or 4 : ‘ . . per a , P won ~ . octet OF a : Smithsonian Institution Libraries Alexander Wetmore ey AO Sixth Secretar 1953 = | CA. Wehner ‘ae Oe Oe 7 Pike me ; 7 ve qe AY Bd ei, Manuscript Notes on Avian Types / by Adriaan van Rossem In 1933 Adriaan van Rossem travelled abroad to visit museums, primarily to examine types, and also to check on other materials. His notes indicate the following itinerary: Paris July 24 to Aug. 3 Munchen Aug. 19 to 21 Darmstadt Aug, 22 Berlin Aug. 24 to 313 Sept. 2 Dresden Sept. 1 London Sept. 7 to 25 Cambridge Sept. 21 In 1938 van Rossem and I were abroad to- gether to attend the Ninth International Ornithological Congress at Rouen. We examined a few specimens in Paris and later were in London where we lived as guests with David and Muriel Bannerman. We also visited Cam- bridge. In June 1939 van Rossem went abroad again primarily to examine type material. Beforehand he came to Washington, and for a time was with me, while he worked daily at the U.S. National Museum. He had with him his notes from his previous studies abroad, written longhand on small sheets. During his stay in Washington the political situation in Europe steadily became more critical in movement toward war. While travel abroad was not prohibited, it was evident that it might be interrupted wi much prior warning. D loo eres ae In consideration of this van Rossem asked me to have his longhand notes typed with a carbon copy that he could take with him while the originals were left in my care. Also he kindly gave me the ribbon copy with permission to retain it for my files for use as needed, as indicated in his handwritten note of June 19, 1939 that is included with these papers, with excerpts from two of his letters written in London August 13 and 29. His itinerary in 1939, in main part, was as follows: Leiden July 3 to & Brussels July 11 to 29 London Aug. 11 to mid-September With his letters from the latter city he forwarded the notes made during this journey, to be typed and placed with the other material. The original of the typed copy, given to me by van Rossem, is bound herewith, with the material arranged by genus name in alpha- betical order. Alexander Wetmore bees ei nev eit 16 ied deseali bana at pe dtiw begrd es ton brisetgrtal ein svsd of oLtriw mid dtiw ovad bfyoo od tabF yqoo ane of o¢fh .etso ym ni ttel oxvsw efentgizc ont noteeinrwg débv yqoo soddis eft sn evsy ylbstbol ,bebesm 26 Salt sot soltt wa sot Jf nister of srt ‘Yo efon matiinvbned aint at Setsotont es ,Stemeq beet Atiw bebufont at sads C&CL (CL \ BARE SOF eresiel eirf to ort mort etorrooxe ditiw s@S bue EL teneuh sob rrat nf few ,dteq aiam at sPQRE af yrerentyh eli sewoll ot BB 8 ot & yin nebial RS ot Ti yin elflseenra fedmsdasc~ikim of LL awa nebriat =e of yeis seitel off cord essttel ehi com - Xe evel aint anivid shen coton odd bebtewsol | tatrethic satto erg driw boost; bax beqyt' ed ot _ of nevis b eo eee ert to, faniabto sar els Hota fibsorod bitod'ak wtersol nev yd om ia tan fk “emets ance yo bognerte Sabvetam | Caer. a i owebro Leo kded hn Bird Room, British Museum August 13, 1939 Dear Doc: Having been around the circle of various and sundry museums it would seem that I should submit some sort of report. Leiden is a very different place under the guidance of Junge, compared to the Van Oort regime of several years ago. I spent two weeks there with excellent results in the way of Bonaparte and Temminck types - thanks to Junge's help. I may say that our very pleasant impressions of him from Rouen last year are more than verified, both personally and professionally. He devoted practically his entire time to me at the museum, took me on several long country walks, and seemed really disappointed that I would not put up at his home instead of a hotel. thtt+ Brussels took nearly a month - much more work there in the way of Du Bus, Dubois and Bonaparte types than had been anticipated. There is considerable systematic grief there - Most of Du Bus! "Mexico" types being taken in "Tabasco" by Ghiesbreght - in territory which is now Chiapas - and consequently his names are perfectly good for several Central American mountain races. Also Bonaparte's Passerculus anthinus type is there - beyond any question, Thank God it is "the" Western Savannah Sparrow and consequently no change from Griscom and Peters' review is necessary. oS myseM de fdEss: aecot bobs REET af deuguh 1901 7 | eae to ‘elotic odd bavow need gnivell bigots I tatt mese one Si emoeeur ywibave brs ‘ _siroget lo sroe sutoa Simdigze jbrr soslg jade iy yrev a af nebiel mel ond o¢ beteqmon ,ogal To jusbick ang taede I sons etusy-Iatevee Io eminet g00 (Ons th. gtiueet ino. eons dictiw oxeds aexfeaw owt » Soltisds - songs aon? bas edsaqanol te yew, Waev mb teit ybe-qam I .qled etegnul ot tet geuae mort mid to enokeesiqnt tnseselq viisrosieq Wed Bottinev malt otom ors cesy Yilsoijosia badoved ol .yilsenoivestor bas © ‘it ood passevm aft te om of omkd otidete ald - bamese “tins eatiev reine yaol Lerswes ‘fo qu dig don bifid I sartd hecrtonaseth yflee1 »Lotol s to heedeni emod eld o4 otes+ Som foma_- dtten s Nissen dood @eeeuxt pris shod .esd wd To yew ond ni exrsit drew - a botagtotins need bel medt esq oJasqsnol - stent ‘tefun ofiemeteye oldserabienoos ei etedT si sevlet gnted eoqi Vonkxs!™ tat ol to dat Hoidw yiotiaied ni - tdgerdes ir) yd" oomadsT" esmean eid vlinserexinos bas - esqetdd won ef naotzend Lenzned Latevea rcl boog yltoetreq sis Bad slodreqenct oeli .B8981 genera: ceca ded we gta ~ orarlt ef ext ot geld et df bot is ~é a! ee eel I only arrived here two days ago - everyone is out of town this month. Mathews on his way to Australia, Percy Lowe and G. Carmichael [Low] shooting grouse in Scotland, Bannerman in Cornwall, Meinertzhagen and com- pany somewhere on the western front, Grant in Egypt. Sclater is here, also Kinnear, both of whom send their best regards. ++4+4+ Always sincerely, (signed) van R. a1) a : Pre iI é M “~~. = Ope eyed eon ened boven vino I ) swerdell efignom eidd mwod to do ek oncyrsve 2 Das swol yorusd .sifsrdevA o¢ yew eid mo ebreltoo® ak sevors anttooda [wal] fesioierwd -moo bra negsdzsitento! .flewa1c) of nearrennied dasw. ,.dnort orcdeew edt mo sterwemoe yasq dtod ,1sennit opie .sted ef totaloe pdqyad at sebreget teed «fers oase modw To thet euleseonie eyswik A ay (bung be) [London] Tuesday, 29th [August 1939] Dear Doc: I am sending you today two separate en- velopes of notes on types, etc., by registered mail. At the moment it looks as though they might be a trifle safer in America than here! Am trying to be optimistic but am not leaving, for the reason that we all have been working about 26 hours a day packing books and other valuables, and I seem definitely to be of some use and much remains to be done. ++4++ Hurriedly, (signed) van P.S. Some of the notes may seem to be contra- dictory, but actually are not if you look them over carefully. 4 [el temguA] ates .ysbeouT [aobnol] s500 _s8900 “£9 adsisves ows yehod voy satbnee as I berveteines xd ..ode ,coqyt tio eedon to seqolev yond dewort es edool JE Jnemom ond SA Litem lesed medd soivemA ai -rotse efting s ed tdgie .pitivsel joo me dud ofteinisqo ed of anigid mA ynbiror reed sved, [fe sw tadd noaset ont r0t sedto bas eood andlosq yesh 5 ewwod oS dyods emce to eg of yvleatiniteb meee I bas ,esidaulav .snoh ed of emtemen doum bas sey Pedy [be tsavtl Yibeis - nev (bemte) -sidttios ed ot mese yam eston sit to emoG .&.1 meds wool voy ti don ove yilsutos dud .ytodoib »Viistets9 tevo SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION yy 153 Me 1 cy uf - = a Lt é! a“ ait i . a 1 7 ' S ' Atha Wedehd: SLIT “See a Te =— " eee arm)’ OR: Cees es bs A ® saree Mis $4 ae Aa 6, a ahs 242) BANS Or Pe eA CA yes 1)” Fe a eMC LI ons? ouiuy We) ate «ieee BEM e:.a0 Sirice ser osnek” RG ee bao alg yo oo) ee ere: jo. Se | | : gil = ee ‘of _* : ‘hae ae ; » ; ae ia” o, he n ou a - ey 7) : : ie. ; # a =) aes: a“ 7 i - ‘ i a) Agelaius phoeniceus gubernator (Wagler) Psarocalius gubernator Wagler Typed 2202 7422 Berlin 132.0 86.5 21.0 13.2 34.4 22.0 Deppe Mexiko [ie City State of] Psarocolius gubernator Wagl. 1832 Mas. Mexiko Th22 Gr. ve Sock Deppe S. Mounted bird in fair condition - a fully adult male in slightly abraded plumage. Shoulder bars black - a normal gubernator. This is the only d gubernator in the collection taken by Deppe and is the only candidate for typeship. Ex. by me August 24, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem anges) TS eer coms ae riage t \eqyi 3924.4 " x : 7 mn ee : Shh sae = og ~ ‘ ¢ Sk Ons Lee! sire aA : i { i * 3 en ttet st a. OI Sit> Tis cal oa eT iN > Nea viaie Stns Teh. ud Hibende “heighioae eos ti pine bat aoe @ Giiw @hé th viel or ie Raa (Loring eat Ott itues Vio cil 2) te oy Wee. MOssPeLiae) j a’ = AUEiN? = “ss ome <4 “9 ate = @r >< ib i ~~) ee Agelaius thilius major (Bonaparte) ‘hilius major Bonaparte TYPE 682, culmen base 22.5, fis aoe doe 726 me Miagale vos minus er Ge ie | Mounted bird in good condition; yellow glass eyes; plumage that of late "winter" or early "spring" a fully adult male. The only trace of edging anywhere are a few traces on the flanks and under—tail—coverts and on the ti the secondary coverts; shoulders bright yellows under < at * Sena fa oak eos ilies maa fo yer ving covert and edge of wing cLightly paler yellow; there is no slightest trace of superciliary streak. There is another "Chili" specimen here - a young 7139 male in first pre-nuptial plumage, on which of course, there is considerable edging. However, in this specimen also, there is not the faintest suggest- ion of a superciliary mark. No locality given in the original description; "Chili as given in the register is, of cour quite wrong. The register gives no hint of from whom the bird were obtained, they were a part of the old mseum (not Du Bus) collection, and are without question the species referred to by Bonaparte. Since that author used the term "nigerrimis" in the description it seems best to regard the adult as a holotype. | Brussels, July 28, 1939. 1a) © & Alticola - Todd is, of course, reduced to synonymy. A. J. Van Rossem a ‘ : - - ' : f) ® ny L | : 4 2 rt i ro ‘ 4 y rt Lae cet es ee eee: in 7 : _ 7 Abst at ~~ -, aul va EROS i b pte 2 |olng Ati 4. Ea ‘ches 7 - n i ve yk , ; - 1 Aa 2h ma a ie _ r > - ¥5.* fl y ¥ETT J itetiegs “9.4.8 Sole ; ; f - 1 i j ; - " } - : > 7 ap peo isc 7 qs vr eee: milena Lact hs oi Syn i | & ear belie hs eo a a re ¥:. s ‘@ a ~eot?w & , "89 mk Wee aor a oi * oh i = il a Be woh r ay ve pe oe oS oe aa ee a = Oe a ‘ gee “0 i 34 |) onan pe ex Se . oF uta te AO. BUCS ule Ee Bete sittart premet Iecinist sci ~ 2 ’ ots Se aes ae \e SE a ae a er ‘serene anne to. wort? Ying sat i Ss tierod~Lig=tobhis Deng, wale C3 eas mere fe) fs — sl erbb lvoe petveves “eraincoee. mit bo ofa 71ers eahy v iakie ott oh rien?’ a Habs Wer)”. sods Diet at erent i seatk? GE ten “Elm! - Laie vt Bi gie Oicate lewd el esi! ® .cetuge Sag ant ols hagicogs og yall wink Ed: tie o So: na Seago" sr iclesaeb Jecie tic ef3 at Hoviy wjlinoel of a ae. ee tUCE iG gO Tore tyes ond ml savin’ es ofp aD ate Cow Fert. io warn mals Sov rs oe Enea ee are 6 Us meeesite De oor oo oe eR WEHse SfomT cgi cl Fir ny of. > dred Gey — pesarey| ap A ru mige r i 1 @] N ee pwlten y bal re * »% th, Put} a y ins : the saat S ite ok Taqance WW ag teiistes calsade eth aoe poise ss: SoU G5 drs "eimeriyat = areas ong: Gees FOGTo gocywuo © Se oGrhs, 24c Sisget ef ted tases Fi we o> wii in -eLetenid 7 ‘ = - — Osenye os Hsouhey..sestus Le ,et bbol = wisely Sesion fey ites is - n rd { a : * | sv a + - t f i ] - 5 : eee Cea TEESE enn TT Sue ESO ENT DNV ODIIETINIv SUTIN Tcwn TET 0 ws ON ce ne fo i Agelaius thilius petersii Laubmann Type Type 32.1594 Munchen 83.5 70. 2422 17.5 Schulmacher Date: April 245 '32 Locality: Saladillo, Santa Fe, Argentina. Skin- not well made but in good condition. Plumage fresh and with extensive @ipping everywhere. Examined by me at Munchen on August 19, 1933. It is sexed as a "d QO", Ae Je Van Rossem aril’ 7 “+ a n 5 ee P2eier ws stcei a : i ilny oe. a: a i A i uit OE oe eee ; nse 2 yg dm — - [a ts I O) = L - > | f | . / - « ( y ! "lf on aa po f M , + re ) oe Sa 3 ie’ ——_ os are ete: te . ary, = 9h Sen8 nec PLES 2 = » é ee he \ A | Ge! es % elt 2 Wels eal, ahah LISA O21!) =i = ray if ar > yen e #-) EJ.cye ¢ vi (aes is ee ee Se ee et ee : A «ea Seotes wes od fi J » QS ( . t 7 i} Agelaius xanthoms (Sclater) Icterus xanthomuis Sclater Type 85.7012e135 BeM. 105.0 83.0 19.8 9.0 24.8 18.5 Verreau Locality: Porto Rico One label only - e Mus. P. L. Sclater. Agelaeus xanthomus on reverse Type of Ict. xanthoms, Scl. 796, a Cat. ABs pe. 131 .= Porto Rico Verreau B5e/etewdoD Skin in good condition, an adult male in fresh plumage. Bill gaping slightly. Examined at London Sept. 10, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem —— a , Ae Le - a _ + . - Ln a ih i Tih _ 7 + Oe hd , - 7 7 Re yy: a : : . re hr os f : -_ on ‘Garator), bs septa aT u dee aydaloe sanitone obiabe - 29fn OS199 mitedarmt STesdlse) di adie = yino lsdat eet SUIVvOU) im - | Ulirica) Sti oithaton, Garr Tk ec rs any't SE SO Se age em i PEEL at Bik) dt a) cee iy. i? | Lf wee 1 eRe Savvis) Gh stegd | es cae 2 Jee wcas B Alia el Nou saath OGM tad of! lets 5 i, 7 Selatptie alga At” necnig Coe | REDE 4 an) eed, MMi oS Sate’ | ee woo sarki bent 4 pti Lei ia Aimophila aestivalis aestivalis (Lichtenstein) - Fringilla aestivalis Lichtenstein Type No. 6099. Collection - Berlin. Wing 57.5, tail 60.0, culmen exp. 11.5, depth 6.7, tarsus 18.5, middle toe minus claw 13.8 Sieber. Locality - Georgia. F. aestivalds N. Sieber Georgia 6099 Gr. v. Hoffm. Mounted bird in fair condition, though in abraded (early summer?) plumage. Typical of the southern race, with feathers of back with mesial streaks of black. Not sexed. Examined August 25, 1933 at Berlin. A. J. Van Rossem Sext ee shaosie® a: SaneaS ies SIRES eer nmkecunerhet. 5) ovo 4ee Blears = (2 gait loret = alvaeetss. sPROd 20 Ol mial s ‘ot &. er qeedd +e: 83st D 20h he a Serine 1 ede: 4B. \a. wale aionte Nee Lahn lyre eure’ | Chino lowe 49 7 ; u t "= eye ce eS acitwst) ots al ee -—s a 4 7 Weteuens. oolIhinet: thst at tad betepels on )76 Jastoc? ols AME 4 (o- 2 oy ded “be Nall 7) beside punta a Adin oad Te eetserl idtw, ,0oAt aadtude —*. oo 108 flaccd te ettaet ter ® | ra Pees oa) a th Saws, Gealah = = a a a art 1, —s Paaere ¢ : ee ot — a ), * . , mf , on, os ‘“ 4 - : " 9 = u fa jj 7 a) nu v4 : : a9 a i : . a er i | _ : : Oa in ie i ; ; i at : rl f 7 fl Ee ee | io iad ee Ue Share ee ‘ Pre aren tee. * © Aimophila quinquestriata Zonotrichia quinquestriata Scl. & Salvin Type No. 1885.2.10.440. Collection - B.M. Wing 68.5, tail 61.0, culmen exp. 12.4, depth 7.4, tarsus 20.0, middle toe minus claw 14.6. Locality - Mexico. On reverse 2 labels e Mus. P.L.Sclater Type P.Z.S. 1868, p.323 Zonotrichia quingue-striata Figd. BeC.A. Tab. 27 Mexico Gould B5.26h054405 Plus red type labile) with citation & additional note "Sclater Collection". Skin evidently never mounted; in bad condition with back of head missing; plumage slightly abraded; no sex. This bird is larger and slightly darker than 3 Jalisco specimens and the breast spot is large; black throat stripes at a maximum, and white at a minimun, particularly on chin. and throat. Examined at London, September 7, 1933. Remarks: 20 Sonara & Chihuahua do are wing 67-73 (70.5); taal 67-72 .(70sh)< OVER Ae J. Van Rossem om . : Peete ruayents. ‘* jas Sie) givise & Ge fer Riso ere mi Rees i a 2 fist quit ol nl pt (5 Baber ad. Gt ead, Se eee Ota ae Ss eames "he Te eGo Latte TAS Alone Joost oo BOLIVNY fe _ - gue ye ore seisingscly sau « «Oats. S ep iat ety T naar eel Dye $0 ¢a25 tate 22D 2 ears aOetlip sett OFT LA ened orem fanoiviihs Bamaliasi2 ie = (rads aEet ort uals Mining Gaye: oCinthiye oth. eolsleii eee / Bena (atlelin trail So feed tle galiibnhen Sed Be « ie i | Sekeica Vee ; epiet lal eiteage Teneo Yes cae Las qwosal el itd emt" Seemed Seals gayi! st soc. ccae'es 1A) Sa come towigagy gioprrat oh a fo of om bas ele A ca SOUTER yon) Ime nico ao tlralsoLiray ~ iter , Raney oohim da- Der eg } | : tt Pa iy+-44 ee) res iia won (Ames the ra ir A — ~~ ° pene _ Rav sa _ e Bur RON HaV ab « = ys : 6 i ue 7 SU r - ” : yp | ; ‘a Soa ' Na hi > iad No Collection 46106 M.C.Z. 99.2.1.2094 B.M. "f "f " " 2093 " 2095 " 2096 Depth Tarsus Middle Toe Minus Claw " Lloyd a ET YT IEE Date Locality Bolanos, Jalisco 6 65.0} 63.0/12.4] 7.2 119.5) 14.5] Richardson 2/20/89! Bolanos Jalisco ¢ 2/2189 " " 3 3/14/89 " " Sex ? 4/22/84 Nari, Sonora ? ) “ = c = = La ayy? Yesor ares i =| Ly 6 +6 eS i SA Aimophila rufescens meleodii Brewster w Pevcaea megarhyncha Salv. & Godm. Type No. Nem. Collection - Brit. Mus. Wing 63.5, tail 60.0, Culmen Exp. 14.8, depth 9.2, tarsus 21.9, middle to e minus claw 15.0, Lloyd, April 18, 18g. Santa Anna, Sonora. 3 tags — oldest Mus. S. & G. On reverse Melospiza Mexico Santa Anna Zen Ap. 18/88 Sonora Zoe Second Newer Mus. S & G tag - blank on face megarhyncha Type on reverse Third Brit. Mus. Type tag with transcription of data and citation but not numbered. Skin in good condition though asymetrical. Plumage much abraded for so early in year — tail especially so. I take it to be a bird of the previous year by the looks of the remiges and rectrices. Examined London, September 9, 1933. This is not the Santa Ana on maps, but a small place in the S.E. corner of the state. Ae J. Van Rossem a Tn rae _ = a 4 oY y pS haw is = mM - foes f : My : - ws is ; % me a i } ~ 7 ; : i i oe so ,) , oO" c | anbepunt Zbiy ion, seesaw tet eT eawe ly : a . a 7 ae wat, ea 2 dela Bea ee eee . ; -: ak ae Dee ete She os. flak

