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of the Bulletin was badly delayed as a result of color-plate difficulties. I 

 received a sort of advance copy myself about April 10, but Dr. [Andrew J.] 

 Berger did not receive his copy until April 27. From all that I can learn, 

 April 24 is about as close as we can come to an accurate date of publication." 

 The U.S. National Museum copy reached the museum library from Balti- 

 more on April 24, so it must obviously have been sent out at least one day 

 earlier. 

 Melospiza melodia maxima Gabrielson and Lincoln 



Condor 53 (5) : 251, Sept. 26, 1951. 

 230692. Adult male. Kiska Harbor, Kiska Island, Rat Group, Aleutian 



Islands, Alaska. June 17, 1911. Collected by Alexander Wetmore. 



Original number 518. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 



Service. 

 Melospiza melodia amaka Gabrielson and Lincoln 



Condor 53 (5) : 253, Sept. 26, 1951. 

 298522. Adult male. Amak Island (off Cape Glazenap near the tip of 



the Alaska Peninsula), Alaska. July 13, 1925. Collected by Olaus J. 



Murie. Original number 3103. Received from the U.S. Fish and 



Wildlife Service. 

 Melospiza insignis Baird 



Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci. 1 (2) : 319, pi. 29, fig. 2 (not earlier than 



Oct. 22), 1869. 

 =Melospiza melodia insignis Baird. See Heilmayr, Catalogue of birds 



of the Americas 11:600, 1938. 



52476. Adult female? (in register, " S "), Kodiak Island (off the eastern 

 base of the Alaska Peninsula) , southern Alaska. May 27, 1868. Col- 

 lected by Ferdinand Bischoff. 



52477. Adult male. Kodiak Island, southern Alaska. May 24, 1868. 

 Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. Original number 1. 



52479. Adult male. Kodiak Island, southern Alaska. June 10, 1868. 

 Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. 



54536. Adult (sex not indicated). Kodiak Island, southern Alaska. 

 Sept. 25, 1868. Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. 



54537. Adult (sex not indicated). Kodiak Island, southern Alaska. 

 Aug. 12, 1868. Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. 



There were evidently six skins in Baird's original series, of which one, No. 

 52478, has disappeared from the collection without trace. 



Although no specimen was designated as the type, yet Baird himself has 

 written "Type" on the label (not Bischoff 's original one) of No. 52476. The 

 choice of this bird as lectotype is a strange one, since its bill has been shot 

 away (or eaten by insects?), its sex is doubtful, and its measurements are 

 well below the average ones given by the author. 



It might be noted that Nos. 54536 and 54537 were entered into the museum 

 register with the simple name "Melospiza," to which Baird himself later 

 added "insignis n.s."; Nos. 52476-52479, originally entered as "Melospiza," 



