TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 661 



P[asserella]. niegarhyncluis [51c] Baird 



in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9 : xl 



(in list), 925, 1858. 

 =Fasserella iliaca inegarhyncha Baird. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 11 : 591, 1938. 

 10279. Adult male. Fort Tejon, Kern County, California. Entered into 



the museum register on May 20, 1858. Collected by John Xantus. 



Original number 1299. 

 10280 (reentered as 12402). Adult female. Fort Tejon, Kern County, 



California. Jan. 7-11, 1858. Collected by John Xantus. Original 



number 1397. 

 The only possible cotypes of this form are Nos. 10278-10280, the three 

 from Fort Tejon listed by Baird on page 490 as Passer ella "schistacea." No. 

 10278 cannot now be found in the collection. 



Genus MELOSPIZA Baird 



Melospiza georgiana ericrypta Oberholser 



Bird life of Louisiana, Louisiana Dep. Cons. Bull. 28: 675, June 1938. 

 283543. Adult male. Fort McMurray, near McMurray (at the confluence 

 of the Clearwater River with the Athabaska), Athabaska Electoral Dis- 

 trict, Province of Alberta, Canada. May 6, 1921. Collected by John 

 A. Loring. Original number 970. Received from the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 

 Passerculus caboti Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway 



History of North American birds 2 : pi. 46, fig. 9, Jan. 1874. 

 =Melospiza georgiana georgiana (Latham). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11 : 595, 1938. 

 62373. Immature (sex not indicated). Nahant, Essex County, Massa- 

 chusetts. Entered into the museum register on Dec. 17, 1872. Col- 

 lected by Samuel Cabot, Jr. Received from Samuel Cabot, Jr. 

 This fragmentary specimen (consisting of head, neck, and upper back 

 only!) was nowhere described, but became the type of a colored drawing 

 (which, incidentally, does not at all resemble its model ! ) . 



Since no author's name is mentioned, Passerculus caboti is customarily 

 credited jointly to Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, but it may be noted that tlie 

 oldest label carries the words "Passerculus caboti, Baird." 

 Melospiza georgiana nigrescens G. M. Bond and Stewart 

 Wilson Bull. 63 (1) . 38, April 1951. 

 418565. Adult male. Marshes of the Nanticoke River (opposite Vienna), 

 Wicomico County, Maryland. June 24, 1950. Collected by Gorman M. 

 Bond and Robert E. Stewart. Original number 120. Received from 

 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 This number of The Wilson Bulletin is dated "March 1951," but did 

 not appear until some lime in April. The editor then incumbent, George 

 M. Sutton, informed me in a letter dated Apr. 30,1951: "The March issue 