a] 309%, 2 348% ui2 eG or ee pagal Orie? Oth toe date ~~ 7 eels. ines mat i hind: tipo” & i = ciijaasbchda nme ok betes np ealie uae ee cit ote i ay, : ae. ; yg es.* $0) 4, t ii ie — : a oe a a Hy A Amblycercus holosericeus holosericeus (Lichtenstein) turnus holosericeus Licht. Psarocolius nigerrimus Wagler Types No. 7575. Collection - Berlin. Wing 89.5, tail 93.0, culmen base 28.6, depth 12.5, tarsus 31.1, middle toe minus claw 17.4, Deppe,marked d [but probably a 9] Alvarado. No. 7576. Collection - Berlin. Wing 101.0, tail 99.5, culmen base 32.7, depth 15.9, tarsus 35.7, middle toe minus claw 20, Deppe, "mas" Alvarado. Mounted birds in fair condition - plumage much abraded which accounts for the short tail of 7576. Stresemann has selected the smaller bird as the type, but both are cotypes. Both labels exactly the same Sturnus holosericeus ([Licht] Cab. * 1863 mas Alvarado 7575 Deppe S other one 7576] ¢ Cihasmene Gr. ve Sock Deppe S] Examined by me at Berlin on August 24, 1933. On the side of the stands Stresemann (?) has written (en each) Psarocolius nigerrimus* Wagler 29 Nec. Syst. Av. Remarks. *Meaning type. Ae Ve Van Rossem i — . nh eoroe naiets up’: SED Eats fisted / ge tiasl suenteselid eae ") r coftes pumice ie eee iieares? — cs : Mis see aly fhATS » badd vaxio? syey ete cae Pe ee A ies aga mentee Bales fai] & text 2.4500 isa wale enaln = * .labatisey LA - Y * Bad Ties, Veav essa. oe Tal = lean ware” an a ribbin , ? ml, sees? {Pv 6CL naqae leat ste See chezaviA “war” .oqaexi oS wails Sinise ¥ Tae Cepale = mole lore 1224 ne ehaid heck SS a2) Sa clas! feiie self <7 sdepvooRs Sosiht Seeeeep ee a Poel iaeet orye g@ Suld sei lesa ©62 beeles 6s) Cee = wd Gofere® S45°h) Joe »D etree a) eié Sgt oJ emeos iid. ui «@ wiree gt - cael © ded taint) s lh angi hiesd a “ ravage it pate ‘amea-tie, gimiss Ody Jouwkke oot | : el ae aublooaiees (fous way "ss Ammodramus savannarum bimaculatus Swainson Ammodramus bimaculatus Swainsin Type Philos. Mag. N.S. 1, 1827, 4351. No number, Collection - Cambridge. Wing 54.5, tail 38.5, culmen 11.3, no. sex, tarsus 19.7, middle toe minus claw 14.1. Bullock. Mexico [Temascaltepec] Ammodramus bimaculatis [sic] Old Swainson tag SW. Bullk. Mixico [sic] New Cambridge tag Coturniculus dixicrus Swainson Collection. Skin in fair condition though like most if not all Bullock skins, devoid of stuffing and flattened. Plumage fresh as though taken not later than midwinter. The longest "tertials" reach exactly to the tips of the longest primaries. This is not the western grasshopper sparrow, but the small, dark-colored race described as abscurus by Nelson. Identical (apparently breeding) specimens are at hand from Sola Oaxaca, Oaxaca City, Rio Blanco Chiapas, Jitotal, Chiapas, etc. Examined and compared at London, (ex Cambridge Mus) Sept. 23/1933. A, J. Van Rossem on | # * . yi ' 1 > ‘ae romain t Ye Kierwartence tmp keane, : a eat “re elle © ah iyo — 7 if pe oa _ ¥ ; Lian a id 7 i 7 7 ; . Hi if shen gies sree ite —_—- r i - ; nal 7 3 A _ iv ; “at i tes i a wh uh te) i 1 i } I i ae Airc EDC egg on OE ORL La) 5 teaiuer OR Rev widied 0.5. Gtysed (mus woe , 2-28 gemuse <2 ed Lseqe! (per sik Cad AE eid, WIA! Seis 7 ~ Pa Sy ; T \ Z —~T; - abot teeomy we 7 =~ otlané £20 ! i + Yt - c = 4 ; “i 4 > 7 = Qii — bd a up tf > di eines TT) ¢ a1. | ie oF 303 : b 7 eu v4 aie aay 7 ivi 2 Shit) : aan ayONI Pan ati tais : Je 2) Slgvet yi Rohe “amth ( ris he ¥ a al eee Dee i -tiol Jon qpsel daawis sateen ey iF 0). WE! Oi! a sss. "HL Tad ty ei eee : | ubatigcsat rental 5 aly ERE SOI G 0 yetwowe OAS Goa Oh eoet a Ao se C4 POTS Ie'S F4Sq Hew a ata (fame @ 3 ea Bie od OMY gbbsiav Ws >= rice gyn) cee ookt va tthid ait ERG kewego) es8) eeatate deh oye) Sealed Be | - » Papa pati kG eMatR eo R46) jpalerst Jo briegee page bonded | ax i -_ haar — os i : Ms h : : ; Tou 1h ey oy % ria ny n ; i 1 : ey) pi i thn | a 4 vn om ; ;o » i | ‘ 1 a win f my io 7. f I ny ’ os i ar 1 : ni ; ‘ i i cone a d i mi ) i! i r 1! i, 7 2 iy! in Pail! i a i i “1 My esi i ut ment Pah yt hd a i aa in J 1} WY Qphelocoma californica californica (Vigors) "G. palliatus de Drapiez" TYPE 52,6B Brussels. Wing 120, tail *133, culem from base 30.0, from nostril 21.5, depth, shot, tarsus 37-2, middle toe minus claw 22.5. Mounted bird in very bad condition - central pair of tail feathers shot off near bases; culmen broken by shot at nostrils; all primaries of left wing missing; no sex indicated but definitely a bird of the year as shown by narrow rectrices & lst year primaries: young bird just completing first fall plumage. This is "californica" in all particulars - underparts very pale - under tail coverts not blue (partly missing). I cannot find this name in synonymy, but should it appear the name is of certain subspecific application. It is cited in synonymy by Bonaparte (Notes Orn. Del.) but with no reference. In Dubois register appears | "5246B~—type du G. palliatus de Drapiez (Coll. Drapiez) This name is not in either the early Paris edition of Dict. Classique - nor in the later Brussels (Drapiez) work. Brussels, July 12, 1939. This specimen is identical in coloration with 3 speci- mens from "San Francisco". Bonaparte cites G[arrulus] palliatus Drapiez, p. 377. * To tips of second pair of rectrices - central pair missing. Check Zool.Journ. from vol. 1 on Vigors remarks. Ae Je Van Rossem a 5 oe — Be aa AY re Co ta a i : - ~ fi 5 q yen BO’, wesliggath: ob speatlan. art er Pa) art bee sad iu t oA Dori So-52 - 4 mein? Pie te ad fh Lies uy SLE mac > . i ae ae wal ACMI Gal ‘nbbh bin Por 7 gy Sree Crh e5 ee 1.) Lino tall wey wh-add he tawony , 7 geld Sen seau sil mai TG sitter h Thad “Rrkw Hie 0 Geiss Lia (elidsieda Satake 7 ‘. Sild 4 Visadintls> Am oelavibal «oF ‘CO e4nirelA ’ meet Jes Beriliton. Serta uo eruly on Teeh cu SEED Ger t Hats alaoi)) wii’, crrtct Srey —— Se eee bi — BELLIS, at HE" 2 aaa az. elt eis) buh? Jou wrens Dim | aasuire vias eave nek fe iz a ’ wit sess : 7 apace eis!” someon ml Sout dss tel donne Sy | Petre atlogn: 22 rote. charizs Tal GE ss Ree ba ne: a sans 4329 i1) iat a =) ryadn oak be. 9 ef ot | ; : usniviaiv: Gn Bolw 203 | - oir eh WARE aH ahichel’ ail @ axieo): ‘naboss0 mt Syl eect apaths figs Base a i rE as spit) ares Gills iets et Tee as) oe io Pare rH. #4 ER Ss: US Wiskg Me's ese tay pull? Aaa ie aPAT 2S, , , tele nde Tah Big eeiy lpGAidc [a .+ + GAA iee 42th. yer oe fig =p The pt . “ Vorhe 27" Lene . ets. (45am, |. Games ee (isin. *~s¢ Sorin gee © a | = RIDe Fe wi £6 iin bee) ae ee et Sk) = ; ie ec) (M@orzase rs yee sotyt +o eo) i _ GA. S48) SSS ae Bair ee hebby «ihape eo va VR RET TICS ; ho * ; ee oe a ac, % ee a] af, , : ate te a ae lo a ogi? > aT piers sae Peds ins LAW Sass Leb aa on XS dant toe ih Gel 2 age bene ; i". va e a Rae ROME) «’: rot le arta Aphelocoma cyanea (Vieiilot) No. 5603. Collection Paris Mus.*, Wing 116, tail 142, culmen broken, d prob. no sex, tarsus 36, middle toe minus claw 21. Michaux, No date, Locality Etats Unis, La Floride. No. 5605 [1854-1166*] Wing 107, tail 128, culmen 25, 9 prob. no sex, tarsus 31, middle toe minus claw 193. ? =No date. Etats Unis. *5603 is marked as the type of Garrulus caerulescens Vieillot. Mounted bird, soot stained and in poor condition. The inscription on the bottom of the stand reads "Etats Unis, La Floride, M. Michaux. Aphelocoma floridana Bart. G. coerulescens V. Type." Probably it is the type of G cyaneus not of caerulescens. *5605 marked as the type of Garrulus floridanus Bonaparte. Mounted bird in abraded plumage and very poor condition. "Etat Unis. Coll. Ch. Bonaparte, Garrulus floridanus Bp. Type." Above Ex. 7/28/1933. A. Je Van Rossem Chait 1) Porayy sangeet, ans saf¥ ; Ps ied ee wet Pee Lor eae Hight iran! isdn lov: .nctow sani ee ke a yotat 0° pxwniisie ik «sit sxaie. abd elhGes - enhuets as , tit etetl erase - meets Bf wf garth (SPRLL2S2) SE w ghee witita ie wd ft. a.ncuS? neh Oa sont gair) Weyer: arom nit. ed = saiecia Io Gey! ot? ha HeETew Be Kone a Sf nek batines PO5q ,frrte! Pela SOLStELY ) anid ty ceed. Gly ste 20 i lara ft preaben sec Mh eure? Af , Bex. bye pe atae oes Meow? «'f eaanpalerees a) pra ney soe alae “o won eeenrty ff areas ond ee at npsui* ged hbo % ahh oe oT | POA, a re bette a bile Ubi orgs, | | ete fed Aa amie ae See pet es P a Wada” ware? «qd awtabisel) siaru) ; , = * Aphelocoma sordida Garrulus sordidus Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 175, tail 158, culmen 29, depth 12, tarsus 45, middle toe minus claw 25. Bullock. Locality - "Mexico". ("Real del Monte]". Probably a lapsus and bird really from Temiscaltepec. Garrulus sordidus Sw. Bullock Mexico There is a size discrepancy between Swainson's original description (Philos. Mag. N. S. 1, June, 1827, 437) and his more detailed account (Zool. Tlustr. 2, Series 2, 1832, pl. 8&6 and text) published five years later. In the first he gives "total length, 11 inches; bill, 1-1/4; wings, 6-1/2; tall, 6-1/2; tarsi, 1-1/2". In Zool. Dllustr. he gives "Total length, 14 in.; bill, 1-1/2; wings 7; tarsi 1-7/10; tail, 6-1/2 in." Since even in the later publication he is specific about having only one specimen thege cannot be more than a holotype. "The Garrulus_sordidus inhabits the table land of Mexico from whence our specimen was received". The Cambridge specimeng suppljsmeasurements almost exactly as given by Swainson in Zodél. Illustr. and is unquestionally the type. It is filled with stuffing which is not usual with Bullock skins, - however the specimen is otherwise "Bullock", Very dirty below - hence "sordidus". Typical of the race now known as sieberii (Wagler) this latter becoming a synonym of sordida and potosina Nelson being resurrected. Remarks: Fresh winter plumage - probably a male. July 4, 1938. nah. Van Rossem ‘ “ a a ie t : - | ALLS 5 SORES a - | ie me. taal wit Aue Sng pelea: Sxps! dues ‘7 Ce jess of < arn ay #19) eee aioe aya | > = in = ia wie SUL, sy LS 7 7 . > " ae c 7 » Shed eet! la) 7 PaSnTLae? DNNO% Ss Marcy l™ - oc tt: i > Giaine | es a SM warty. oC 2c lies) Dee ae Gh farnss Wk wed oti, 56 FR Lis wa wf | As (sea Age? 5 os =) pice ase Be 8 S606 wl < .Tet # sk pecinatida “~ eet he 4 \& LAP pony os ari | . Healt ee aheele jt be‘, 7 saws tae . | MMe eRe (in 2.0t \! yo etes Steet! Sweep oie Ber fuer weiss Wi pe Di éwist oe B vhs 2a take Sg57 2 em Cal yelh tae igetliguresed oe Rot eid = (belitine Aa CP ie Naas ony ti is ziti loans A mits ; “it sR | ov pes fot} : pas an BEE 6 ay ee MaRS ae meat cag 5 acl avy a eas od | 7" ‘ Un od ea ail ef attl na ee) Sil. ey tse teh ae SE we cae we iorreeine’ Relpnacaniibh od oe os ren ; peat ae oa iat >t an 40 jt “so ee be sate, et > Qohelocoma ultramarina ultramarina Bonaparte Corvus ultramarinus Bonap. TYPE Garrulus ultramarinus of Vonspectus, pe. 378, part, ref. but not descript. No number. Leiden. Wing 181, tail 172, exp. culmen 28.4, from nostril 21.5+, depth at base 10.34 & base 11.2, tarsus 42.4, middle toe minus claw’22.8, tail grad. 20), “Cats ui Mexico. Cat. No. 1- Garrulus ultramarinus Bp. indiv. fig. Pl. col. 439 indiv. type de la Cyanocitta Sieberi de Bonaparte Consp. 1, p. 378 Mexique. Mounted bird in good condition, plumage showing a slight amount of abrasion; evidently collected in spring. No sex indicated; definitely a one-year-old bird as shown by the relatively narrow, pointed rectrices. Mounted length 13-3/4". Bill slightly more prominently hooked at tip than shown in plate. This is unmistakably the southern race (Sieberi Wagler; sordida Swainson). Temminck's plate matches exactly in detail of white exposed edge of left wing, but coloration of plate much too pale and too blue. Schlegel's catalogue (1, 1867 Uaracas, p. 64) gives, under Garrulus ultramarinus, "1.-—Individu du Mexico, figure dans Temm., pl. col. 439 sous le nom de Garrulus ultramarinus, et la type de la Cyanocitta Sieberi, Bonap. Consp. 1, pe 378 Temminck, in the text to * plate 439. (7L° Liv.), says Garrulus ultra- marinus. C. Bonap. "On trouve une corte indication de cette espéce nouvelle dans les Mémoires de la Sociéte’ philisophique de Philadelphie. Le prince de Musignano, Charles Bona- parte, a publié dans cet auvrage, parnie plusiers articles sur l'ornithologie des états Unis, les descriptions de deux peeeee d'oiseaux dérouveés E ae pur os Eacae eras we AE [eadoe nites: 2 Canes Se pet ays > D ' ts Dae of Fig neo 2 a vn pba stages gus eee " “ tee eek |) sae et : mF has Lt > | ee ~) te > § ee set : Apolo” 2. TA veae _ ois Sad 7 iefvad © Lary? ae liars iiaF _ . bd of as 7 - 1 deiveaetly anign=et ha ae «hOG ve") ‘pe q rapuit set! 4 — tly _ oe thie ecoe ie _ £u - ae? J? aerat : H: : rh te! Ded a> Dy ae ; = CNN IAS sR gases Wea, ULC? tne ‘at bes badesronk i ms bivalios Yili ew jes’ & i ee “ie pesy aloere ae © £ Le Vac a) (ieSSAG is BOs ou . 7 vv ) We ee Seow, es" he a Tis am 27 men ei Sr { 7 i ¢ ue Vlitstie oc? «2\ Gt. Viet Senne | wes eh SO pale GU de Reloys Genie, ae | : i) Gab uiecsiroe ett Y.d4 Soe Gtee ae ataT : 4 | 3 es din: oF kg Bayes aad Jecetitos eal ; me re re Pal 2G wh) Sempes wae Tr Cured fh ay etek ong kire Gliy |, '. ani ates tg i2 awning iw tothe on qRANAS TSE A), Gegmen tas ex acta 7 oe eae Ee 4m GOR af Hon 4? i ee 4, «fat . ew tal: os Serene as me oo Shaszsneetty Gilrice oe f. BRSee a! eR ATE wl, 5 cea) Rent RENTER < veered ar or & PAN) Be via ot saad a pea. af secret i récomient au Mexique; les premitres pages de ce Supplé— ment 4 L'Ornithologie américaine font mention du beau larruloe dont nous affrons ici le portrait". . Bidar s footnote, (359) is not correct. This speci- en is clearly stated by Schlegel to be the type of laparte's description (1850) - not the type of niabert Vagl. ay) a Ae J. Van Rossem put co ob 09; geen ss; et, tee Me pon times bY el Aas a Oy” ’ Lies tot Pr ian GL fet woevlin (uo iad Giese gia? gitar ty Joy x. ! 1) / ejursoos a! tambien mud n°. a = ¢ ions ntade ehtiace emer, nabes Muss ) AS i jadeegely s*e2ucaqenog. <4 _ oy | wigan teadeta | _-_— 2 - -_ 2 G@phelocoma unicolor unicolor (Du Bus) Cyanocorax unicolor Du Bus TYPE Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belg., 14, pt. 2, 1847, seance de 7 aout, p. 103. No. 5211. Brussels. Wing 172, tail 165, exp. culmen 29.5, from nostril 22.1, depth at nostril 11.5, tarsus 43.0, middle toe minus claw 24.0, tail grad. 27.4, = [Ghiesbrecht] "Tabasco". Mounted bird in good condition; pale blue eyes; plumage spring or early summer by wing & tail abrasion; fully adult; sex not indicated; probably male. By comparison with available specimens from Vera Paz, Guatemala, this specimen is, definitely, of the race now known as coebestis Ridgway. This might have been pre— dicted on the published measurements alone]! The original description was non-determinable on the basis of subspecific status - the only locality was "NYexique"; there was no indication of restricted locality and only the introductory statement thatethe various species there described were in the Brussels Musewn. How- ever, in the text of Esquire Ornith., pl. there is plenty of good evidence, not only as to number of speci- mens but of the various localities from which Du Bus had seen examples. These are "Tabasco, and San Pedro, near Oaxaca, in the cold comtry, and Tepitongo in the temperate country. I have also seen specimens from Vera Paz, Guatemala". There is also the observation that young birds have parti-colored bills (mandibles) and that the adults have bills entirely black. The original de- scription called for a black bill and 5211 is the only Mexican adult he had; furthermore the "over-all" length — the only measurement given in the original description - 33 cm. - is that of 5211. As contributary evidence, the measurements given in detail in plate apply only to this bird. ee) ee - iF ‘7 i, Se =. aa i On PAO tels BS sefeaoal sate: gre) 0 ak sears «5 Has & il hee hast alton Ue Sao List i 7 mk ka +4 thon feb amet tore» a! re vekeoeiat . cite “om sre bos $6 887.9 op oS Seteon wort eee RPE Lika 0.88 wale eunte vot wither 40.68 *opazin?". EeglerdesanOy © Bele yuiaionis ota ne bak basauelt ‘Lies Suakr Wi tubs Yop To Snsis naar: seb VLR otq cbesisebued jon ee fiubs eLivt ae ae grentaege otgeai 6 Sistema gy Fa ee Silk “ekcatiak san. , ef nyeinote a oad E nabd sya ongtn INT unig h i USigiots etatoyiicasa toute iat te biMadtrdet oor fan ol sno Somtaies eGR) i) at a ee ye BAe ook pans. otT + ui! = ge stosccame So alesd Mel Petoti257 Wo cokiesihi on sed Sed? pManpieeM ~" Partae ine ISts Ioowosats oved qubanaed edt Vina brs” ~ naesclt eiese idiots ns user sedbnosgb weet asiongs. aa poke 4 at LD ae Shes Younes ott ot weve. He yore oe yrs > : > dubipraty Sockeye F mc a peat delet len ei ae te el? x peiea< fe s-Stab . Gurr” a) she Gale’. os Pane: Sy onapdtqos be Soa Pe Met el) bigg ane: “mt, i ee osicaqaet, eke RAD aleercsedo eis- ceils ck arte | We Resiagimedts me en cee Bidmuiccbicsia) pi ix ae oa aah sito cee : 7 F pase bce ui: plans Fe bere epee ae s a0 oe vied Siemon BA \ TF oval ipdtbrs tay S ee LA PAa\ocowe A «Any cots” es - -“ - s . ~ Dubois has entered both 5211 and 4243 (see postea) as "type" in the register which gives the locality for 52i1l as "Tabasco" — hence Giesbrecht was the collector. Both of the other Mexican specimens are darker, more purplish, blue and both are young birds; they are good examples of what is currently known as "unicolor" {but not of Du Bus]. 4232. "OQ", wing 152, tail 154, bill 28.8, depth 11.1, tarsus 38.7, mid. toe cl. 24.1, tail grad. 36.0. Definitely a bird of the year just completing the post juvenile moult; Dubois has labelled it "92 type" (presumably because it was the only other Mexican specimen in the old Brussels collection); the register shows it to have been collected at 'Tepitongo"” by Galeotti. (Galeotti was at Tepitongo in Septexber, 1843). 