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Baird has written upon an old label of No. 1860: "Fringilla cinerea of 

 Audubon. Type of his description and figure." 



Another cotype of Fringilla cinerea Audubon came through Edward 

 Harris into the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 where it is No. 24028. Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 51: 19, 

 1899) claims that this skin alone can be a type of Fringilla guttata Nuttall, 

 but there is as much reason to believe that Nuttall saw our No. 1860, then 

 in Edward Harris's possession, as the Academy's No. 24028, then equally 

 in Harris's possession. 



Melospiza melodia morphna Oberholser is a new name for guttata Nuttall, 

 preoccupied in Fringilla, and is based upon the same type specimen (s). 



In summary, No. 1860 is a cotype of Fringilla cinerea Audubon, and also 

 a probable cotype of Fringilla guttata Nuttall and of Melospiza melodia 

 morphna Oberholser; No. 1942 is a probable cotype of Fringilla cinerea 

 Audubon, but presumably has no connection with the other two names. 

 Melospiza melodia fisherella Oberholser 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24: 251, Dec. 23, 1911. 

 203507. Adult male. Honey Lake, near Milford, Lassen County, Cali- 

 fornia. June 18, 1906. Collected by A. Sterhng Bunnell. Original 

 number 272. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Ammodromus Saniuelis Baird 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: 379, (not earlier than August) 1858. 

 =Melospiza melodia samuelis (Baird). See Grinnell, Univ. California 



Publ. Zool. 38: 313, 1932. 

 5553. Adult male. Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. May 9, 1856. 



Collected by Emanuel Samuels. Original number 775. 

 7098. Adult male. Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. May (not 

 Aug.) 9, 1856. Collected by Emanuel Samuels. Original number 773. 

 Baird {in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Birds of North America, p. x, 

 1860) stated that the type of Ammodromus samuelis is No. 7098, and prob- 

 ably at that time attached to it a type label. Richmond, who normally seized 

 eagerly upon such a solution to the problem of selecting the type, here, 

 strangely enough, goes off in the opposite direction, because "no. 5553 is the 

 bird of the orig. descr., & is therefore the real type" (ms.). Since Baird's 

 description is his usual composite one, it would be difficult indeed to prove 

 that either one or the other specimen is "the bird of the orig. descr." In fact, 

 of course, the two listed above are equivalent cotypes! 



The name samuelis was probably used by Baird as euphonically preferable 

 to the more proper samuelsi; unfortunately, as it stands it is not obviously 

 dedicated to Emanuel Samuels at all, but apparently to some imaginary 

 Samuel. 

 Melospiza gouldii Baird 



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

 9: xl (in list), 477 (in key), 479, 1858. 



