collected by Darius N. Couch. Original number 223. 



Genus ZONOTRICHIA Swainson 



Fringilla Harrisii Audubon 



Birds of America 7: 331, pi. 484, 1844. 

 =^Zonotrichia querula (Nuttall). See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds of 



the Americas 11 : 565, 1938. 

 1940. Adult male. "Kickapoo country"=Doniphan County, Kansas. May 



6 (not 5), 1843. Collected by Edward Harris. Received from Spencer 



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



it from John J. Audubon. 

 Audubon states that six specimens were actually shot, all but one by 

 Edward Harris. Reference to Harris's Journal (ed. McDermott, University 

 of Oklahoma Press, p. 57, 1951) shows that the first of the species was taken 

 by him on May 4, 1843, along the Missouri below the Black Snake Hills. On 

 May 5, the party "stopped at Black Snake Hills on the Missouri Side of the 

 river [ = Robidoux's Post on the site of the future city of Saint Joseph, 

 Buchanan County] ." On May 6 was collected "another Finch of same species 

 as that of Thursday [May 4] in better plumage — both males — Landed our 

 Indians today at their settlement." The third specimen was not taken until 

 several days later. 



The oldest label carried by our No. 1940 has all data written in Baird's 

 hand. The date "5 May" can only be a lapsus calami for May 4 or May 6. 

 since the accounts of both Audubon and Harris mention no specim.en of 

 the new bird taken on May 5. The Vvords "Kickapoo country" indicate 

 that our skin is indeed the one of May 6, since the farthest point of the 

 riverside boundary of the Kickapoo Reservation (which began across the 

 Missouri just a few miles above the modern Saint Joseph) would have been 