5213. "dd", wing 160, tail 158, bill 29.5, depth d1.2, tarsus 41.0, mid. toe cl. 21.4, tail grad. 45.0 Like 4232, definitely a bird of the year, with mandible still partly bicolored at base. It is from the old Du Bus collection and though ticketed only as from "Mexique" is shom by the register as coming from "San Pedro, near Oaxaca", It is like the foregoing 4232, definitely "unicolor". Whether the collector was Galeotti or Ghiesbrecht I do not know. Since it was taken, obviously at the same time of the year, I suspect the former. Brussels - July 12, 1939 - all factors reconsidered July 19 and July 25, 1939. Note = concolor Cassin is available name for current Nynicolor!', A. J. Van Rossem ain, eget he iT mrnrenaadh Gin? Ma Uta. oe fh Ce ee a eT ai ive ute) ne) pr 7 Ss - hae ee ae x Se Wry he iw un = i MI ih ia te : i ; ae MEAP | : sus pace xii sf anew ‘aT BARONY bug a vhostnbied : talied hat ledss ten weecdd Sito’ ‘slinwyl, g a Donwa erie vee Std. eae oh. reciagas vdeo) a oa a, edpss uti 6.50 al nt prybn - 6 ib 7 : 4 ae er | an beak rt: Poy 4 cee Gl Gtuedice ys 10. 2pv 2oebelep) : it © al 7. oor - . : i a a oe ‘* : y Fe Sates Sth ated 404 gow yi ER | oem Meet chi lh cs, Ske acca Tan la ved heals ; peace Sane SS gE glochodiahy S654, quad a et RE RF setas So boc loosd Videsg gids eiditoms fi , eagacrh ie apie ee anne brag aul Sho ort 7] phon: st on) pe ek + ite ae aca oe ee me aeets Ae Agr st a at we ES ud sit ait ta ae | wita 2 Mea--< Gee. co gin whe hea | . Aa ao & aes, noe Aratinga canicularis Sittace Petzii (Lechlein MS) Wagler Type No. 21.111. Collection - Munchen. Wing *126.5, tail 87.0, culmen from cere 17.8, frontal band width 11.0, tarsus 13.0, middle toe minus claw 15.2. Petz. No sex. Mexico. Bird once mounted. Not in good condition. It had been caged at the time of death for the primaries except for the outermost one have been clipped off. Three tags - the oldest reading Psittacus Petzii. Lbln. Wagl. Aus Mexico (Dr. Petz). The second reads "Getauscht aus den Wiirzland Museum, Mexico Dr. Petz coll. The third is the red type tag. Examined by me at Munich on August 19, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem 1 ie ; - - i = al ‘ : Tart 7 ; 7" 7 - i uf) u r : ‘ eC ol, @hi brain sale: 9 eee bi 7 “* 7 oO v, i i i ; it = ., Se . : an ee 7 oon ‘hei i agg Tasy sit 7 30 O04! ot 7 A: oe ee | Sign, Sole t ; ; — PL al ene aun nos oae ie oe eae mr) yy: Paidyiad Saint .f. CS ores terst, aap VO Load ' u Peneie tall ee olet lo, .O.LL mamea® dd tala 6 0 . - mh i 2 ee cme al ste Sth wot or i Ps), fal tinmoc nc, Ri 7k ets eum Git | ae ies. (6? to: Aleiy lo Sie Vor ds Sys moan ae nf Pe oe hes fs ery. GVO? e930. Patariwes ee? Seé4 “eee ; PeLeeee Ue RI2i=. Baus: derhio eA) - = 2? Wot cn Peaveee ofT 3 (feoe2 ..) cere wh) ya ue OeLsee pseu Pope! te Tee lps tele. BOgeT, matiegy? be: Wi OL sche et. tion setGh obO2i “Te Priteth Gt A 5 * buntsacd >? yt mt > 7 J A. yi i i ei File Py at et 7 Ja i Archiplanus sclateri Dubois Agelaius sclateri Dubois TYPE 8764. Brussels. Wing 100, tail 94, culem from shield 26.7, depth at base 13.5, tarsus 27.6, middle toe minus claw, bent "Ecuador" Skin in good state of preservation - "Quito!" make and poorly prepared. I do not know the characters of immature for this species, but believe the in- dividual to be immature because of the brownish black wings, and tail (save for some of the secondary coverts) while the rest of the plumage is velvety intense black. The tag is written by Dubois, including the in- scription "Type". Brussels, July 29, 1939. This genus is very close to Amblycercus - rather the monotypic Amblycercus could easily be placed in Archiplanus the members of which differ consider= ably among themselves. | | | A. Je Van Rossem OO ee ee oe ore #4 ae Wage ems Sis ws wo wet Gi @yesce 4! et micygs G2 <4) 5ia2 Crttue : Sm _ Pa WOES oe 5 ce. fre4 @ af wilt ac « \ ama A . 4“ oe atic e ay ab J ae = | tt ty Pete i al Ve ah \ oy ® = * J WW a uD ; i on i * een i \ . Gg Lael uM an a - Figs ber : " ¢ rier fi ! RAEI ut i i 4 aed! ae & ial * nit i i == ng >) = 3 1 k-O@ a hia y >) : adh a j Lt wy 25) Sai @ 2 és 7 : 3 as re ~~ 2 ; 7. aff ia a 4 i Tee ms, iad 4 4 he 7 i. sue Sonat Fi { ad o! Bi 4 , %\ ¥i.4 3! n 7 t ? Pah f or 4 i i = i j y ie : Aulocorhynchus prasinus prasinus (Gould) Pteroglossus prasinus Gould Type No. 9689. Collection - Berlin. Wing 121.0, tail 112.0, culmen 73.0, Max stripe width 6.0, tarsus 34.2, middle toe minus claw 23.5. Deppe. December, Valle Real. written above Ramphostos pavoninus Gm. [crossed out and prasinus Gould] Pteroglossus pavoninus Wagl. Typus [in pencil] XT 1829 Valle-Real 9689 Deppe On the reverse side is written in pencil Typus von A. prasinus Gould! Skin, taken down from mount, in good condition & fresh plumage. Tail spots dark & maxillary stripe wide as normal for the race. No sex but probably a male adult. Examined by me August 30, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem * Ne sf pall i ‘ bi i li f x i : i \ Df i L | : iA = j 7 J i yi Baeolophus wollweberi wollweberi (Bonaparte) Lophophanes wollweberi Bonaparte Type No number. Collection Darmstadt. Wing 69, ‘tail 61.5, culmen chewed off, no sex, tarsus 6.2, middle toe minus claw 10.0. Mexico. Dismounted skin in bad condition - horn of culmen eaten off. In slightly worn plumage. Green tag attached. It is the dark, southern race, Meise Parus Wollweberi Westerm. [ann] Mexico Stresemann (2) has written G I Tp. Wollweber. The slip for the skin reads Geschenk des Herrn Wollweber, Examined by me Aug. 22, 1933 at Darmstadt. Ae Je Van Rossem 7 . A 7 : a tr ah i _ Low uy xt i Me ; . Rbrsanatmety Reece iby Gos c st CREE x aged =» x =A ; | Mi wi oy iy i sa Gu = : i : ; . | : 7 ; A nue ban] ve i ey KOS) ~ Mie wl . ere . — fl 1 eS ® 4 S S 4 YY hw > | eee. Lr iy eile ay 7 ‘ . - : : - . | ’ a , 5 yw * . v a eds s & os ‘ 3 : ; : 2 2° Gi p= Gan , ; tii a =~. z 7 , Lote 1s isd ety Deli, AS ee x, at at . aaa & o Peart, 2 (co 4 | US Sr rr Th ‘hd dal a “« _ : : bi uv ‘evi! , iy ee £ (= ! 4 ont be) 7 ae Th Me - Pia) lit d ae r _ - aeer, precy 8 ie nrg 4. ® ace pre cae | . . - oe < . _ < ~ f aut *) 4 ¥ aay c - ' . ei we i : - Z . ee o- ” : : 7 r 5 tom fy fT Ye ri oes oe ts f : ai tae. 2” : > f " apy "en |: oceL i ' ae > J bai " i ee 1 a. Pie | en J ig) a . aa ‘ Satoe i os —— " ; ; S10 : vas ' a wrk. 4 [otaD «4 eum Sort ai Oey Ge’ 7h} — At ‘a cat E> aero Cet: 14 iw * iy a rage ohie was) oe . ? oy | ow (G) vGhial ers Oe | volar | elvefsoeqes’ Waogee yi ther | pe ed Sarah eel : wets. oe do? " y 1 ee ines a! eontimuel 78 inte soi aeciat be et at ees oi ih” gets eval leti eds, get a “tse ia ae race vane Burhinus bistriatus bistriatus (Wagler) Charadrius histriatus Wagler Type No. 12897. Collection - Berlin. Wing 250.0, tail 125.0, culmen 51.3, [pr. a 2 ] No sex, tarsus 122.0, middle toe minus claw 37.0. Deppe. S. Mateo. Charadrius bistriatus* Wagl. 1829 S. Mateo. 12897 Deppe S. Mounted bird in good condition, plumage new, primary moult nearly completed, hence taken in fall. Examined August 31, 1933. Ae ds Van Rossem Lee ea, oni Par arial a “a _ aout velgal queglr ies eesabmaad), = | Ror gn. intinet + weseello: .TRRL on fad Kono | ¥ a reK 3 genial 0 eiies 4 . a Wo r t wae sntrem 4 eee io emo” oe VE, WRLD Bite a : i vi oe Hit eee eon i") ‘egawl YeScr .oelah oe encactlg gbdilincos sory uh, tis =i medd . i ati at aaa Ucar’ uv Si) j A BL & ni i he eek) (Ay om j i rr K \ toy ‘ Lt ra) “ih, brace hitaetics : : mead nal ot su . oT aa os Buteogallus anthracinus anthracinus (Lichtenstein) Morphnus mexicanus DuBus TYPE Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci., 14, pt. 2, 1847 (séance 7 Aug.) p. 102. | 4723. Brussels. Wing 375, tail 200, culmen from cere 27-1, depth at cere 17.1, tarsus 90, middle toe minus claw 43, middle claw, 21.0, hind claw 24.7. Mounted bird, fuliy adult, undoubtedly a 2. In ex- cellent condition and plumage. This specimen is the one upon which DuBus based his description, for it is the only adult from Tabasco and fits in all particulars. It was collected by Ghiesbrecht. Brussels, July 14, 1939. Ae Je Van Rossem Calocitta formosa pl. 436 Garrula gubernatrix Temminck TYPE No number. Leiden. Wing 165, tail 275, exp. culmen 32.5, & nostril 26.4, depth at nostril 14.5, & base 16.2, tarsus 45.0, Commencing with outer pair, tail feathers {on tamer we mm. show white\ on inner webs along the shaft for. Badly mounted bird, though in good state of preservation. Collected in spring or early summer judging from plumage wear. An adult 2 to judge by the bluish intermixture on crovm and by heavy black malar mark, This mark is decidedly heavier and more solid than is shown in the plate, - as if the artist had perhaps made a composit of the two specimens at hand. The "Cat. 2" is a male (presumably) with black crom, nearly obsolete malar spot and a small isolated black spot below the auriculars. As is usual with Temminck's plates the blue as figured is much too pale and too pure. The back and wings, however, are approximately correct in color. Examined at Leiden, July 6, 1939. Pica Bullockii Cat. 1: figuré pl. col. 436 Mexico oriental. See also Schlegel, Mus. Pays Bas, 1, Caracas, p. 43, 1867. Ae Je Van Rossem et f | (2 ® cori ; _ hen ‘a i 4 , hi + a " Ti 7 it Poo? exer ae ‘he ts ot bona gr as a 1 : : ; { iP ae "2 -_ iw eo secteuin, ef ate my weit! : pone Ty Wh: C1 te i he ih ’ ae : Hagel, "ad j cub 7 . y ; a aan ot 5 (! ] q 7 be a. . ve 's ete : t eos: ** : : ; Q ry rut Py. Lente i ant | . r f @isct — paral a * ha eet, 4 meen f i . i 7 y : ha fe ; iAq —— t vee i il > eA SS 7 is , H 94) 4 eifs yp ¥ Te 0 - cy ia : ‘ ri | : : y a yt * -- Pe aN ‘ er Co | _ 7 Te ee 1 doy aS 26) ony ae i eae se ee it cohen aan aed 4 is = q : : ; ia n o OF re WU aeons Det 7 an oo igos = ; _ « : Agee me wis reas \ ay wan erg ’ + +a CF | = Cal Ge 2a 7 oe phe LT Feiines 2: zed sapere” O.40 a min Splat ona a Calospiza larvata larvata Du Bus Calliste larvata Du Bus TYPE Esquises Orn., Do lara 1846, pl. 9 and text. 6970°. Brussels. Wing 70.5, tail 49.5, exp. culmen 9.5, tarsus 17.5, middle toe minus claw dik e:5:, Ghiesbrecht. "Tabasco". probably in early spring of 1838-1839. Mounted bird in very good condition; apparently a fully adult male; plumage very slightly worn. Wing & tail edgings light bluish green, not golden as in plate; greater coverts edged with light green, caerulean blue on outer webs terminally; crovn more greenish yellow than plate. However, pattern de- tails match and there can be no doubt that this is the type - just as listed by Dubois. "6970b type Tabasco, Mexico (voy Ghiesbrecht)" 6970 Du Bois also has listed the second Tabasco speci- men mentioned by DuBus as a "type", but DuBus is explicit as to the individual which he has describ- ed and pictured and this second "type" is a para- type only. "This new and charming species of the genus Calliste was discovered in the Province of Tabasco, Mexico by Mr. ALuguste] Ghiesbrecht, and sent by him to the Museum of Bruxells, in 1841". Ae Je Van Rossem , ; i ‘hs _ oe *, Le Haren - 7 ‘ Bb we ri . 1 5 vf + a " Koil : . 7 i ) 2 : nie none i iit ' ei Mi i ' ie Cs el srt eer tt ‘* H ; ; en wit | | een i * ; - o> ah it » r 4 : . og | wae iitbap nee \ nal i - -_— ye i” oe : PS wath yr am ae 7”, fy r : s o On we. 1 wy) i : i j Je) 7 Ric Sr i j ale , - ia opt he 1 ha LAA bd ; P a heresy o> oes, dell 4 | ea fit: (a> fo’ . ee i | jmlg a ure. otter. | ah, brie A ? = ; wt tin ds oni Gel Pes Os ek i\) ; 7 a _ iV ugh | “ s pay) P . we ee, hii is Vee é : f he , = i spt hah aie sere, ? PCa bs) ae 2+. 8 shierges- eo¥ em, atl ies . AS 2%, oon Ses tin Ad rtp Sh aH fi ph tg OS Sas > meaty lar iy Caprimulgus macromystax Wagler TypeX er. Collection —- Miinche i 9, tail ates: S 35, tarsus 19.2, middle toe min -8, Karwinsky do Mexico. Outer lateral 10 along sinner web ateral rectrice 21 along vane. No number. Collection - Minchen. Wing 161, tail missing, culmen broken off, whiskers 27.0, tarsus 19.7, middle toe minus claw 16.6, Karwinski. Sex ?, Mexico. Taken down from mounts — both birds in very poor condition and probably considerably faded. In their present condition they are not in good shape for comparison. The under tail coverts, of the only specimen of wiich there is mich of anything left, are immaculate buff. However they are eastern whippoorwills, pure and simple, and the name macromystax is a synonym of vociferous! Types examined by me at Mllnich on August 19, 1933. ote eee”, u1.C. . Ae J. Van Rossem AS Atk, cs ee a eg oh ie oat) ee ee ek ee weet poste Pear de | ; bat : teh, it ee cite a cae) ea asp Line ei eae ‘oie _ id RT, one Lenk ac, an ae ae Bical’ a2 TRL ; eae f a i ial th ee » et ( wp 2) aa “eo = Fag eeys 1S Te ‘tad he Pure yy “= me Awan” 2. Tr yo alan ae aes iui woe a 1 i “f. a iad eat a i ey 2 Cassiculus Icterus diadematus Temminck TYPE No number. Leiden. Wing 126, tail 106, culmen base 37.5, depth at base 12.8, tarsus 31.0, middle toe minus claw 18.4. Mounted bird in good conditon - a female by plumage and apparently adult. Slightly abraded ie late winter or early spring. Old label Icterus diadematus T. Temm. pl. col. 482 Mexique Agrees exactly with plate - including 2 dusky spots on inner "tertials". A, Je Van Rossem a” u ed I ; Lon i my OR ae — Kime P ar, ber . eaten Fh. aie es Fo Si ssektae solar et ‘oe: cay SE sea ao ZO "y aria vt - . ted S ‘hw Cidyone ASMA Le rig” ‘tenn ws rh Catharus melpomene melpomene (Cabanis) Turdus melpomene Cabanis No. 3445. Collection- Berlin. Wing 80.0, tail 67.5, culmen 15.0 [¢ ad.J], tarsus 31.6, middle toe minus claw 17.5. Deppe. Locality Xalapa. Turdus melpomene Mas. Cab. 1850 Xalapa 3445 Deppe S. Mounted bird in good condition, though of course reddened through post mortem change. Fresh, almost totally unabraded plumage. Type examined August 28, 1933. Ae de Van Rossem re: et igo a ch. tet - xv ttaohted- ; ype ‘ait P we rr" “A eamei tA — = Oult, Chee? , 1s oJ ony BEng 9 ak, os ee : : er-Uiee ya : . a Nel Nivascy ne0d i ‘ a ‘ oa ; tine dial : ; re Lend ib etd +o Bs : a 5 bie = is a id) AO ane at. “oe ito 7 > ie (oe eo eT ie ny pewhoet: woxatui ie bsveslans LI aa po te om iy > Soievhk bacinae’ nites . fie ocues sh! eit’ wy a, ; Mw e 7 : ra € # a 7 a a et Centurus hypopolius (Wagler) Picus hypopolius Wagler Types No. 10560. Berlin. Wing 124.0, Gaal = moult, Q culmen Exp. 24.0, tarsus 20.3, outer ant. toe minus claw 15.7, Deppe. Tehuacan [Puebla] No. 10559. Berlin. Wing-moult, tail 77.0, Exp. culmen 25.8, d, tarsus 19.6, outer ant. toe minus claw 16.2. Deppe. Tehuacan [Puebla] Picus hypopolius Wagl.* 1829 Sit Typ. Tehuacan 10560 Deppe [ & 59] Skins, taken down from mount and in fair con- dition. Both are in the midst of the annual moult. Rump heavily streaked. Examined by me August 29, 1933. The female has been tagged by someone as the type. Ae Je Van Rossem 4 pete iiv) vite 4 . a 16 wen 7 i 5 s fk apne f a »@ ‘ “ r 2 @ © awed WAY 4's cw eh 4 na are lie 4 2 ‘ en y be - pee Bette ' 39 Ae oie —< Ll ‘vy Ade C(aacrt Le gh ard iii ‘ Ay 3) oy bg by Centurus aurifrons Picus aurifrons Wagler Type No. 10552. Collection - Berlin. Wing 134.0, tail 81.0, culmen 33.7, tarsus 24.3, middle toe minus claw 18.4. Deppe. Locality - Ismiquilpan [Hidalgo per R.R. ] Picus aurifrons *Wagl. 1829 Gms Typ Ismilquilpan 10552 Deppe Skin taken down from mount, in fair condition, moderately abraded plumage (as if in spring). Nape orange with reddish flecks. Belly yellow. Examined Berlin August 30, 1933. A. J. Van Rossem sonst ait 7 4 tie az vagal _ a a antl. iy \ by aS we od ‘gael l60 «1 sp ant ou aisiir au an oa vl a ohh "LGIt” & ~» cad ih ps Li if : ~heige (eb euback abot eto l. g ft oul A mer y he fs sea ; le ate Pati Seg yp! ao a ma ae JES, Gee lits! (Osis iter, ee Be vil 29 “gine nat 4 fat hii) BSGETUD FAAS . une! DEY rad 7] Z uy oe ibe — a = _ a _—— ako 4 . 