TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 657 



passed during the first day's travel upstream from Robidoux's Post, which 

 had heen visited on May 5, lo43. 



Two other cotypes, obtained from Edward Harris, are in the collection 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Nos. 24073 and 24074) . 

 Zoiiotrichia leucophrys, var. mtermedia Ridgway 



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

 =Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii (Nuttall). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11: 567, 1938. 

 3341. Adult? female. California. Winter, "1853-1854" (see Baird, 

 Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9:461, 1858) =1843-1844? Col- 

 lected by William Gambel. Received from Spencer F. Baird (of whose 

 private collection it once formed part) , who acquired it from Thomas B. 

 Wilson, who, in turn, obtained it from William Gambel. 

 5551. Subadult male. Petaiuma, Sonoma County, California. Entered 

 into the museum register in December 1856. Collected by Emanuel 

 Samuels. Original number 293. 

 6205. Adult male. Sacramento, Sacramento County, California. Entered 

 into the museum register on Apr. 13, 1857. Collected by Adolphus L. 

 Heermann. 

 26568. Adult? female. San Jose del Cabo, State of Baja California, 

 Mexico. Nov. 15, 1859. Collected by John Xantus. Original num- 

 ber 3365. 

 46986. Adult? female. Laredo, Webb County, Texas. Feb. 3, 1867. 



Collected by H. B. Butcher. Original number 897. 

 52683. Adult (sex not indicated, but apparently male). Sun River, Cas- 

 cade County, Montana. Sept. 25, 1867. Collected by Rudolph B. Hitz. 

 Original number 130. 

 62998. Aduh? female. Iron Springs, Iron County, Utah. Oct. 4, 1872. 

 Collected by Henry W. Henshaw. Original number 227. Geographi- 

 cal and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian 

 (Expedition of 1872). 

 Ridgway mentioned no type locality for this form, but gave its range as 

 "Middle Province of the U.S., north to Alaska in the interior." Not until 

 publication of his "Birds of North and Middle America" ( 1 : 340 [footnote 2] , 

 1901) , does he state: "Type from Ft. Kenai, Alaska, May." There is reason 

 to believe, however, as I shall show, that the four skins available to him from 

 Fort Kenai (Nos. 58435, 58436, 58438, and 58439) were not considered 

 representative of intermedia at the time of description. 



I have withdrawn from the collection all surviving specimens that have 

 been labeled intermedia ijy Ridgway himself and that were part of the col- 

 lection prior to December 1873 (many seen by him have been sent away or 

 have otherwise been lost to the museum) . There are eight of these, of which 

 six (Nos. 3341, 5551, 6205, 26568, 46986, and 52684) carry original labels 

 upon which the words "gambelii" or "leucophrys" have been crossed out 



