Passerculus sandydchensis anthinus Bonaparte 

 Passerculus anthinus Bonaparte TYPE 



178. Brussels. V»ing 71, tail 52, exp. culmen 9-7, depth 

 at base 5.0, tarsus 19.9, niiddle toe minus clav^ lA-. 5. 

 Kadiak* 



Mounted bird in fairly good condition, though poorly 



postured; a bird of the year in coiiiplete post- juvenile 

 plumage save for a f ev^ upper and under tail coverts 

 which are juvenile. Thus probably talcen not far 

 from its birth locality. No sex indicated. 



Exposure to light has obviously caused considerable fade, 

 for the right side is notably more bleached than the 

 left; superciliary stripe (nov/) pale yeHov/, and v^hole 

 head bears traces of suffusion of this color - probably 

 originally much more prominent than now, Likevdse, 

 by disarranging the dorsal plumage it is obvious that 

 the brov^ns and clay-color edgings v.-ere more pronomded 

 than the exposed portions of the plumage shov; at pre- 

 sent. There is no doubt v;hatever that this individual 

 is a normal example of the "V/estem Savanna Sparrow", jl 

 Streaking on pectoral region £c flanks dark, reddish '! 

 brov-Ti - relatively narrow. 



This bird is from the DuBus collection according to 



Dubois catalogue, along vdth nine others from various | 

 parts of the United States and Mexico. It is entered 

 as 178 Kadiak (type de 1' anthinus Bp.) Coll. D.3. 

 It is of interest to note that in the old Brussels 

 collection there is the following contributory evidence 

 789 [loc] ? type du pamirostris Bp. Li.B. [Mus. ,, 

 Brussels] vdth a footnote - (translation) _ || 

 "This name is probably unpublished. It was so v;ritten 

 on the old stand by Bonaparte nimself." 

 789 has been crossed out in pencil with the notation 

 "ref " - which I am informed means "destroyed" reform^. 



Brussels, July 17, 1939* 



A. J. Van Rossem 