1 La) es 4 Lep dey gor) ions sled pee) ty Babes ft) hahha hg) ° ~it) 2 et*Satleee | Centurus Centurus hoffmannii Cabanis Types No. 16,199 Berlin. Wing 125.5, tail 60.0, culmen 27.1 [d ad.], tarsus 20.0, middle toe minus claw 18.4.. Hoffmann. Locality Kosta Rika. No. 16,200 Berlin. Wing 116.0, tail 54.5, culmen 22.0, [2 ad.], tarsus 18.0, middle toe minus claw dfeee Hoffmann. Kosta Rika. Centurus hoffmannii Cab. 1862 3 [ &Q] Typ. Kosta Rica 16199 Hoffmann. [ & 16200] Skins, taken down from mount, 2 still with glass eyes. Plumage abraded as though taken in summer. The do has a small red crown patch as in uropygialas, this prolonged backwards narrowly to blend abruptly with the orange necked area. Belly of 6 ochre yellow, 2 yellow. Examined at Berlin August 30, 1933. A. J. Van Rossem fa Centurus uropygialis sulfuriventer Reichenbach Centurus sulfuriventer Reichenbach Types No. 18,182 New 8338 Old Collection - Dresden. Wing 122.5, tail 76.0, culmen - tip missing, d ad., middle toe minus claw 17.0, tarsus -—-, Spangenberg. "Mexico", No. 18,182 New 7538 Old Collection - Dresden. Wing 121.0, tail 78.0, culmen - tip missing, 2 ad., tarsus -- middle toe minus claw 16.3, Spangenberg. "Mexico", 3 Skins, in rather poor condition, taken dow from mount and tarsi so warped that measurements are worthless. Plumage only slightly abraded, as though taken in early fall. Rump heavily barred, back barring strongly tinged with buff the color of the back. Allowing for fade these specimens may be safely considered the Jalisco) race. Types examined at Dresden, September 1, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem ih = Pia? y harry lene I he eee ee peas | | | . i -_ ” ¥ at ie 4 J “” \, : ara ay I : Rae re | Ex, ai ate Ty, es Se TL! ‘ ] bs Pith ct bite ne ait : ir re iy eo nee : iy es eee a J dn Lna = gets Tho Satis oot. an a) aL ae) ae 5 : - Lf 7 a » a ar els a ia adil 6 fe : ; we = : ,} 7 } yay a 7 red Pet. fa’, Y ad (0 Mg ae Pre Fea if “i: eae i on < a 4, . shes HAT wits? a wR a) et nae dpitia ha , if . - i nip a aes 18h oe uur” ‘7 fy Lalg4 a0 7 eA ie tahiti oa iy ee uf Centurus uropygialis sulfuriventer Reichenbach Zehrapicus kaupii "Bonap" Malherbe Types No number. Darmstadt. Wing 128.0, tail 82.5, culmen 31.0, depth at gonys 7.2, tarsus 21.0, middle toe minus claw 19.4. ¢ Mexico. No number. Darmstadt. Wing 121.0, tail 73.0, culmen broken off, depth at gonys 5.6, tarsus 19.0, middle toe minus claw 17.8, 2 Mexico. Tags attached Centurus hypopolius Wagl. Q 2 Mexico [and] 3 Mexico Examined by me at Darmstadt Aug. 22, 1933. These are the only birds in the Darmstadt collection to which the description could apply. Dismounted but still retaining glass eyes. The rumps of both birds heavily barred like back and the upper tail coverts but slightly less heavily so. Plumage only slightly abraded. Remarks: The basis of kaupii was Bonaparte's ms. description based on a specimen [s] at Darmstadt. The above birds are of necessity the types. Asal Van Rossem ayes uf : ep tlm } $ ue Ti i 1 eet a ii ey a“ bu e Wein) CUE @Ot To. osetia pene ve wO LL S elieg child) oobi e7eQ) = Yielesod Te ROSS AbD oa, OL - ae” a7 Mei iyie p> Luka “weed! ect ene mamlog/ OSE Dy : eo 5 ‘ a Tita gPiteOT DRT ry : c a BLl thy - Ged vor eden eevee Helegals Llid) sith alfou « Wh tage in L- Pi Arba, “bo GP: ba hr r Leb 4 be, ew? Boas a ae ae A i ty CA. ty , a ee Vite svitioacd dL ch: Lhe abies 903 syst etait iy Banca. leqa cml? ahtedys epadt * SaattewE oe LARMoyMR teh chaps + wwesd eal ainiomyitiogei ne ea ited ee fai OM Ore. “Met os \ toe nf SYA Ct 4G, pape tf. vd, " ; ml fees eat To saliqin role Leola xb": cay ab ety? ae. kre ee inet SETA SO has i oh) Ladin @ ae & alae? a #199, pit sh RIND Ged me she? oaqs tlne echt’ ob edt” Pee Mawete ot « dolce k... Ledemdol” fe noitgeraeeb eo eee She GY si tiated «! Janel seo e tote sme Dep. ie aoe te 42 Pro.oy of Jkhe em woe oo barrens Ceophloeus schulzi (Cabanis) Phloeotomus schulzi Cabanis Type No. 26,281. Collection - Berlin. Wing 164.0, tail 107.5, culmen 34.4, [ad. d], tarsus 21.5, middle toe minus claw 21.6. Schulz. Date "17-V-80". Locality - Cordoba. Phloeotomus schulzi CLro % Cab.* 1883 ea type tag by Rensch | Ly Vi 80 Mas. Cordoba 26281 Schulz S. Mounted bird in excellent condition and in fresh, unabraded plumage. This bird is a miniature pileated woodpecker in color save that the under wing coverts are chiefly black (the axillars edge of wing and shorter under wing coverts creamy white; primaries wnite at base on underside) and the whole body plumage is dull velvety black, not slaty. There is no white supra auricular streak. Examined at Berlin September 2, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem Sido OS » SBS, Oe aa es hadd ciemaharay, CaSO -_ ae Pid? wale aprils obs ee wee? 0 YA Lee) Tae of Utew wa apo 4 seta fr w he Fulah a [Es BAY dae: lie > 421 ie Sab wealtttd : goo Cae eal i ie OND Dao ‘vy castebte sh uh 0 ata sok Slagle + al me aA bin - Chlorophonia occipitalis (Du Bus) Emphonia occipitalis Du Bus TYPE Exquire Orn. 3° liv. 1847, pl. 14 & text. 706ly Brussels. Wing 77, tail 45, exp. culmen 8.9, depth 6.8, tarsus 18.5, middle toe minus claw 13-7. Mounted bird in good condition - apparently adult 2, plumage fresh. Dubois catalog lists four individuals from the DuBus collection, the present one being the only ad. 9 from Mexico. Plate and measurements match the specimen. Brussels, July 14, 1939. Although there is no indication of locality either on the stand or in Du Bus text it seems most likely that this moulting specimen and also a young bird in mixed post-juvenile moult were taken at San Pedro Nolasco near Oaxaca by Galeotti in September 1838 or 1839. "Tabasco" by Ghiesbrecht is not probable, for his birds from there are either spring or early Summer. Miradar, the only other highland locality in which Ghiezbrecht collected (so far as I know) might be designated. Central rectrices in moult. A, Je Van Rossem Chondestes grammacus strigatus Swainson Chondestes strigata Swainson Type Philos. Mag. Ne. S. 1, 1827, 435. No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 87.0, tail 71.0, culmen 12.4, depth 8.8, tarsus 21.0, middle toe minus claw 14.8 (Bullock//] Locality - Mexico. Chondes strigata Chondestes Old Swainson tag Sw grammaca Bullk. Mexico. New Cambridge tag. Skin in poor condition, flat with almost no stuffing.. Plumage slightly abraded. Compared at British Museum (6x Cambridge) 9/25/33. A typical western lark sparrow of the darker type. Ae J-Van Rossem i Chondrohierax Falco vitticaudus Max von Neuwied TYPE Beitruge zur Nat. von Brasilien, 3, 1830, 178. No number. Leiden. Wing 268, tail 171, culmen from cere 29.3, depth of maxilla at cere 12.4, tarsus 36.0, middle toe minus claw 27.2. Gray tail tip 9 mine $ subterminal black band 60 mm; white band 70 mm. Mounted bird in good state of preservation; eyes with bluish white iris. No sex indicated, but probably a male by sex. Plumage uniform dark plumbeous, slightly darker than as pictured in Temminck's plate 103. This is the first of the three cotypes figured by Temminck under the name of "Falco uncinatus I[lliger (Bi col, 18" hiv. ds2u) “pls. 103, 104; 215° text). It was sent to Temminck b von Neuwied under the MS. name of Falco vitticaudus, at probably the same time that von Neuwied sent Temminck notes on colors of soft parts (see footnote to 3rd page of text). Six years later von Neuwied issued his own description with the specific reference to plate 103, together with the statement that Temminck's description was a composite of two distinct species. His action necessarily restricts the name uncinatus to the species figured in plates 104 and 115. * See Schlegel, Mus. P.B. ll, Pernes, p. 8 A. J. Van Rossem “ Sl ati Sa tilinliMictiR lh bt antntnidsl a 2 tial nade Chrysomatris xentheogaster spinus Chrysomitris xanthogastra DuBus TYPE 8086 Brussels. Wing 61.5, tail 36.0, exp. culmen 8.8, depth at base 6.8, tarsus 13.8, middle toe minus claw 10.0 "dg". Ocafia, Colombia. Yellow patch on primaries extending 9 mm. beyond greater coverts. Tail black for 17 mm. terminally on 3rd from outside rectrix. Mounted bird in good condition; adult male by plumage. Plumage very fresh & specimen probably taken soon after completion of the moult. 8086 ¢ Type. Ocafia (Nelle Granade) (Coll. DuB.) At the edge of the register was once pasted the old DuBus label, but this has disappeared. Brussels, July 19, 1939. Measurements smaller than Ridgway gives for "bryanti" of Dota Costa Ricae Perhaps 2 races. “Ae J. Van Rossem Ciccaba virgata Strix squamulata Bonaparte TYPE No number, Leiden. Wing 252, tail 147, culmen 18.2, tarsus -, middle toe minus claw 30. Mounted bird in not too good condition. A juvenile which is just moulting the last down — though the nape is composed entirely of juvenile feathers. Definitely reddened through exposure to light and probably somewhat paler from the same cause. Ground color of under parts white with a slight creany tinge; white spots (cream-colored) on head sagittate rather than crescentic [ this size]; spotting on back much more prominent than in the 5 Guatemala specimens with which it has been compared; tarsi immaculate buffy white; striping on underparts 5 mm. broad; tail with 4 bands (6 mm.) and tip (10m) of dull white freckled with grayish brown; tail fuscous brown (originally probably grayish brow). Examined at Leiden July A 2995.6 On bottom of stand SU? Strix squamata Now 12.9) Gab.onosed de Berlin Mexique. A, J.Van Rossem pi es i a nt si i aa i a Nh ht nnn Be ns hte ak ™ Colaptes cafer mexicanus Swainson “@Picusf rubicatus Wagler Type No. 10721. Collection - Berlin. Wing 156.0, tail 98.0, culmen 40.0 Jad. dJ], tarsus 27.2, middle toe minus claw 23.2. Deppe. Locality - Chico. Piens cater Gm. 1788 Picus rubicatus Wagl* 1829 Chico 10721 6 Deppe Typ. Skin taken down from mount, in fair condition, but plumage terribly abraded as though taken in late summer. Coloration dark, pileum grayish brown. Type examined at Berlin Aug. 29, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem wake RY corco 4S. 8S tso Sedeled ; i Poy PAX - - —<; " . ee et Ol aid ty ht dole o he he a > - ona. ) ta ” Or. Go So Sorc aos : siouy aunts rr rt) FSVOL oo sin the 4 W rR AL ro} bye 410; 1 rat on pris 1 sud gy 5 noiseteiody «a a TEI ES hath - 71! it @ociene nts Vv. ; Clarayis mondetoura mondetoura Bonaparte mondetoura Types Number 11564 1856 No 544 Wing 119, tail 85, exp. culmen 14.5, 3 "type", tarsus 25.7, middle toe minus claw 22.3, Levrand. Locality - Venezuela. UL Number 11565 1856 No 541 Wing 117, tail 82, exp. culmen 13.0, 2 "type", tarsus 24.3, middle toe minus claw 21.7, Levrand. Locality - Venezuela. A Mounted birds in fair condition, though very dirty and soot stained. Examined by me at Paris July, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem ; : ; ; ~ ro cay tw ee) . | : ave eg an ”" 2 pte te eben Cie, Eh Ee ASCEND, pa hice: tua), pak aaa oe | el Ss seat: a meetin ox, «tt het Se Waki SPR “aM ogo. eI, SEL: io.s balth mt st BEET PT e | pido sno Ts es fanod bitertienl aad : . 3 ee tt eau Sa dni. ou wor eee ae ot dhl. ' 7 > > as smi): Bary ies pee satan 4 ‘ ee sin ob s beta i! 2M ee qt eo os 12 31 DSS ta! Ah ewiis ta deo oealise -Ae Bie veer t- 3 Ger - , » £ wists ; od bons ie i wae ack. t J ; aya, ne iy it 1 - 7 : = i ATT i 2 oe 4 oe iy ; 4 ies Sid YMC : sr dh ee —— 7 Ds 7 os : me oa Colinus leucopogon leucopogon Lesson Ortyx leucopogon Lesson Type No. 12.574. Collection - Par. Mus., Wing 100.0, tail 61.0, culmen 12.2, tarsus 28.0, middle toe minus claw 22.5. San Carlos (Centre Amerique). Poorly mounted bird, badly sootstained; not sexed but in adult male plumage, slightly abraded. "Saus [sic] Carlos (Centre Amerique) Donne par M. Lesson. " Ortyx leucopogon Less. type d' 1' espéce, type de la planche 36 de M. Desmurs. 12.574 Eupsychortyx leucopogon (Less) Plus petit que Eupsychortyx - Leucopogon Gould." It would thus appear that the bird in Cambridge is not the type of Desmur's plate. Type examined at Paris July 31, 1933. A, J.Van Rossem figs be MOORS Pf yet kote ime AR Pere Rae Oe nee [6d » «S72 RL bi om OL Uias - MAS Sinha * ertd) mopeqoouel yh aa @ A Ay oaoogwes i : Omak sees $5 me cup sani Bivow ei: wet DERVArS (LAV aw % Cae vat m a Colinus leucopogon sclateri (Bonaparte) Eupsychortyx sclateri Bonaparte - Type Old New 1853-419 12,575 Collection - Paris. Wing 100.0, tail 51.0, culmen 12.1, [d] tarsus 27.5, middle toe minus claw 21.0. Delattre. Locality - NGalaf orice, é Mounted bird in fair condition. A fully adult male, though not so marked. On the bottom of the stand is "de Californie, acquis a M. Delattre, en 1853 (Cat. No. 419), Eupsychortyx Sclateri Bp. 12575" This bird is a typical ."leylandi". While there is no indication that this bird is the type the probabilities are that such is the case. In the catalogue for 1853 I find that this is the only Ortyx listed in a lot of 70 birds acquired from Delattre and which contained the types of several of Bonaparte's new species. Presumably it is the Examined by me at Paris, August 2, 1933] BLE ET es SATAN IM TE SE NEE A "Eupsychortyx parvi cristatus, Gould" which he mentions on page 93 of his "notes Orn. Coll." presumably from "Californie", Preis The first (and only) description I can find is in Comptes Rendus XLII, No. 20, (séance du) Mai 19, 1856, Pe (eis) Ae = Ste ne it oe "7. Eupsichortyx [sic] sclateri, Bp., n'a pas besoinde description: e'est la seule espéce du geure qui Over } by ; \ f yn laa a itt te sh ait la garge noire, et par cette circonstance et par son aspect général elle ressemble a Lophortyx californica et a une veritable Ortyx." Examined by me Aug. 3, 1933 at Paris. Name dates from the séance du Lundi-12:-Mai, 1856 where in a tabular list of the species of Eupsichortyx on page 883, there occurs 266 sclateri, S. i - (Bups. gula nigra) Eupsichortyx sclateri Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, XLII, No. 19, [séance du] May 12,.1859, (No locality mentioned but type from "Ualifornia [error = western Nicaragua]). L A. J.Van Ross em oe > oo. unde peanr te, S5ta0 oie St, iy oe” so eth, ® a i - us nai! same : ea Oy Ta ei dhe beg a afemoanene el ES Larhipey a eke ie te dog ell Ms hae ie a Mine Poy G - tf : 4 iy i. cd ave ‘ tJ a’ ut @ aila O< nent” a Oute Wik = Urls, seqyad if soar site oF 4 ree nS a if *~ f wy ‘ae it terv.LA phd: ie if Hgau't 7°, 020 (Pit> Week ref Bop Bet Fie Fs woOM \ i wit = 34 a (in Fey bad 4) ‘ - I Lvod Peees< | fied ~ : SLT gy aD Ole OS™, ‘CEL i aeerah, shade | filed 2.28 ynta_ ntiieu, - soduoektober cttaes a6 » art » an? Maw se cae . nd ma OL, hat _ A ty ord © ies Mme : Cvanocorax violaceus DuBus TYPES zxqe Orn. Pl. 30 - (1847) 5216. Brussels. Ving 191, tail 158, culmen from nostril 26.0, depth at nostril 14.5, tarsus 49.8, middle toe minus claw 28.3. "Mexique”. 5217. Brussels. Wing 192, tail 163, culmen from nostril 27.6, depth at nostril 14.6, tarsus 50.2, middle toe minus claw 27.0, Baron Popelaire de Terloo "Bolivie?" "dl", Dubois has marked these on the register as types, pre- sumably correctly since he knew DuBus and the birds with which he was dealing. Both localities are questioned on the present labels. Popelaire collected extensively in Peru. There is, in the register another specimen from "Cerca de Angostura "(Venezuela)" from Parzudaki. Mounted birds in good condition. Plumage of both is relatively fresh - winter or early spring. Both are "twins" for coloration, save that 5217 is very slightly paler below. Brussels July 19, 1939. The individual which is the actual type will have to be picked from DuBus texte Ae J.Van Rossem it i. = - ‘ ‘ oe " Thies aon eu eet gi A Olay ate ‘es fi “ar ee , i svc6y @o2- SLO “ Pye y 4 > merit «the “ r* ~~ a 7 el m= ( s > wa eo aa 's | 4 ¢ Palhy tht, Pe ass VAP dent 4 NA Subd, ; a | 1 « bebe 40 ———— nv ‘. j F J Wa gi in 8s 5 j Sees) ee ne 6 ARs it At ove et? oy ROAR See st dhtitw Lecdtvibeat ea did moet bedwty qed Cyanocyca turcosa SS Cyanocitta turcosa Bonaparte TYPE Bp. Coll, Del. 1.8. 5227. Brussels. Wing 137, tail 150, culmen from nostril 21.2, depth at nostril ies tarsus 42.0 middle toe minus claw 20.5. "Ecuador", Mounted bird in good condition save that most of right rectrices are missing as are also feathers from chin and left malar region. Plumage quite fresh and no fade apparent anywhere. Tail in moult on latteral rectrices. In the register of Dubois this is entered along with 5228 as "determiné par Bonaparte". It was purchased from Verreaux - but in what year is not stated, If these two be cotypes - as seems probable, then the name turcosa very much better fits the turquoise colored "Colombia" specimen than it does the distinctly violaceous specimen at present marked as the type. 5228. Wing 147, tail 160, culmen from nostril 21. 3. ses at nostril 1223, tarsus 43.3, middle toe minus claw 22.6, "Colombie'. Mounted bird in good condition - ex Verreaux and accord ing to the register determined by Bonaparte himself. 5227 Matches exactly some recent Ecuadorian specimens heree Hellmayr says type in Paris - who is right 22? A specimen from "Colombie" (ex Verreaux) is mich lighter and more greenish blue - in fact it lacks any violaceous shade anywhere. Ae JeVan Rossem ane . . : sal ght ; : poe ne i \ rt 4 ; ‘ y . 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Tr4 av Phe ee _ a } oe . fk i . 7 hakeuree. most *¥ Hideo ot one Mawae Boer = £Te Fe st avid E23 ats vd sor chee aan eae im Sit gee HL thas! pa sSiae ing tet ‘pete led a Pcate-ans ody pte nalgete ion: See. oe Tre . eer . . oF ; ; o tye ois i i 1 —_* oF . te nibe yn fm Ss : I a” feant-veZ Piper _ | [em®. a .S8 mad atthe . 4 i 4 rrety sie iing nt gtk nosso Bs eooratey si®etaet eal et Qt a4 ~elgng Cee eit DES nen dee. is : a ; t S2NGG . is be . ~ geront.Ge oad TSS, Dae a abeshe ek “kb” wy. ae) ert Sens st Pik | fe Lees ; - ay) : mit yA coy Le 77) >. | we vh BSS.) “40 am - i, ; _ ee: - | oa Cyanolyca nana Cyanocorax nanus DuBus TYPE Bull. de L'Academic Royale des Belg. 14, pt. 2, no. 7 seance de 7 aout, 1847, pe 103 (Bruxelles) 3 5210. Brussels... Wing 103, tail 98.5, exp. & fr. nostril culmen 12.4, 16.0, depth at nostril 17.2, tarsus 28.8, middle toe minus claw 14.7, tail grad. 2h. 5e Mounted bird in excellent condition; plumage apparently winter; pale blue eyes; apparently fully adult; sex not indicated. Forehead & superciliary dull ashy blue; throat bluish white & distinctly paler than forehead; back distinctly duller than crown; median underpart paler & duller than back - almost bluish ash. Cyanocitta nana (Du Bus) type written by Dubois Hab. Mexique Loc. Mexique 5210 Dubois register gives this specimen (5210) as the type, but there are no data as to collector or specific locality - other than "Mexique (Coll. DuB. )." Brussels, July ll, 1939. Pictured plate 33 (dated 1850) in Exquire Orn. Brit. Mus. Aug. 14,'39. 