TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 667 



Gemis CALCARIUS Bechstein 



Calcarius lapponicus coloratus Ridgway 

 Auk 15 (4) : 320, October 1898. 

 89167. Adult male. Copper Island, Commander Islands, Bering Sea off 

 Kamchatka. May 6, 1882. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Orig- 

 inal number 1002. 

 Calcarius lapponicus alascensis Ridgway 

 Auk 15 (4) : 320, October 1898. 

 118904. Adult male. Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea. 

 June 5, 1890. Collected by William Palmer. Original number 104. 

 Plectrophanes melanomus Baird 



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

 9: xxxviii (in list) , 431 (in key) , 436, 1858. 

 =Calcarius ornalus (Townsend). See Hellraayr, Catalogue of birds of 



theAmericasll:642, 1938. 

 6290. Adult male (in autumn plumage) . Fort Thorn, Dona Ana County, 

 New Mexico. Entered into the museum register between April 13 and 

 June 3, 1857. Collected by T. Charlton Henry. 

 6292. Adult male (in autumn plumage). New Mexico. 1854. Collected 

 by Adolphus L. Heermann. Pacific Railroad Survey, Line of the 32nd 

 Parallel, West. 

 After an apparently composite diagnosis, Baird gives a set of measure- 

 ments, followed by "(No. 6290)." As a result, No. 6290 has passed as the 

 type, despite the fact that its state of plumage agrees in hardly any particu- 

 lar with Baird's description of the putative form! I suggest that "(No. 

 6290)" has reference only to the measurements immediately preceding, and 

 that it might easily be a lapsus calami for No. 6292, of which the make-up 

 permits a more exact measurement of "length" than does that of No. 6290! 

 All adults among the nine specimens listed by Baird on page 437 should 

 no doubt be considered cotypes of melanomus. I have been able to find 

 only four of the original series, and of these Nos. 9116 (not 9115) and 

 6293 are too young for serious consideration. 



Genus PLECTROPHENAX Stejneger 



P[Ieclrophenax]. nivalis townsendi Ridgway 



Manual of North American birds, p. 403, September 1887. 

 =Plectrophenax nivalis toivnsendi Ridgway. See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 11 : 644, 1938. 

 106695. Adult male. Otter Island, Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea. June 



8, 1885. Collected by Charles H. Townsend. Original number 1046. 

 Plectrophenax hyperboreus Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 7: 68, July 25, 1884. 

 =Plectrophenax nivalis hyperboreus Ridgway. See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11 : 645, 1938. 