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Garrulina nana Guatemala 1848 No 54a Procured by in Bps Bp ex Strickland Je Constancia pone Se Type pumilo St. Cyanocitta pumilo Catalogue p. 292 Now A335) va. Skin in fair condition & slightly abraded plumage. No sex - probably a 9. Examined at Cambridge Sept. 21, 1933. A, J.Van Rossem 7 4 : Madly BF, f ag at Nad 5 ‘# r guy Fi rao lines) Sl oe BOTA OEY ‘ _[— ere if ; +) SON: MSTORAsE Ye = ne meg oo . ll re ; _ , ‘a qos td ra lth, x xe Lc 7 - F . . ‘ $5 - ‘ ’ MR a 2 fasd Cie ts ty Sy hd. OM. y i - + ' rt? . $ io ; fe ee ) me eel Wh - a f eas “> ee re & « . eS : a a gh tr Leo uh « S00 he eg a =a mor, selon tag ‘tied ANG ree ft \ c ‘Ty bap ot eres, a» aly SLAG LITE eS gG sre «Gal [r ee al ark 7 tbe. ; ae 4 7) : \ ~e 7 prey v¢ tlw ce wie ae a, 3 4 % J Tr ; de. bh Tn be pM ca®) a BARewse Yaseigs- ij lore ta. af gine : _ jidncasty = aoe Ol” ei { 17 ; bt i ' vo. oe ~ - 4 (8 nt rH f af ECL : Veer BOAO BS Dene : ig ts ; e ; i 4 Se i wal IY FS Vg" \ Dive ’ : an i eu 7 si | ' i, rr a ; i j 7 oe | if Ae , » Ve ‘ni be ‘ if ae fi , F is ! : n - ‘ae 70% His an x . me Hy zy) Nise a f : ’ >. Sr has ; rm, a th —4{ ; an I ao uP ’ | et e by 7 j oe ik F 7 i : > Hh ‘ ; ney a ra - ie Dies? a Diglossa barbytula Wagler Types No. 21,108. Collection - Munchen. Wing 55.0, tail 44.5, culmen 9.6, d, tarsus 16.7, middle toe minus claw 11.4, Petz. Locality-—Mexico. "Gestaldt aus dem Wurzburger Museum", No. 21,109. Collection - Munchen. Wing 55.0, tail 43.5, culmen --, d, tarsus 15.2, middle toe minus claw 10.0, Petz. 21,108 was this old no. of 21,108. Locality-Mexico. No. 21,110. Collection - Munchen. Wing 54.0, tail 45.0, culmen 9.8, 9, tarsus 16.5, middle toe minus claw --, Petz. Both d's have the chin and upper throat gray, on 21,108 the gray extends well down over the whole throat. These three cotypes examined by me at Munich on ‘Aug. 19, 1933. Remarks: All were originally "21,108". The present 21,108 (the first) is the only one having an original tag, which reads "Diglossa Barbitula, Wagl. (mas et fem.) Aus Mexico (Dr. Petz.) Ae Je Van Rossem rye 7 ne ‘, 4 _ ai \ at nm i é % oO "i i 7 i i wo. a: oP hk a ‘ > Lg vi} L4 Do i © i 6i\@ Meee any «\ Lie j i ° ed) sak iar aes —. ro OS tee aye pe ‘ ed : r a of é OG re ‘ r 7 ‘ye y ud — ae . ‘7 oof ff ts C S Wa & ” > hee Sa eT bie - ity - Cl bie 3 Oe ‘ tify ha ri ya fn ~ view y vee ee if a 4 ‘ . ag aes ey "| 7 bel, af ‘ elsotid 1 ce ' : : 1 4 ele, Soe he S12ZOIS ha snived. ©: Peet tadth aa Dromococcyx phasianellus (Spix) Macropus phasianellus Spix Type No number. Collection - Mimich. Wing 144, tail 200, exp. culmen 20, no sex, tarsus both broken, middle toe minus claw 18.0. Locality — "in sylvis fl. Tonaytins . c Three tags, the oldest reading "Diplopterus phasianellus Sp. Brasilie& Spix". The second - a white museum tag "in silvis fl. Totantius". Adult Spix Coll.", and the third a red type tag "Type von Macropus phasianellus Spix Ave Braz. I. pe 53 tab. 42". This bird is marked on the breast with very large spots which almost take up the whole of the individual feathers. Mounted bird in terrible condition - falling to pieces. Examined by me at Mimich on August 19, 1933. —————_———— Remarks: Brazillian specimens are paler dorsally and have the crest much paler and redder than Central American birds. Spec. ex. Brazil: 1 Munich, 2 _ Berlin, Cent. Am. Panama 2: Costa Rica 13 Puerto Cabello 1 - all Berlin. Ae Ale Van Ronee . bain a a) 5 E - ' fe i rr ‘ a + ~ - ~~ tr =, —" Pay - "» i Ma pide 2 5 I cans te Sh te ae oe pbs Fp 4 vu gabe pear ? = . ? rj) La 4 + an a V4 see mi! Sy oil pi iad Dothyel | 4 ‘Od. Waele iO notin FA Oi Ya mort xd aagetq.” ‘ ee yew : ss Wisi a% a | wy is a eae ie : ' 4 o 4 i &. 4 ying peoveman 7 het ats 2 bs hie, Ohww: bisa “tele oa utveto-eds ayes oe paodied S thaat axe «oe ot td) seo keh, | | rindtin hte edly: Ci Geom wood Lie =~ 1 otiedad - c & ro ro C ‘« aa V's gee vi c " AL Dryobates pubescens Cabanis & Heine Dryobates homorus Cabanis & Heine Type New No. 17,169 Old B Bes Collection - Geclen, Wing 93.0, tail 57.5, base & exp. culmen 18.7, 16.2, 6 ad., tarsus 15.8, middle toe minus claw ii. hs Date 1863. Locality Folsom, Califomia. Neue No. 17169 Alte No. B 5162. "g Folsom, F. Gruber, leg No. 1934" [evidently the copy of original label"]. Eingang Dec. 1863 ers in the museum at that date]. Gesammelt 1863 [Gruber in litt]. Red type tag in Stresemann's handwriting. Skin taken down from mount, but still retaining glass eyes and wires in legs. Lesser coverts totally black; two middle coverts with (concealed) white spots; 3 greater coverts with(partly concealed)white spots. Dorsal stripe with creamy tinge; 3 outer pairs of lateral rectrices barred. Plumage very slightly abraded as though taken in midwinter or very early spring. Underparts with a very slight smokey tinge. In other words this is the Willow Woodpecker - a typical specimen in all particulars J3 Examined at Berlin on August 28, 1933- (Frnnr ) a x ~— —— é : : a 7 " ii i Ny i‘ ‘ | i oe “ ‘ y? a1”) ae F i 1) pres dn pw G , toy ‘has oh Pe oe eee . * - sar . - - 1% os P<. eb : Lin poset, FP tore ree. te are : *R y' he TOUR 40 ee ae! tue 29'S. ki htitars ‘ eEtes Neeson hea i BoE AELS “anzigh’ * - wee io oy oo OL bk ail abo te ae © ‘ ae ey a Loe 3, LTE amet Ae 5 Ws now ae " aN. 40 kz: | oH nd’ hae Oe ies ‘pebaida be = eo wepenel ty nesezus digo Phan ed ee | Ae Je Van Rossem . Dryobates scalaris scalaris (Wagler) Picus scalaris Wagler Type No. 10472. Collection - Berlin. Wing 96.5, tail 50.0, exp. culmen 19.1 [d ad.J, tarsus 17.5, Middle toe minus claw13.1, Deppe. Locality Xalapa. Picus scalaris Wagl.* fo} Typ. Also a red type tag. Xalapa 10472 V. Sack. Deppe Skin taken down from mount, in good condition. Plumage slightly abraded as though taken in spring. Examined Aug. 29, 1933. It is typical of the central Vera Cruz race. Ae J. Van Rossem ? hi iY { oe 4 rr Lom Oths SMA i ia 4 Aaa PD “ - ee, Ms SWB a r nm Ps! > LA ae i ae hi eh hse a : ” J oe, . et CXPc WTSY LADD e } 2 14 vo UJ , io ? 1 i 7 re ce ' Pp fe? i o ¥ pice’, “ae 4 i i ely An 1 | ory 7 oar wo - rr j : ") : a ca ha Dryobates villosus hyloscopus Cab. & Heine Dryobates hyloscopus Cab. & Heine Type No. 17,575. Collection - Berlin. Wing 120.0, tail 76.0, base & exp. culmen 34.3, 30.2, [d], tarsus 20.4, middle toe minus claw15.2, L. C. Schmidt. Locality - San Jose, Kalifornien. Picus harrisi at “ furitten in) Eingang Jui 1863 mas. Aud. 1839 S. José L.C. Schmidt Gruber crossed out and Li. Cs. sehmidt Kalifornien 17575 Gruber S. written in above. No. 5 tae. Stresemann has written the accmmpanying red type tag and also the "corrections" on the original label which is pasted on the stand. On the bottom of the stand is an older No. "B.4866" and @ivgoa below it ig Stresemann's handwriting. Mounted bird in fair condition, plumage slightly abraded. It is a very white bird with the dorsal stripe white and little or no smok¢y tinge on the underparts. Wing coverts unspotted save for streaks on two or three piede id coverts. It is an adult male. val Examined by me on August 27, 1933. Ae J.-Van Rossem \ er ie My | Tie baa as A : * : i) % : mae Tie ; Cu is i Hl ; wl t ’ y i i] th , ate ee fiche, TSN ye 1 ret aon Fi Ey F Shy P ww Vand . o B ite b % Pe é) F / » fa f ah ke ee ' ’ cn ¢ I eh = toh ees eat ; att - Pee a ' oe ae, i : As \ ff , : J ; ; at Pal ji | ; r2t9e ot Gein Beg pad o- - an 1) “it ae badved 6E Teie a _« 7 le wid Ye modted., — sth ah ‘ ; oe reese Vee. a, , haere ee r mr sir aati - : en y ane ate an) are rhe ae / ‘ Ty ie 4 nan é vo fe avrg mf ? _ r eet i t, O8 ¥ he el i 22 OB ee n he i A rs chy fp4 die ; yy eeevao Reh 45 tineree bash, = u oe F 7) be © / Sy 5 iss STO apa Oh 51a: vi one oO 4 5 Foal Electron carinatus carinatus (Du Bus) Prionites carinatus Du Bus =-: ... QYPE 2651. Brussels. Wing 116, tail 174, culmen from nostril 33.5, depth at nostril 9.3, tarsus 17.8, middle toe minus claw 13.8, width at nostril 15.2. Prionirhynchus carinatus Du Bus Type de l'espéce Hab. Amerique centr. Loc. Guatemala 4651 written by Dubois - rest printed. Dubois catalogue gives 2651 type - Guatemala (ad C. Dubois) Mounted bird in good condition; plumage showing some wear, particularly on central restrices; most of frontal feathers between nostrils & forehead now miss- ing, - the few remaining ones are the color of the throate Coloration of underpart strongly orange on throat - changing to olive green posteriorly. I should call the upper parts dull dark green with a slight bluish cast — rather than "olive-green"; wings & tail distinctly more bluish than back. . Brussels July 12, 1939. Pictured plate 31 in ex. orn. No text. Ae J. Van Rossem Empidonax affinis affinis (Swainson) Tyrannula affinis Swainson Type Empidonax-bairdi Sclater .Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 65.0, tail 57.0, base & exp. culmen 15.0, 11.8, nostrils width 4.0, no sex, tarsus 15.5, middle toe minus claw 9.1. [Bullock] [2 probably]. Locality - Mexico. -Old tag Tyrannula affinis SW Mexico Cambridge Mus. Tag with no further data Swainson Collection. Skin in terrible condition - no stuffing in body - certainly a Bullockgfsx , Examined Sept. 21, 1933. #% Temascaltepec ~e prob. typefse, This is clearly and without question the race of southeasterm Mexico which at present known as fulvipectus Lawrence. It is an exact match for a specimen from Real del Monte, Hidalgo and of others from the Valley of Mexico and Coffre de Perote, Vera Cruz and La Parada, Oaxaca. No. 58.9.27.15. Collection - B.M. Wing 74.0, tail 61.0, base & exp. culmen 11.8, width nost. 4.0, tarsus 15.7, middle toe minus claw 9.5. Boucard. Oct. 1857, Locality - La Parada, Oaxaca. Original Salle tag @ Parada 42 Empidonax LO: bre: po7 a. bairdi Sclater Over an Baht gen kaw 4 wi (PE CCAS EE he ae oe coe ha) ae ee ee canted, sean es Vota oa irtin = peers tiog aarreai oh | 7 G.Es meetin cae at onad ,0. 0% Dias ii i * 2 ot igetet . x36) a , ae TE Sided, 432) iL “C} -Tisolicgy ~ca wails asmilm' ood — pels = “ GtLLaORS pS aster 7 amd ‘aloe ? P f f ‘ bat, ear pote AF Dw may PRT Tyee > 7 a ; * . } mAb ae | ’ goes Pita tates eka le, pe, Wehr ego sige * a @¢ HEM: Sih STS Mig Ty Beers: 2b fuicn Cale! (eee cgoonione Mle ean” aid ee nc ApS sa eae iseh ee groonnal 9 a Sty ii. th 2 Ost uy tam Shh MATS iit: akoogn S nee : pees (Gy oaixe) te ye ooh elt meek aT si - | . hare) AoeIet wa yes mea) ate: > NN aa enamel mene TAS edt 6 wt 4‘ , Coa Nett Wall” abate A 7 We ai? aa WS ) ay iy. ——= 2 any it Bs Dwi a ey ee mew hase Lets . a a i, So i e - B ~~ = = 37 OUR le ay > * wa «66 NiO S ah sigh: (tot “ + mons auity —— 4) aes) Geos a nile b ¥ ; * 7 ~ «pt i % 3 ; 4: ve %* wT Lert. : Pi ipia y & v" Od iv nai: cy ee ae a si oy 16 ateg lage: & yhled mae ‘aha Ee - oe ows hertosonta : chiar .ease, beaknaage 4 a re, td ee etl ti ll il ll i Empidonax traillii traillii (Audubon) ridgwayi foos=seP Sclater ‘Type Empidonax No. 88.1.13.944. Collection - B.M. Wing 70.0, tail 57.5, exp. culmen 11.8, tarsus 16.0, middle toe minus claw —, Stevens, date 1855, Locality - Bogota. Empidonax ridgwayi 1408 of Cat. 1855 Spe nov. Type Bogota Stevens §8.1.13-944. also a Smithsonian tag reading "This is probably a new species. It is most like traillii in coloration but has outer webs of exterior rectrices white, as in obscurus. Se This is the eastern race of traillii.flot sexed - evidently a male. So grease stained and dirty that most of the color characters are lost — how- ever the wing bars are whitish, not buffy, and the bill is small. The outer web is by no means pure white. I can nearly or quite match it with several eastern specimens of traillii. Exam. London - Sept. 14, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem , ° ws ‘ 4 ahs tal € Se ey may a | } . ns ti "4 mut OS 2 7 , Novel - ee | ee + ‘ Se) a) ef oy ee ti ~ } 4 ithe! : — ws i . ny ue ay. , v4 sk ata) LL. Me) Peer Are Psat! PALE GS NE 9 1 ' resroase meésian ‘. oi tA a Bn Wnts 4 ee . "7 t j | j Euphagus cyanocephalus cyanocephalus (Wagler) Psarocalius cyanocephalus Wagler Type Number 7372. Collection - Berlin. Wing 131, tail 100.5, base exp. culmen 23.3, 21.2, depth 10.0, tarsus 33.0, middle toe minus claw 28.0. Deppe. Locality - "Temascaltepec",. Mounted bird in fair condition. An adult male in slightly abraded plumage and showing moult on the head and neck? therefore, evidently collected in the spring. Only the head and neck show violet or blue reflection the rest of the body being definitely greenish. Old number 113. Green label pasted on stand. Gi @_aeneus N [crossed out & cyanocephalus Wagler written in] Mas Scoleophagus mexicanus Sw Temascaltepek. Gr. von Sock. Deppe. _ Examined by me at Berlin August 24, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem mi ft tes oe Rumi) Sh in AA ; ba mae beets ir ome cil as Ded 5 a 7 i a. ee at he ee a v4 ty ny fy ah a P 1A 2 ae oy y VoL - » Wieser wild » , 6 } J AJ j i. " fio ‘ = 140 J > ¢ » r 7 ; ; ae i> 5 i ’ <4) ) i ‘ ‘ zn a i a? b ott - . &, : d t i art if \ a Phy ’ @ vi bite 5 } a * t it ‘ p : . " A 5 7 Ree 40, , P ' 7 . e + 7 n i. Ny ap i ; van ; a > Go 1. 4 mt Euthlypis leachrymosa lJachrymosa Cabanis Euthlypis lg@chrymosa Cabanis Type No. 4385. Collection - Berlin. Wing 70.5, tail ' 67.5, culmen 12.0, depth at nostrils 4.3, tarsus 23.4, middle toe minus claw 13.3. Deppe. Locality - Legunas, [Oaxaca]. S. lachrymosa N. Mas Lagunas 4385 Deppe Mounted bird in good condition, plumage only slightly abraded. A female by measurement - dorsal plumage strongly olivaceous. Examined by me August 26, 1933. Ae de Yan Rossem ni a a a i ll ll i a a a i I i Geococcyx velox Cuculus velox A. Wagner Type No number. Collection - Miinchen. Wing 138, tail 275, culmen tip gone - broken, no sex, tarsus 50.0, middle toe minus claw 29.0. Karwinski. Locality - Mexico. This is a dark colored bird, the extreme of the Central American type. Indeed the streaks on the chest and neck are so black and broad, and the feathers of the head and neck are so dark that should all (so) Mexican birds prove the same it might be necessary to recognise three races. Skin in fair condition, possibly never mounted. Plumage abraded and tail in moult. Another feature is that the tail is uniform slate — black on the under surface. The terminal white spots measure (from the outside pair first) 30-15 and 6 m. respt. center pair (of course not tipped, 3rd (6 mm tip) pair are new. ‘Type examined by me at Minich on August 19, 19336 Ae Je Van Rossem ula ' wry at by Orreays' tue * tp at ; we a de pe Lew 5 bods tae | Del mth PGS, F dyed (MN, ary iM ; eh Sy, 2a . od! mest) jy amy ‘Og SOUMAD ees sh 1598). (OLS am a) g0 tein coos yt benSmane eqyito! 6 eT Lagat ad , : & ,* a OP on ee i je ys sil f ht AP eae rie el iv? he rh oul elas ratte ey en c Yee ea os) eres G gots Ad fe were 82.9 4 De rie v's or oY : Lad «bien rere trim "i Sy As 7 ; aria j , wWiaD & Ga ‘2 NT Se on ne | 2 “onl rom Le réx60 ees iu bags wee Jontd ce via Voesubau. te nye Mevigds wir sovty bod incarl ele Sol ees a oae ssieey toa) Lis ¥ ot 2 i @2.58 90089 Gl basen Geranospiza gracilis (Temminck) Falco gracilis Temminck TYPE Fi. Col, 16 Tie Lot. Die JL. No number. Leiden. Wing 310, tail 242, culmen from cere 13.5, tarsus 93.0, middle toe minus claw 36.5. (Tail bands commencing with tip. Black bars are underlined. ) Center pair 5~42-23-46-25-34-54 to base. Next pair 5-34-23-36-43-14-to base Mounted bird in good condition, yellow eyes. In details of tail markings the specimen and plate agree save that the somewhat broken proximal black band has not been indicated. Coloration of light areas of tail much too dark, - actually they are light creamy buff. The distal light band is gray on outer webs when viewed dorsally. Central pair barred differently from others. Basal and second light band are white, the distal one gray on both webs from abo Ve. White barring below narrow (1-1-L.2 mm.) and about 1/3- 1/4 the width of the intervening dark spaces. Herpetotheres hemidactilus [!] Temn. See also Schlegel, li.P.B. 2 typ. pl. col. 91, iieeAstures, 1862, p. 34. Cot. No. 3 Brasilia Examined at Leiden July 8, 1939. Probably collected by Wied, although Temminck!'s text does not explicitly so state. A. Je Van Rossem iyi Phi Penn i a i] HN) ae) ‘Gants: wet) as 2 a PG ihe ROL, wwe BE Be as a Tale in Lega yaie 65) rete _papdingies, ou mcs Sarit. War WEEE) Loetid ,@ snl eteg= Miee atthe ke PaiWiboeet wooed OP eit?! aa os: ‘( begitistine’ sag: VEEN OF fer din lied b= tioiied See. SaTieD te Att If po tee Ye a “doo? Pe (Aberte mite, noltioinw iooq ab bed bade Ute brs, xyetocds s43 azausvan Stat Jo actaden PASM nas, Tod Savas ey taht ree Sikieak. TAP ul satoto. calle ea hon matt a on vA my Pee plied hee satel ot) SEs | had Pers pel : wat he #60") ; eT Tis) 2) ly iterik Silaw EL Girtene mis Lace! .¢ Thanerto TL Bees edéy tied Go) Gary bw sects as ,ochdw ole a | gids 6 Feeds Gah (nt) Gein tal) cian voled gated will Seeseees Foap afcnaryecet acl fo rane eae ai Wiis \) eilivgelctrier seréeags suqrteil : gant fs Sie d y a 5 of : Lease ing” Cota. Abe, | . ; or od, oT gp ROQ, ars ceo fe oe MECE .& Clul aebled ge benim rea ut ym iv vo ae -POln 16 GOT ralloo See Other Ge Lito hiyxe gon Sead Sted) | Waees meV ou a mt " ye a? a % a ay Ay, ’ - a gs ” ; aia Geranospiza niger niger (DuBus) Ischnosceles niger DuBus TYPE Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belg., 1847, 14, pt. 2 (séance de. Ainets) pen 102. 4437 Brussels. Wing 331, tail 252, culmen from cere 20.0, base at cere 13.1, tarsus 91.0, middle toe minus claw 38.7. A fully adult bird (mounted); sex not indicated but without doubt a female; red eyes; plumage fresh. Abdominal region, thighs, and under tail coverts very narrowly tipped with white; larger under tail coverts tipped with wnite for 5-S mm.$ chin and larval region pale gray; edge of wing with narrow ( 1 mn.) light barring. Otherwise entire body plumage dark slate color - blackish plumbeous - paler enteriorly and on crown. Tail banded on central rectrices as follows (dorsally) commencing with tips: 5 mm. gray; 47 m. black; 33mm. gray; 72 mm. black; 25 mm. white; thence mixed black & white to base secondaries & wing plumage color of body; primaries slaty black; dark areas in tail black with slaty tinge. There is no locality other than "Mexique". The bird was acquired from Verheyen, but otherwise there are no data. There is the further notation that this part of the register was listed by Dubois (in 1897) as the type. Prepared with DuBus. Brussels, July 14, 1939. DuBus (Esquir. Orn., liv. 4, 1848, pl. 16) makes it clear that the bird figured is the type and only specimen known to him. Details of tail match exactly - specimen plate. There is no further clue as to locality. July 2), 1939. It is not likely that fade is responsible for the relatively gray color for it was originally described as "cinerasceuti-niger". Ae Je Van Rossem ST lc eh P, n —_——an | ; yy : ah i ae . : nrg ait ea cine opt Gu. 7 } as eee “he a aay 9 7 PU: gate) ’ 7 - ide ee | pire OS LOT Tee Spy Lan / C4 ' ' i ty it 7 i. "i ‘hegyag = . 4 # ig : gift ws cme Ge ! aye : gatte . ARTA . + To Pe ee a } 4 wer Ti i bbs oa - 1 ead» be i hs Ss "Abe aida a i ie a ae Me Ray ara ote tts = IY PRED 02 CARAS A iy : mY : oc vlisqs hos Fan a iV. & balla {ne ,. ie ii7ot Sala Des ee ars en 1 he 19 Yoo In elo ; ew Wes tel Lila but ; LOL at eb ewig Saks oe le bray oot? beeione | hn nite. Oe a ey “sil a) yi i Sa OAL) Ga SRE eAS he ; td De peasy ee oa ba has teunas) enn, PYG Yate yin carpi Bald: she dads } om ine —- GEES OE athe ee: CG ' A eRe Naan ae & d Cais) Ge be aniegis «oral BOC FY 28%, bi ins Mm mh 5 top de ax Jd - WRERE. es A ROY 4 Ly Plas, yiles way cha tang eid te Pee do eke on one e sae ae a e " cn re iat 7 cg oul Sw he a ; aie Me iy eer, wis RC ial sia " ; i erie lacunae — SUNT od Glaucidium minutissimum cobanense Sharpe Glaucidium cobanense Sharpe (Type) No. 75.6.14.45;5 Collection = B. M. Wing S/7 sO) ware 59.0, culmen 10.1, tail bands 6+tip, tarsus 18.0 middle toe minus claw -—-, no sex, Bouvier, Locality- Coban, 4000 ft., Vera Paz (Type). No. Shel e2ben (os Collection = BoM, Wing 87.0, Gani 59-0, culmen 10.2, tail bands 6+tip, tarsus --, mo sex, Dec. 1861. Coban, Vera Paz. No. 87.7.20.170. Collection - B.M., Wing 88.0, tail 62.0, culmen 10.4, tail bands 6+tip, tarsus --, no sex, 0. Salv. Sept. 7-'59, Volc. de Fuego. No. 88.7.20.179 Wing 91.0, tail 60.0, culmen 9.6, tail bands 7+ip, "9" Feb. 1862, Coban. No. 88.7.20.173 Wing 96.0, tail 67.0, ewlmen 11.0, tail bands 6#ip, [9 Salvin, 1862. Duenas. Remarks: The type is the darkest individual of the - five but is closely matched by the Duenas bird. All are in extreme rufous phase, the only phase known for this races: Ae Je Van Rossem — 7 ao oie Glaucidium minutissimum griseiceps Glaucidium griseiceps Sharpe Type ae a AP eee aa ale eae eee oO : EA Ss) mee) D2 12.16 Beis | 90.0) 52.50 9.8] 4+tip| no se ovOnliador i Y= WNeO.Ol ASO): LO. steer a\c tee on WGae. 226 I: " 86.0} 48.0} 11.1) 34+" " " J A SS tt 86.0 58.0 10.3 6+" " " steel dau fea latte) " GA.O| 55.0) LOO Sia" W a Ome lon 10070) “6O.0}- 10.81. 6." " " SGe (eco; |" SON aie Ol abee|, ora! " " Ses POS. AM SO Ol LOSOl eau " " ui os) 1 86.0 51.0 9.6 54" " " = Sey a 85.0) 51.0] 10.2} 4 +" tt " i" eee We D9) 1 86.0 Bile) Oso tn " " tt Ltt tits AeA 1! 85.0 49.0 TORS 4 Hil " " " 90.5.16.80 " 88.0 54.0 11.0 4+" ngn " caneauy * Subsp. char seem to be short tail as compared with cabanense. a winter wanderer of cobanense. "Over" — ~~ -- Sharpe Jan.1861 1861 F.Blan-' Jan.1-'88 Southern Pine Ridge This bird is probably "Guatemala" Type Guatemala Chisec 600 ft. Brit. H. West Dist. coed. - a ode 1 om ” ot y SUE te eis ery! ites ee 7 wessoy ueAtr *Y¥ a “ayeTosqo ATYUeNberz SuTyyods yoeg *yoeq ayy ueYyy Jofeud ‘eqadnazge pue ATpeptoep ume ttd oaey (pitq pow eTsuts qdooxa) [Te 3» speey pezjods ATyusuTwoud eaey [Ly ‘aseyd (pesy Aeris 3 yoeq UmOIq- eT) UMOIq UT edAL ssyseUeY Granatellus sallaei sallaei (Bonaparte) tesco _Setophaga sallaei Bonaparte Type Number *9254 [1856-881]. Collection Paris Mus. Wing 60, tail 57, culmen 10.8, 6, tarsus 18.0, middle toe minus claw 11.0, Sallé, Apr., 1855, Locality - Mexique, Cordova. Number - New 9255, old 1862-461. Collection Paris Mus./, Wing 57.0, tail 55.0, culmen 10.5, 9, tarsus 18.4, middle toe minus claw 11.2, Sallé, Apr. 1859, Locality Mexique. *Mounted bird in fair condition, marked on bottom of stand as follows: "Mexique, Cordova, M. Sallé, 9254 [new cat. No.] 1856-881 [old no.] Granatellus Sallaei Sch. ‘Cubpe slype de Pr. Ch. Bp." ahoo x Another bird, a female, is)ticketed as a "type" éZay, but there is no such mark on the stand, which is moreover catalogued as 1862-461 - four years after the species was described! and was not purchased from Salle until that year. It was not collected until after the species was described. The above birds ex. by me at Paris, Aug. 3, 1933. A. J. Van Rossem ae . Doe ae arc) Pe ae ai ye ed. y aber | e : a : std 2 wee ~~ — Arched nian — U hen b> (ia Pe ey ae ee as BP Arin Lares ett sabe - Par wines CL OBES ’ a) ri i: a rite db yok 4 ae. 3 oy i ei ane Peres Jot hee uv Lanner ~ % Lahey | Dieter nites h * =i ? ny A Avew ESOS ener od ing ey Sahin ied ! ’ oo A Lt " Nm A i & Biv. SA om, DapuAN P eh 44) re Ar es es ie a ee 9 a eer ie i S26 hg >. Coren Wald aie 17 . tin Aod eLno im pte wat oe at ; Tee sf entra rewoliol bn/ heave % 7 ~ 9% J oe a WP st aot : Vidas ad 4 alates OP he £ a a? ? Nae i, ° og te al a oe ine] odi; FORA 7 oy tue (BA 7, SsevpOLaded “i ner Gea ez ae obama BAF :, » der Gisoy alin aor | ee wig’ ines SLtenr Lad) ae ote: Ot eee , “my ad atAS Xo i ag av; a aioe’ iy - mis : \ on bk ret eS ee ee NE tc eee een See Te -— Granatellus venustus melanotis Van Rossem TYPE 9264220.1589. British liuseum, Wing 62, tail 70, exp. culmen 12.3, depth at base 4.9, tarsus 19.5, middle toe minus claw 11.5, width at nostril 4.5. May di 1889, San Blas, Tepic, Richardson [= Nayarit] Mexico. Skin in excellent condition, well prepared and well shaped. An adult male by plumage [marked as d] and, in spite of the relatively late date, showing but little abrasion. Tail with much more of white on all rectrices than venustus, 3rd pair from outside with a well developed white terminal area 12 mm, long along shaft on inner web and 16 mm. on outer. 4th pair with narrow (2 mm.) terminal white tips on both webs. Sides of face uniform black (note plumbeous or blackish plumbeous as in venusta) - this confluent with the black pectoral band. Underparts more vermillion (less rosy) red than venustus and distinctly brighter. Upper parts slightly paler and bluer gray. 1588. B.M. Similar to above, but with even more white on 3rd and Ath pair of rectrices. Wing 61, tail 68, exp. culmen 12.5, depth at base 4.8, tarsus 19.5, middle toe minus claw 10.4, width at nostril 4.2. 5/4/89 San Blas. Richardson, british Museum, August 17, 1939. 98.12.1.827 B.li. Comitan, Chiapas, Richardson, April 20, 1897 6 ad. is venustus so far as tail markings, wing length, slightly darker dorsal coloration, and more rosy (less vermillion) underparts are concerned. It is a flat remnané of a skin-almost destroyed by (apparently, heavy shot at close range and most of the head and hindneck are missing. Due to distortion, etc. ; wat. fp AR re Nag A peed, bi uy a ook wrnat ie ve mW - ; eee . : Peps ore) td fe ul = : > Lane ear I cannot be sure, but this may represent another race, the characters of which are chin and upper throat (only) white, lower throat black iike pectoral band which (together) are 12 mn. wide instead of 3-5 as in venustus and melanotis. Crown, sides of head and sides of neck shot away as no comparison of these parts possible. Characters of melanotis are black auriculars confluent with pectoral pand (instead of’ plumbeous) sides paler- underpart more vermillion (less rosy). ‘See measurement sheet for BoC. & U.S.NeM. specimen. Ae J-Van Rossem Nae sdb wie, jon She oud 4 ee GaGa ec er hie) 'TS %? ae IS IIe < « 1) etotoenedo ont ae Liicct, wa Sh ens Sacre sone ,oodtiw (wile) Reese, 40 Kent Ghje ota: $ aap ie lktoBoy, ro tctw i hes mea 200 Pa Se er |b? Salt Oi gute rey ek Meri 22 hp Oe vn cows cone deog To: eebte’ a | | mre: rh Mee ie hal i) Ya sta qsygorlee to exo soaiadd> meese eu nelle ts Weslatl. Mase Laiweeyoehow, Mebee ots WY yROt weet) i) Loiueey exon Hisq rent a. sO CARD. oats: U 2 eve SOL deeda Svenor WY iil ey 1 i s vn 1 Hi @ 4 ‘7 = ; e 5 7 1 . a, , as 7 i \ Hylocichla guttata guttata (Pallas) Muscicapa guttata Pallas. Type No. 3438 Collection - Berlin. Wing 90.0, tail 67.0, culmén 13.6 No sex - juvenile, tarsus 18.3, middle toe minus claw15.9. Billings. Locality - Alasehka Kadiak. Turdus aonalaschkae Gm. 1788 Muscicapapa guttata Pall.* 1811 juv. Pallas Alasehka 3438 Wildenow S. Written by Stresemann->Kadiak. Billings legewritten by Stresemann. Two type tags attached - one Muscicapa guttata Pallas and the other Turdus pallasi Cab. This is the original Pallas type, and I suppose that because suttata was the first re- ference given by Cabanis it might be considered the type of pallasi also. Mounted bird in pure juvenal plumage, with wing and tail feathers evidently fully grown out. Plumage definitely reddened by age of course. Examined at Berlin September 2, 1933. Ae Js Van Rossen ar t F ] we | ‘ . % we - " a : 2 -~ 4 ° rr & gC Cia a bad a 1 4 =) an | e-' Pen _ i : Chl vac mn ml nyt , ~ ; ; ; n : m Icteria vireys auricollis Lichtenstein Tanagra auricollis Lichtenstein Types Number 5880. Collection - Berlin. Wing 79.0, tail 81.0, culmen 14.3, "mas", tarsus 24.5, middle toe minus claw, 16.0, Deppe. Locality - Mexico [ie-city of]. wh © Number 5881. Collection - Berlin. Wing 80.0, tail 8425, culmen 14.2 "fem", tarsus 26.8, middle toe minus claw 16.1. Deppe. Locality-—Mexico. Number 5882. Collection - Berlin. Wing 81.0, tail 88.0, culmen 15.1, "mas", tarsus 25.1, middle toe minus claw 16.1. Deppe. Locality - Mexico. Mounted birds in fair condition, plumages abraded as if taken in midsummer or early summer. They are all typical examples of "longicauda"” ! No. 5182 has been selected as the type by Stresemann and has the red type label of the museum attached but all three are, of course, cotypes. | No. 5882 readS- T. auricollis N Mas. Mexico 5882 .Graf. v. Sock Deppe. Types examined by me on August 26, 1933. Ae JeVan Rossem - = Hae PEs) , ; eh, a Ca VA , ba ae ; ie d »T ae | * ‘ a 7 i ~ 7 ” fi en el id J 1? Telia a 4 . evs heal i i of isa’ * Pie ‘4 4 © 4a acs arr ee : é te mn His ' ie art y i : a ae il thy Fae} tld tat a ee) nat wrk Sel woe ns spetias iL, RE Dek Maret | fetes: i, ba3 ' “i era ek OS: gy: SHE DLP Ar ea reac "i ri , a + RAS i. | Jf —ahaet SB8C/ 68 — he : x 1 Ne OGM. mm at > ie “Eee 7 : Ne eee ‘ D lan a la BI Le i Icterus auratus Bonaparte Ict[erus] auratus "DuBus" Bonaparte TYPE No. 7107. Brussels. Wing 94.5, tail 87.5, culmen base 19.6, depth at base 10.8, tarsus 24.0, middle toe minus claw 15.9. Ghiesbrecht - in 1838 or 1839. Yucatan. Mounted bird in very good condition; orange eyes; an adult, probably a male; plumage warm as though collected in summer. Dubois has a note written in his register as regards this specimen -"a translation"-"Remarks: Bonaparte has based his description after the individual at Brussels, and also indicated 1rucatan as the locality of its origin. This individual at the Museum accords entirely with his description and is the only one which came from the locality mentioned." It appears certain that No. 7107 is the type of the species. This species certainly has no very close relationship with cucoulatus. Note very stout, straight bill of typee Ridgway gives depth as al 8.6 mn. A. Je Van Rossem . i = 5 ASHE (ears tor , aged Lay Sie ah pas od none a rahe j } : 7 ein’ oy : “4 ayes. OF * woe trl _ » reat Oot, BALD Le 4s i’ F ty a7 fe, G. cs ;~ f } -., ey ~s eeetrtcc, Ga Bet ar : ? “oer yee Ek “A eS x 4 > ie Ve oh, = 4 bom g wen B2O0tN & , bs) > : ‘ hale if i rit t ; os ad t " : p . 7 . 7 weve et ga €A0 t i i te oe a are mee } i? ~ We SAS - . f i z ihe IPSs , 4 esd Bs se . ‘ee i Desyh.t ten * ys ae ' . Qn A aan / a ea7 J0 oi Ui 6h Py i iy Bp ) seksoqe 2 ae) 5 wm IN : a3 ep f 5 - 4 ; emi A ‘ i ee) aa '¢ ‘ y ¢ « : \ ’ | OD 1 Naa i ‘. \ a r 7 ‘ y i ” Pare Icterus bullockii abeillei (Lesson) Psarocelius coztatatl Wagler Type Number 7511. Collection ~- Berlin. Wing 100.0, Tail 80.0, base & exp. culmen 20.7, 18.3, 14. De tarsus 23. fs middle toe minus claw nS or Deppe Locality [ wre of] Ugo, Mounted bird in good condition. Plumage abraded as though taken in midsummer. Not fully adult male with intermixture of olive in plumage of upperpart and flanks. Xanthornus abeillei Lesson 1839 Mesaiko ‘7512 ‘Gr. v. Sock: Deppe S. Type examined at Berlin, bai 24, 1923. Ae J. Van Rossem hil h Brera he Ba ey. cee cy 4 ‘ ) : a, of if 7 i i) iy 7 f *"\ as » Pode ke, te uw Jeo. © thie Eee 9 sles pd Leng aa to: oh, hd va | wee ay - “ ¢ 4 : ~ ‘s ej - = @ Pia ie - 4 Ph a 7 qi" be t2 J i bb 7 ie ae i a yess AG SNA . ‘ a SS Miseaear te — = ae : oro ° 7 alee es ASrenine eon re a aa AER Xa) G ter = 1. Vie Nae ron iy ae j ‘ payee i} +) i j Wiel. 4 ; ~ ee : * hrit : te At = 2 as 4 i J Thi a r iy a i ’ : i t 4 i : A ai ara als by ee 5 7 ; ve), yl eos he pd Puen a i \ f, fed iv ay erstad Bet +, eet | faible ine ae psteTOe. = niin Fue W Wy i hid ) eso er ee bit certs = aii. at el sat? rey af eons au 2 Sane. “Oe Lee 2 Crt Ss aa es Bue TAs: a Y\ oS dhe ae te) 4 rei i vie Pie mT * 4 Diaiih vl - v = & ; rr! ~~ % fh — ii mye a PY ta Pea nee a bE pel “ai ghanen Wi: othe nara et FEE neces Hyaond ia" she Sak ER) cy St bref “ari il ag he bad ha 6 =| AS: =, te > ¥ rr = A Aan 12 Ww Mi nee 4 _ $ a ne out ab) (Gey: aeatt. ww “wip aye od co oer «seu ee hd asso.) ate i oe Icterus nigrogularis nigrogularis (Hahn) Xanthornus nigrogularis Hahn Type (VSgel aus Asien, Africa, etc. 5 Lief. 1819, Tati. lk )s Number A. 998. Collection - Munchen. Wing 94.0, tail 87.0, exp. culmen 20.9, base 22.7, depth 12.0, tarsus 26.8, middle toe minus claw 18.5, [size of 6d] Locality — Brasilien". kin taken down from. mount, in fair condition and but slightly abraded plumage. A slight greenish shade to yellow of upperpart. Greater coverts tipped 3-1/2 mm. with white; outer webs of secondaries (for 27mm) and tertials edged with white; small obscure black central spots on upper back. Three tags - old green "Icterus xanthornus Gm. Brazilien". New white museum tag with No. A 998 "Brazil" [erroreJ] and red type tag in Hellmayr's handwriting.Lesser & middle coverts black at base. Examined by me at Minich Aug. 21, 1933. No visible white patch at base of primaries - ie - it is covered by the primary coverts. Avid. Van nossem i i Eb apr ge Sn oh 4S ae ea i an Me et Icterus pectoralis pectoralis (Wagler) Psarocolius pectoralis Wagler Type Number 7553. Collection - Berlin. Wing 111.0, tail 104.0, base & exp. culmen 24.4, 22.2, depth 11.3, tarsus 28.2, middle toe minus claw 19.9. Deppe dad. Locality - Totalapa. Mounted bird in fair condition, though most of tail missing. Plumage slightly abraded. Only a slight orange tint to yellow,portions of plumage. Label on stand reads Psarocolius pectoralis Wagler 1829 .. mas Totalapa DDS Gre. Ve DOCK Deppe S. Plus, as always, Stresemann's red type tag. Ex. by me at Berlin August 24, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem nes ie : 4 o : ey I 4 ee his eae . PC ie uf ; mi ig o a! gilint 7 ot Lengo Aol : ote my Ba Sr eae. «cue bie pane | ont tae i: a, Wad Bibeln as auetiet ie. Lh efsepel ht ‘ak = rane obR OF cle “h Ch waa : as ark otk este ; iaibte amy at’ goivets ba: er | meres ace ee Rien) Y aay a a0. east | agate Set os | bee ¥ caw We 8 wkd ve shops : a. i a hy Jacana Parre melanopygia Sclater TYPE 7986. Brussels. Wing 120, tail 45, culmen 25.1, tarsus 50.7, middle toe minus claw 50.4, "Qu Ste Martbe, Colombia. Mounted bird in good condition; fully adult and marked (undoubtedly correctly) as "9", Lappet on forehead bi-lobed the smaller lateral ones distorted. 3) This specimen was acquired from Verreaux as the type of Selaters species. The Verreaux green label is pasted to the register. Parra melanopygia Sclater Proce. Zool. Soc. (type de Sclater) aad Ste. Martbe. NLL© Grenade. 2 I do not know when this specimen was obtained from Verreaux. There is no record here of the date. Brussels, July 19, 1938. Ae JeVan Rossem ey ae aoa Ae tv bathe ‘pains te is atta _ Te a. iat aye vs y Mt ise airs ? Jacana spinosa gymnostoma (Wagler) Parra gymmostoma Wagler Type No number. Collection - Munchen. Wing 129, tail 38.5, culmen from cere 28.7, tarsus 59.5, middle toe minus claw 57.1, Keerl. [ juvenal @ by size] Locality - Mexico. Skin in poor condition taken down from mount. Juvenile, with first brown feathers of the post juv. moult appearing on the back. 4 tags - old green one "Parra gymostoma. Wagl. Mexico, Keerl Newer green mus. tag "Asarcia variabilis (Lim) juv. Mexico. Keerl leg. J! ; new white one blank and the red type tag in Hellmayr's writing. Type examined by me August 21, 1933. A J. Van Rossem Lie: Teo leg A oe ¢ 1 aa aie hie ; if _ : : 7 3 val wer mo eed mn - ¥ i) eo : ‘ i. oe | aie ae &. TTS. nt wD (8 Pet BG [ a Junco alticola Salvin Junco alticola Salvin Type No. 1885.12.14.984. Collection - B.M. Wing 77.5, tail 72.0, exp. culmen 14.0, open, tarsus 23.6, middle toe minus claw 16.1, Nov. 1861. Locality- Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Three tags - oldest (probably original) Junco alticola [on the reverse] Pine forest Volcan de Fuego iris white November 1861 763 88 next is the S. & G. mseum tag. Nov. dJunco alticola Salvin on reverse 1861 Pine fordst Volcan de Fuego Guatem. 85.12.14.984 Figd. B.C.A. (Os oalvan 703. Red Brit. Mus. Type tag with citation of description & also the data (for the most part) from the other two. Skin in good condition, plumage almost totally unabraded. No sex marked but slaty of head clear with little oro brown tinge - presumably it is a male. Type examined September ie 1933-6 A. ney Van Rossen i yi fd tas ’ Lryern i | "a a —- me eee my met oh P Lie ae I d ih . a fi ¢ M iL 4 a errs a —— pe i — ~* ev. 9 7 4 _ ne Ved (he ta) LAdadal wy ee ‘ By a : cave ir ~~ Fa) "ita { A} rail * * Q ’ of id » ae i is bd é ‘, | ‘ ‘ wi hu #2 \ ” 4 4 4 » & OL ” bead ote ¢ e €i&.. 2ite Seat - i bad ote 2 aezeqticnse syed et aT 1 ait mons i Ti Ao BG a DESKS : "jt bated gee ON -paieeierny ieee! dat ue iar De! oO EL aie ‘OLaR iG Junco phaeonotus phaeonotus Wagler Junco phaeonotus Wagler Type No number. Collection - Munchen. Wing right 78.0, deft 77.5, tail 69.5, exp. culmen 11.1, tarsus right 21.6, left broken, middle toe minus claw right IZ01, left 14.0, Keerl. "Mexico", Skin, taken down from mount, in very bad cone dition. Gives the impression of having been mummified by immersion in some liquid. Mandible missing entirely, maxilla blackish horn color. Right tarsus broken off and hanging by wire, tarsi and feet pale dull yellow. Plumage abraded as -though taken in mid-summer, abrasion not excessive however. Greater coverts, (outer webs) "tertials" (outer webs) and scapulars reddish like back though slightly duller. Outer tail feather white for 47 mm. along vane on outer web, though dusky for the terminal 17 mm.; second entirely dusky on outer web and white for 34 mm. on inner web (along the vane), the white intruding along the vane as a wedge 11 mn, long - that is the white extends only 23 mm. along the edge of the inner web. 3rd, Ath & "deck" pair entirely dusky though with grayish edgings on the outer webs. Rump inclining to olive. Type examined by me at Munchen August 21, Note for Miller. -— Have you considered the possibilities of some of the S. A. Poospiza being in reality Junco? Particularly personata, Salvin from the Peruvian Andes and laeta Salvin of the Same mountain? They are much more "Junco" to superficial appearances at least than is vwulcani. (Over) ego | rar oy ho EN et ay OD is he Ba: om ; FT eg Ty) shoe Remarks: Three tags attached. An old (original) green one "Junco cinereus Sw. [later crossed out] Junco phaeonotus Wagl. Mexico Keerl leg."35 a new museum tag "Junco phaeonotus Wagler. Mexico Keerl coll. and the red type tag in Hellmayr's writing. | ae e oA J. Van Rossem Ae J.Van Rossem abt ray “hase is atm wees’ B wh with nee ahd! Cee oe el ea Me owe Leucosticte griseonucha (Brandt) Passer arctuos var pains Type i Fringilla griseonucha Brandt Type Montifringilla postulata Cabanis Type No. 6683. Collection - Berlin. Wing 112.0, tail 77.0, expe culmen 14.2, depth 10.0, tarsus 25.0, middle toe minus claw17.1, Merle. Date 1790. Locality Kurilisehe Inseln "Unalescha". Mounted bird in fair condition but in terribly abraded plumage. No sex on stand; probably a @ by dull coloration & size. On the stand is written 2 Fs pustulata & Fasser arctuous var. Pall. a ch) furitten in by Stresemann Unalescha Merle leg. 1750.'/ Pallas Kurilische Inseln 6683 Wildenow There is another label attached to the bird on one side Montifringilla grisbiinucha, Bp. & Sch. mas adult Fringilla (Linaria) griseonucha Brandt Leucosticte griseigenys Gould on the other side Fringilla pustulata Ill. mai Passer actuos [sic] var y Pallas Fringilla Gris [illegible] (illegible] von Pallas Type examined at Berlin August 26, 1933. Ae Jd. Van Rossem tty, Pu eney ye a er nyous oases ad OP) x hen sta ae 4 re) =i | he isl ay mies Rha a we, | % + “ we Hat. oe Pr: veh hu . 7 ae Oy - Mi, Othe Oo%, Ta thee, at tt of % het i oa 5 i tated! ee iy © f al i we Aout ’ ve ~ aes ; eps ae tbe i 3 a, putea’ ie, Rio MAR fade a Sd 6. CTR hae tw i ste eee uk WM Sp ok ebb. AO TO i, nadine - oh “aihto ot me Se sy. oc s), Baadee, | 7 fatdigeth cad Bailie 7 i heth a ® a ta ‘Ae Lophortyx douglasii douglasii (Vigors) Ortyx douglasii Vigors Type Zool. Journ., 4, no. 15, Oct. 1828 [= Jan., 1829], Art. XLVIL, p. 354 ("Monterey"). No. 1855.12.19.378. Wang 109.0, tail missing, culmen 10.8, 9, tarsus 29.0, middle toe minus claw 25.5. "Monterey", 552 12.19.378. Lophortyx douglesi (Vig. ) Monterey! [Mazatlan] Ex coll. Zoological Society. on reverse - Original of Mr. Vigors descr. & Audubon figure 3567. 0. douglasii Probably from Mazatlan, see Gambel J. Ac. Philad. N.S. 1, p. 218 (1849) Cola. ‘by. Capt. Beechey. Also red type tag 1855.12.19.378. Collected during Capt. Beechey's voyage in the Blossom. Purchased at the sale of the Zool. Soc.Collectinns in” L655'. Skin in fair condition taken down from mount - tail missing, a dark souther® bird most probably irom san Blas, Examined at london Sept. 20, 1933. As J. Van Rossem e" wiie ity ie cae ‘4 io aoe . r wat is As fNt Ce v ec eee ou jetas 9 a 24 Ml | RB pines rth TENE ie S wets a \ A - oak = | ee Lm ; osittool 7 hoe BOLE addy i Leucopternis ghiesbreghti ghiesbreghti (DuBus) Buteo ghiesbreghti DuBus TYPE Exquire Orn., 1” livr. 1843, pl. 1 & text. 3184. Brussels. Wing 353, tail 218, culmen from cere 26.3, depth at cere 17.8, tarsus 81.5, middle toe minus claw 35.3, "9". Mounted bird in good condition; apparently a fully adult female; plumage shows but slight abrasion any- where. Tail band varying 45-50 mm. across both webs of all rectrices; lightly streaked on shoulders as show in plate. "3184 ad Mexique (von Ghiesbreght) Type DuBus states that his type came from 1'Hacienda de Miradar, some leagues from Vera Cruz. Brussels, July 14, 1939. Translationof "the discovery of this remarkable bird is due to M. Aug. Ghiesbreght, of Bruxelles, — who in 1838 and 1839 explored, by order of the government, the different provinces of Mexico." But so far as I know he was only in Vera Cruz, Tabasco, and Yucatan! The other specimen mentioned by DuBus "killed at Tepitongo in Septanber, 1843". This specimen was donated to the Museum by Ghiesbreght in 1856 — hence possibly he made other trips or possibly he acquired the bird fyom Galeotti, A. J.Van Rossem ie RRA, Ge es, eae AS ! A ; eye SM neni ca re ff 7 = icon uke eon? i Ht: QO a fee dD Bae REL at TE To Ct), RB crgeot | Stim hor Sane ERE cid li. 4 keene Chee pict wit a, rome. ge Daly lia a ' ea PUN oe, a - er * ern sans a , : ‘ Cc oi j fy tee ihe tatu vei Ve eeu reve 1OnW both in : i + : a — sed < te wiht, a aikew! CSTE ES 1 Bde) oe stone oD f * eh CW a ts ‘ee 7, 7 14 ae! ' Peo She) cy | mt toh Duly hh chelate r ot i sel : * i 4 pr. w f = v3. Site ag’ y » hes re | 4s aces nee wh je ; . SGN } . \ ty ite tw 4 Mane) i wey AP 4 * “ory oer v eT oe 4 ay. : te wae ty =f 4 Py ae Se Oe he ie Bis, ee.” ep oRe pts Be Bis: Pe mall Ye Bw iy i i hee cae: WO be PAs Es 3: tela ime. avuey os ” 1 eee tr a git 4 tee oe =" “ eee e . a wry mae Ta ~y¥) etolikeal ba STE ‘. if ' e “ages ce ‘ i iL + $44) wt Es 1 ; z “ ani ae. * ; WEL é er f i | \ ae ~ Moly . ‘ ti at 4 Paap ott) " \ 4 rs 5=ds oak a | exh = ia ‘ a yen’ INSET a ou _ a : 2 dntikle MAGES Qe =e ‘ aes Nien BV thoteNLb ene WED aiOV Alias th weet I. gs Tat os tua a 5) oe toeatpanyt | Bie 7 y: DE awh) CMUAT VG FHS CeAcOegs “ons, eit Plows elst 8k .8u Tiel wees sy. og quodhyal | aigeudeviil on weal’ ody oF Gatadsh” J eRtes. TO sot nay apes ei Yidbeeon Mn oSsi nn, ire fet hole M ies se0K Fy Pes v es oa’ > * Loxia curvirostra pusilla Gloger Loxia pusilla "Licht" Gloger Type (& Cotype) Number 69.84. Collection - Berlin Wing 90.5, tail 54.0, exp. culmen 18.8, depth 10.3, tarsus 16.5, middle to e minus claw 15.0, Beske. Locality - "Georgia" Nord America". Mounted bird in fair condition, plumage abraded, | though nd’excessively so. An adult male with plumage a rather light brownish red or dark orange red. Back dusky with little red hue due most likely to abrasion. L. americana Bonap. Eingang Nov. 1823 [written in] written in Georgia Nord America 6984 Beske Also Stresemann's red type tag. Probably a cotype is 9 No. 6985. Collection - Berlin. Wing 89.0, tail 55.5, Exp. culmen 18.0, depth 10.0, tarsus 17.0, middle toe minus claw 13.6. Beske. "Nord America". Types examined by me at Berlin on Aug. 25, 1933. Dr. Stresemann tells me that Beske was a dealer in bird skins at Hamburg and that his son in America sent him specimens from there. They were mostly marked "Nord Amerika" but occasionally an additional locality ranging from New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Carolina and Georgia were added. These, nowever are thoroughly unreliable for a perasal of the old catalogues shows many impossible locality records. Remarks: Lichtenstein had 4 birds (see Nomencl. Av. Berol) and these are all still in the Museum 2 are small (Over) 1 eeepc pene ET TTC CCT TT LL rt my GP abe bag an fd tase . a iM ; iy wba Bede: hs or al yi Paget 4! a “4 scl oh noc ae ‘depend : Bek 4 . Perk Ls % rice “pp am" . oy ayaa net alts ca the hea at are, ERATE A bain e a ae ; are , Sahat " Oh Lat Le hte ita etal ase it aheurn Pe i ° a yuan ak . ‘ AB ae rites, di GAR La, a0 on — noe or Yh cary 8 aa # eg Pe vdbalybred eae e), = ee. Py ay al i mud . er : cori ra, Ae ob ae wn ath 4B cola fie Cine? NS _ 7 t cr ‘Loti “a buce typical eastern - and it is very unfortunate that Btresemann has designated -the large bird in print as the type. NBS Van Rossem nae i se aurpD i ri sere Ri Mialacoptila panamensis panamensis Malacoptila costaricensis Cabanis Type LL Number 16,288. Collection - Berlin. ling 89.0, tail 61.0, culmen 28,5, [%], tarsus 14.5, middle toe minus claw 15.9. Von Frantzius. Locality Costa Rica. Localities mentioned by v. Frantzius in Jef.0. 1869 pe 312 are San Mateo — Guaitil — Paeuar; Angostura. Malacoptila panamensis Lafr. 1847 Malacoptila costaricensis Cab.* 1863 Costa Rica 16288 v Frantiius S. Mounted bird in fair condition & slightly abraded plumage. A very heavily streaked bird of dark, rich, coloration. It seems to be exactly like a specimen from Panama, save that the crown and ear coverts are more slaty. Type examined Aug. 29 1933.6 A. J. Van Rossem i? a8 os se uel ree ifr! eas, of en ry plo f pam vs a dB it Bint at roe a ec) i paachet, eet 7 ‘oils stued f (iia i sanity bai nye on? Rate Pere tak ot oy bet Late : ri ee “sey Hank saunar we = Ve er, a 7 oes, a and a ae eons. eT ? ale: arcs gat ere save . Melanotis caerulescens Turdus melanotis Temminck Type & Paratypes Leiden. Wing 113, tail 122, culmen 20.5, tarsus 30.4, middle toe minus claw 20.0, Mexique. Leiden. Wing 112, tail 121, culmen 22.5, tarsus 31.0, middle toe minus claw 21.0, "2", Mexique. The above date from Temminck's time and are probably paratypes. Leiden, Wing 114, tail 123, culmen 23.4, tarsus 32.2, middle toe minus claw 21.3. Mexique. Turdus melanotis, T. Merle oreillon noir inds.fipeehle Cols 498 Mexique. This mount agrees most closely with the plate, save that the outer rectrices on the right side are missing. However, this is of no particular importance in view of the explicit tag statement that this is the specimen figured. Mounted bird in fair @ndition save as above. Plumage fairly fresh, as if taken in, perhaps, midwinter. Plate as colored is very mech too blue. Examined at Leiden on July 3, 1939. Ae JeVan Rossem Brie igs aa Tape ms Sion ‘ weds wet anand hal @: nied ar ceo bP Melanotis caerulescens caerulescens (Swainson) Turdus erythrophthalmis Lichtenstein Types No. 3693. Collection — Berlin, Wing 105.0, tail 118.0, culmen 24.0, "mas" [im], tarsus 30.2, middle toe minus claw Loe a. Deppe. Locality Temascaltepec. No. 3694. Collection -.Berlin. Wing 107.0, tail 121.0, culmen 24.2, "fem" [ad,], tarsus 31.0, middle toe minus claw 20.2. Deppe. Locality Xalapa. No. 3695. Collection - Berlin. Wing 116.0, tail 135.0, culmen 25.3, "mas" [ad.], tarsus 31.1, middle toe minus claw 21.2. Deppe. Locality Xalapa [selected as the type]. T. erythrophthalmus N. [ase {Turdus melanotis Tem. Gre ve sock Xalapa 3695 Deppe Fresh plumage (midwinter or fall). mounted of course. Both Xalapa specimens equally fresh. The Temascaltepeck - also from Deppe's first trip (von Sock) is abraded as though taken in midsummer. Stresemann selects 3695 as the type. Examined August 27, 1933. A. J, Van Rossem Ln ® Ene) m Tete ) al on ema > Se at ihe ea hie Ea ge Pi: Baa rog Lb Mi, oe Ae ou wae e oh eer byw nt ae * pty ec: agg i 4 Ps r rs Py Say sth Pr) , 5" ry ig , » ry te ri ‘ y. AN ae Vilakis Bite Bees te ee arsth oe? y ' a e x wn aa rh Py fi Beaty blades pctowil ~ eatin e lon EGE iH (Sau, Petites g(t aa Ohh owls 0 OLe er rey, } + Oe ae ie vt ; ot’ & Cie de hie a vibe SS ide Wa : Fa. Sg he BLO ANEe OQ OT LBA kane yt + ys. ey re | ‘ ee ke ' yh < ‘ Nd We ¥ a, a rey ii i - POLS} PB A tlie rm wine, vn fie on 7 " Ss i “4 ' 7 ie ‘ ‘ * x vag we PHuARY Lluis eae bre » oe panier) ARIARLLSI 2 ig W bd Shue i cade hE ate fie n | - rae wt b Al uot ety Fy ( if ath a] wayl eas f' par * ~ * "i “, , eh ! e : Tore 7 Pee dite VAAL aceOu, «lay y : nw “ f thes ff i gieakt. vine a wit Ove ‘ “oy ° za wn Oe * wa ES oy hy 3 Lal Wi. an ' a Eas 55 iP 7” - batcetes }) sgates is ieee Deas 4: eee a, tobe =i a 4 F a p a oie ee ee a ee ; #... ———— y ‘ sk meh Y j oo Ne ra : Sta are ses a i he ia. ri datett a We dl, bosiehey daws , ai hehe = AO Oe, ek shoed> 2artiiGe a REL 2, Sage tiey te % us snl ee Aied Lppepayy aroma bu rel ce ont ae baewhe wt (ioee eon ach ed? ME atog tap AegMOE TTS | +41 ee z Ve te fay | ee v Hi y a ‘ — : ~ a .) 2! 7 a. ae Melozone kieneri rubricatum (Cabanis) Atlapetes rubricatus Cabanis Type No. 6237. Collection - Berlin. Wing 70.5, tail 62.5, exp. culmen 12.0, depth 8.4, tarsus 23.6, middle toe minus claw 16.2. Deppe. Locality Real Arriba [Puebla]. Melozone rubricata Cab. [meaning type] Atlapetes rubricatus Cab.* Tanagra rubricata Licht. M. B. fem. Real Arriba 6237 Deppe. Mounted bird in fair condition but in badly abraded (late summer) plumage. Examined by me at Berlin Aug.25, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem ig) Bed rave wae I babér wa ole Melozone occipitalis (Salvin) Pyrgisoma occipitale Salvin Type No. 1885.12.14.364. Collection - B.M., Wing 75.0, tail 73.0, exp. culmen 15.3, depth 9.2, tarsus 28.2, middle toe minus claw 19.0. Locality - Savana Grande, Guatemala. Pyrgisoma leucote Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 205: Scl & Salv. Ex. Orn. F. 64 (specimens figured). Type of P. occipitale, Salv. Ibis, 1878 Oct. (originally, 1862 of Salv. & Godm. collection). 85. 123 As 1364. Red type tag with citation - but numbered 364. ‘Skin in fair condition, notable for extention of yellow green clear around hind necks lares and eyelids white except in anterior part of eye where narrowly black; center gray, crown stripe very wide — black latterals narrow. Examined at London, Sept. 7, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem be ta ws vy us h . avn A Se Oe a ee i te al te ae : : ie y f —————————E———————————————=—_S------—--—-- Myiarchus cinerascens cinerascens (Lawrence) Tyrannula mexicana Kaup Type No number. Collection - Darmstadt. Wing 91.5, tail 87.0, culmen 18.0, No sex [9] , tarsus 22.0, middle toe minus claw 14.7. Locality - Mexico. Green, tag attached | Myiarchus mexicanus Type der Art. Kaup Kat Mexico Examined by me at Darmstadt Aug. 22, 1933. Mounted bird (removed from mount) in very slightly abraded plumage. Tail characters are normal for 2 of cinerascens. Ae J.Van Rossem Mviarchus cinerascens inauietus Salv. Myiarchus inquietus S. & G. Type No. 99.4-20.1479. Collection - Brit.Mus. Wing 85.5, tail 82.5, exp. & base culmen, 17.5, 21.5, 9, tarsus 20.1, middle toe minus claw 13.2. Mrs. H. H. Smith. Oct. 18-'88. Agaguizotla, 3500 ft., Guerrero, Mexico. Original tag on reverse Acaguazotla Oct. 1& Described B.C.A.Av. II 2 D.W.S. M. inquietus sp. n. also a Salvin-Godman tag & the Brit. Mus. red type tag. Skin in fair condition, in fresh, newly acquired plumage, showing perfectly the racial characters. Examined Sept. 15, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem soe 8 iy figee era poe ore oe oH . abana at 83" re ee Wey Va { r i & A > wu ok 5.0 ee) Dy, oe ; ay ; aw, hh ok weve) tv Let Sie Ss ine a as wks benz or - . , i 4 4 eer fs ped vt al th ' ene” ae i 4 ¥ ‘ Myiarchus tuberculifer nigricapillus Cabanis Myiarchus nigricapillus Cabanis Types No. 16,332 Collection - Berlin. Wing 75.5, tail 71.5, culmen 17.0, no sex, tarsus 20.2, middle toe minus claw 10.8, von Frantzius. Locality - Costa Rica. No. 16,333. Collection — Berlin. Wing. 77.0, tail 74.5, culmen 18.2, no. sex, tarsus 18.2, middle toe minus claw 10.2, von Frantzius. Locality .- Costa, Rica. No. 16,334. Collection - Berlin. Wing 78.0, tail 78-5, culmen 17.6. no sex, tarsus 19,0, middie toe minus claw vén Frantzius. Locality - Costa Rica. Myiarchus nigricapillus Cab.* Costa *ica 16332 [=3 &¥-4] v. Frantzius. Mounted birds in fair condition 32 & 34 in relatively fresh plumage - 33 in abraded plumage. AlL essentially alike in color — pileum of all definitely dark brown (clove brown) not black - backs olivaceous. There is no sharp contrast between crown and back - the colors blending gradually on nape and hindneck. Types examined Aug. 29, 1933. Remarks. Name of nigricapillus is correctly applied . by Griscom & Peters. Ae J. Van Rossem TNR Ms ae Mylochanes virens sordidulus Contopus sordidulus Sclater Type Number 88.1.13,1024. Collection - B. Mus. Wing 82.5, tail 62.5, from nostrils culmen 10.5, tarsus 13.0, middle toe minus claw 7.8. Botteri. Locality - @rizaba. Width nostrils 7.0. E Mus P.L.Sclater Type. of C. sordidulus Scl. 1859 1418 A Petes Arizaba Botteri 1359. De AS Gs i1.s-2O2he Skin in slightly abraded plumage, and only fair condition. Mandible pale brown, dusky tip. The whole plumage is so dirty with soot or fat stain (or both combined) that color characters are practically worthless. However, the pileum is only slightly darker than the back; the throat, neck, chest & sides are so extensively dark that there is no possibility of this being a small virens. This bird is not the smaller biack-capped race of Central Americas Examined at London, September 14, 1933. A. Je Van Rossen Nuttallornis borealis Myiarchus villicus Lichtenstein Types Muscicapa mesoleuca " No. 2402. Collection - Berlin. Wing 102.0, tail 71.5, culmen 16.5, "mas", ‘tarsus 15.2, middle toe minus clawi11.5, Deppe. Locality - Oaxaca. ‘No. 2403. Collection - Berlin. Wing 108.0, tail 72.0, culmen 18.7, tarsus 15.3, middle toe minus claw 11.6.. Deppe. Locality - Oaxaca. Hellmayr has designated 2402 as the type of Lichtenstein's \uscicapa mesoleucus, a proceeding which would have been entirely within his rights as a revisor if either of these two birds were identifiable as the basis of the exceedingly sketchy description. Lichtenstein's description of Muscicapa mesoleucus appeared in the well known list of Mexican bird names (Preiz-Verzeichnis mexicanischer Végel, 1830, page 2.. It reads "Muscicapa mesoleuca Licht. Graugrinlich, mit weisslicher Kehle und dergl. Bauch". Now by no stretch of the imagination could the olive sided flycatcher be described as grayish green and that Lichtenstein had an entirely different bird in: hand is evident not only from the description but. from the following facts. The two specimens collected by Deppe at Oaxaca were the basis of Lichtenstein's name of Myiarchus villica - a nomen nudum which appeared in Les Nomenclator Avium lus. Berol., 1854, p. 16, since both of them _are labelled Me Wastes N mas Oaxaca. .2402 1Gr.v. “Sock Deppe. [and 2403] (Over) sco ai, i ' ta : 7s ‘aad ie vs or . | onta t ef i er a aenth. 4 oof ot. a ale . rr Hi) = _— ———— Ze It is incomcievable that Lichtenstein would have called these birds mesoleuca in one description and later given them another name with no word of explanation. Furthermore Cabanis and Heine in the list of synonyms of Contopus cooveri Jie Nuttalornis borealis] in Mus. Hein. 2, 1859, p.72, list villicus as a synonym of that species. Certainly they never associated the name mesoleucus with the olive sided flycatcher. - There is a specimen of a South American fly- catcher in the Berlin Museum labelled M. mesoleuca N. is Montevideo 2506 Salle It is the only flycatcher in the collection bearing a label (old ‘or’new) with such | name inscribed. This bird (fide Dr. Stresemann) was in the collection at Berlin at the time Muscicapa mesoleuca was described _and is, therefore, without doubt the bird Lichtenstein had in hand at the time. Moreover it is a gray-green bird with whitish throat and belly, thus in accord with the description. It is. probable that this name appeared in the- list of Mexican birds through oversight for in the aforementioned Nomenclater. (1854) Lichtenstein lists two specimens of "Myiarchus’ villicus" frem.Mexico and one specimen of "Elaenea mesoleuca" from:-Montevideo, . : 3 Cabanis and Heine, five years after Lichtenstein Nomenclatar appeared described (Mus. Hein. 2, 1859, pe 60) the identical species under the name of Elaenia mesoleuca, basing their description on a specimen in the Museum Heineanum from Rio Grande [do Sul, south eastern Brazil]... Whether: they used this name through coincidence or not is immaterial,.- The fact remains that Lichtenstein's type. of _Muscicapa mesoleuca is extant and his description, brief as it is, is perfectly applicable to the type. . he The citation for. Elaenea mesoleucus should, therefore, be corrected to read Klaenea mesoleucus (Lichtenstein). _ Muscicapa mesoleuca Lichtenstein, Prreiz. Verz. Mex. Vég., 1830, p. 2 ("Mexico" [errore = Montevideo, Uruguay]. A. J. Van Rossem es wt” iso mea ; i 4) a y ARO. " 7 —=yee? §.e% Biles 4 dey uh. a | bs . ae dh de ™ nor hs i : 6 ‘wi: aie a 13 = carey TS i af vhs 1) Th ai ; aU eT st Bis’ ae - ee a) tvesnGld moth" fede sola LauON = 7 ie Ss = a wacllsle asamp: ef cn +» Sree prredeau. 7 ab EY ras ote UL oT ae “eqiabtentos - ; eal eh ae Oy eS hh) Bone dy elite tanodtloht tout mi ic e* en) Se fei ‘2 aro TG Oh SIA ois Jastxe > iv weit ot. heinmiices ile gui! aed ett gta a sutbeets od?’ pays Be eos Gu, balorwmen: ace fe oe i Pas ibe ‘ = 7 26 Nuttallornis borealis Myiarchus villicus Lichtenstein Types Muscicapa mesoleuca (Cont'd. ) The olive-sided Flycatcher once again resumes its rightful name of borealis Swainson. Ae Je Van Rossem tnd od orale yet | pean Nuttallornis borealis borealis (Swainson) Tyrannula borealis Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 109.0, tail 72.0, culmen 18.0 "9", tarsus 14.2, middle toe minus claw 11.5. Date 1827. Locality - Carlton House, Sask. Female Carlton Swainson Now 53 May 1827 Tyrannula Borealis New Cambridge Mus. Tag also;skin in poor condition - nearly fresh plumage. Exam. Sept. 21, 1933 at Cambridge. A. J-Van Rossem Oreortyx picta picta (Douglas) m Ortyx plumifera Gould Type Number 55.12.19.30. Collection - B.M. Wing 137.0, tail 80.0, culmen 14.2, tarsus 36.5, middle toe minus claw 30.4. Douglas. Locality- "California". Delia eu. Oreortyx pictus (Douglas) Type No. 21 Pickhardt California Ex. Coll. Zoological 18/3/84. Society. Also a red type tag. Ortyx plumifera S555 2s 9. 30 Gould Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p.42 Ex. Zool. Soc. Museum California collected by D. Douglas. Skin, taken down from mount, not in good condition. Plumage only slightly abraded as if taken in winter or early spring. Adult in first winter plumage - probably a male. This bird is of the Sierra Nevada race - a perfectly typical specimen. Remarks: See Prot. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 42. - This type was from the Douglas collection. There is, of course, no type of picta picta. A. Je Van Rossem of my an aT ae . ° ° ° ° i Oriturus superciliosa superciliosa (Swainson) Oriturus mexicanus Bonaparte TYPE (Consp. Gen. Avium, 1, 1850, 469). No number. Leiden. Wing 78, tail 72.5, exp. culmen 15.2, depth at base 10.0, tarsus 25.8, middle toe IMinus claw 16.3. "Mexique2. Mounted bird in good condition; an adult with little or no abrasion apparent on plumage — hence probably callected in midwinter or fall. Itis typical of the southern race with rather dark olive brown hue latterally on the underpart and reddish brown margins dorsally. There is one old label on the stand Aimophila superciliosa Sw. Mexique. The Aimophila superciliosa is written by quite another hand than the locality, and careful comparison of Temminek's writing apparently fixes him as the author. The Mexique" is written by the same person who inscribed the label on the stand of Oriturus wrangeli (which see) and the two specimens would, therefore, seem to be con- temporary. This is the only superciliosa in the collection = old or new — and there can be little doubtt as to its authenticity as the type. Qriturus Bp. has many years priority over Plagiospiza Ridg. Bonaparte explains his transposition of the "description" of mexicanus, and wrangeli in Compt. Rend: Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, no. 8, 1856; p. 413, - states that his genus Oriturus should not be re- cognized since it is composed only of what he now knows to be only Aimophila superciliosa Swainson and Pipilo crissalis. His words are "Le genre a ; i 7 ! Oriturus doit etre abali: des deux espéces dout il se composait, le type du Mexique Or. mexicanus de mon conspectus est 1' Aimophila superciliosa, Sw. (1). Le seconde espéce Or. wrangeli, Brandt, de 1' Amerique russe et non de la Siberie, et un Pipilo & queue wn peu plus allongée que dans les antres, dout P. crissalis ne semble meme pas différer." Hellmayr is, of course, completely wrong in his allocation of Oriturus to Pipilo. Bonaparte's original diagnosis is not a nomen nudum even though inadequate until later clarified. A, J-Van Rossem i A I i et eae i a A Al il a EN ht Ortalis poliocephala Penelope poliocephala Wagler Type No. 11,902. Collectinn - Berlin. Wing 265.0,: tail 310.0, culmen 24.1, d ad., tarsus 72.0, middle toe minus claw 48.0. Deppe. Locality - Vera Cruz. Penelope poliocephala mase Wagl. 1830 Vera Cruz 11902 Deppe S. Mounted bird in fair condition. Tail & wings in moult. Examined Aug. 31, 1933 at Berlin. See Unlinn Yome “oa “Vere Cass" 19 “as CULT. A, J. Van Rossem Ortalis vetula vetula (Wagler) Penelope vetula Wagler Type No number. Collection - Minchen. Wing 191., tail 22.8, exp. culmen 21.4, tarsus 63.0, middle toe minus claw 44.2. No sex Adult in Moult. Locality - Mexico. Skin in poor condition, taken down from mount and still retaining glass eyes. A dark, richly colored bird with tail feathers dipped with pure white (21 mm.) along the vane of 3rd from outer pair which are new and unabraded. - Upper surface of tail dark glossy green with a slight bronzy tint toward outer edges of feathers; under tail covers dull reddish brown, much same color on chest though duller and darker. Four tags old green reading Ortalida vetula Wagl. Mexico; newer green mus. tag NOrtalis vetula (Wagl) ad. Mexico", new museum tag blank and old red type tag "Typus von Penelope, vetula Wagler Isis 1830, p. 1112. Examined by me at Munich on Aug. 21,1933. A. Je Van Rossem Otocoris alpestris chrysoleema (Wagler) Alauda chrysolaema Wagler (Types) No number. Collection - Munchen. Wing 99.0, tail 69, culmen 11.6 [d ad.], tarsus 21.5, middle toe minus claw 10.4, black band on forehead 11. wide. Locality - Mexico (Keerlg). No number. Collection - Munchen. Wing 93.0, tail 62.0, culmen 10.4, [9], tarsus 21.0. , middle toe minus claw 10.1. "Locality Mexico (Keerl¢). Skins in poor condition, partially dismounted. Plumage abraded as if birds were taken in late summer. 3 tags;an do old green label "Otocoris cornuta Sw. Alauda chrysolaema Wgl. Mexico") new white mseum tag "Otocorys chrysoloema Wagler. ad. Mexico, coll. Keerl"; red type tag "Alauda chrysoloema Wagler Isis, pag 3 [007]. 3 tags on 9; old green me, "Otocoris cornuta Sw. Alauda glacialis L. Mexico's new white museum tag, and red type tag reading exactly as in the male. I think the type tags are by Hellmayr. Types examined Aug. 21, 1933 at Mlnich. 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Fa cl a a ll il ANS I et - Otus flammeolus (Kaup) Scops flammeola Kaup Types No. 1188. Collection - Berlin. Wing 120.0, tail 57.0, Peculmen from cere-10.0, [do], “tarsus 2525. middle toe minus claw 13.3. Schleiden. Locality Mexico. No. 1189.. Collection - Berlin. Wing 131.0, tail 65.0, culmen from cere 9.3, [sex?], tarsus 25.7, middle toe minus claw 13.3. Brassert Locality Mexico. Mounted birds in fair condition. 88 in reddish phase, 89 in grayish phase. Examined by me Aug. 30, 1933. A. Je Van Rossem Parabuteo unicinctus unicinctus (Temminck) No. G31. Collection - Paris Mus. Wing 312, tail 210, culmen from cere 21.3, no sex, tarsus 81.0, middle toe minus claw 40. St. Hilaire. Date - Aug. 1822, Locality -— Cap. de. Rio Grande du Sud Tui pris Boa Vista, Bresil. Type of the species. Mounted bird in fair con- dition. It is in the dark phase and looks to me like a bird of the year though I cannot be sure. At any rate it looks exactly like the blackish types of young found in Sonora and California. It is marked on the stand "Cap. de Rio Grande du Sud, Tui pris Boa Vista, Brésil. Mr. Aug te St. Hilaire, Aout, 1822 Adulte, G. 31 [the Cat. No]. Falco wnicinctus Temm. pl. 313. Type de la planeche et de 1' espéce." Examined by me on July 28, 1933. July 31 - However I find recent South American specimens fully adult which are exactly like the type. Young S.A. birds are streaked. Ae Je Van Rossem i aa y q oe abl eh arene ity Passerculus alaudinus Bonaparte Fne Ll ype No. - Collection -. Wing - left 63.0, right 64.0, Tail from insertion of deck pair 43, exp. culmen 10.7, base 11.4, depth at base 6.0, tarsus - left 17.5%, right 17.7*, middle toe minus claw, left 13.0, right 13.1. Locality - California. The type is a mounted bird in abraded, midsummer plumage, hence taken in the late breeding season or in early fall before the moult. It is, without any question whatever an example of the race now known as bryanti Ridgway and was compared with other examples of "bryanti" in the Paris Museum. While in proportion, in- cluding size and shape of bill, and in fact in no way can be referred to any race other than "bryanti" it is abnormal to the extent that it is partially albinistic. The whole nape, back and upper rump is variegated with white and the entire underparts are affected to the extent that the streaking is greatly reduced in color (brown instead of black) and is reduced to a minimun. : The streak over the eye tinged with yellow and there are remains of a yellow wash on the cheeks also. Both tarsi have been broken and jambed up in wiring, though this is not noticeable except on close examined. On the bottom of the stand is written "acquis' a M. Delatre (sic), an de 1853 (Cat. No. 391) California". In a different band is "Passerculus alaudinus Bp. (Type)". Reference to the catalogue shows that this speci- men came to the Museum with a small collection from Delattre. There are three"Emberiza's" cited in the list, one of which was made the type of Haemdophila ruficauda - the other I cannot trace, nor is there a record of it. Ae Je Van Rossem ty billie bith mx ‘oar a Met . ‘ “er hwy ates a ee heh ick Wit Red ole Gh Ye ait Chalet “= i Wee Passerculus sandwichensis anthinus Bonaparte Peasserculus anthinus Bonaparte TYPE | 178. Brussels. Wing 71, tail 52, exp. culmen 9-7, depth at base 5.0, tarsus 19.9, middle toe minus claw 14.5. Kadiak. Mounted bird in fairly good condition, though poorly postured; a bird of the year in complete post—juvenile plumage save for a few upper and under tail coverts which are juvenile. Thus probably taken 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 (now) pale yellow, and whole head bears traces of suffusion of this color - probably originally mich more prominent than now. Likewise, by disarranging the dorsal plumage it is obvious that the brovms and clay—color edgings were more pronounded than the exposed portions of the plumage show at pre- sent. There is no doubt whatever that this individual is a normal example of the "VWiestern Savanna Sparrow". Streaking on pectoral region & flanks dark, reddish brown -— relatively narrow. This bird is from the DuBus collection according to Dubois catalogue, along with nine others from various parts of the United States and Mexico. It is entered as 178 Kadiak (type de l'anthinus Bp.) Coll. D.B. It is of interest to note that in the old Brussels collection there is the following contributory evidence 789 [loc.] ? type du parnirostris Bp. UB. [Mus. Brussels] with a footnote - (translation) "This name is probably unpublished. It was so written on the old stand by Bonaparte himself." 789 has been crossed out in pencil with the notation ref — which I am informed means "destroyed" reformé. Brussels, July 17, 1939. Ae Je Van Rossem Passerella iliaca Passerella hyperborea No number. Collection - Leyden. Wing 79.0, tail 71.0, culmen 13.1, depth 9.2, tarsus 24.1, middle toe minus claw 16.1. Locality - Sitcha. Emberiza hyperborea a typical tovmsendi Curva. faum. TOss..p)-. though reddened a little 69 58D. 2s by age. Sitcha Mounted bird in fair condition, plumage evidently that of early summer. The label is a very old one with ink faded to pale brown. This bird and the next are Bonaparte's hyperborea (see Conspectus avium p. 477.) No number. Collection - Leyden. Wing 83.5, tail 75.0, culmen 13.3, depth 9.9, tarsus 23.0, middle toe minus claw16.7. Locality - Lle Cadjak. Emberiza hyperborea Ove Palle: LeGOSSe0 (pl iOS et teee The Cadjak. This is a good "insularis" These birds examined at Leyden Sept. 5, 1933. A. Je Van Rossem rencedramis olivaceus Syivia taeniata DuBus TYPE Pictured Exq. Orn. pl. 28, [dated 1850] (th livr.) 8214. Brussels. Wing 70.0, tail 49.5, exp. culmen 10.5, depth at base 3.5, tarsus 18.0, middle toe minus claw 11.5. Necessarily Ghiesbrecht at "Tabasco", Mounted bird in good condition; an adult male in good plumage with a slight amount of abrasion evident on tips of wing & tail -— hence probably spring or early summer. Marked in the register by Dubois as "8214. d = liexique - ? (type de taeniata BB). There are three birds in the collection (and register), the above No. 8214; 8214b and 8214 y. These latter two were secured from Parzudaki, evidently at a date later than the first because DuBus! description con- tains no reference to the 2 — which surely would have been described had he seen it. His description fits well with the above 8214 - including the "total length". The Parzudaki birds are much longer. &t any rate the two later birds are typical of southern Mexico in large size and olivaceous coloration. The type is darker, still more richly colored, is smali in all dimensions and is certainly "aurantiacus". Brussels, July 13, 1939. Bonaparte, Consp. 1, 1850, 309 cites "S. taeniata, Dubus Exq. Orn. figura ex Mexico m. S. redro, Oxaca [sic] Actually (by other species) it is San Pedro Tobasco prés de Oaxaca but doubtless from another specimen. Meise in 1938 has also identified this specimen as the type -— and so indicated by tagging it. Ae Je Van Rossem Petrochelidon albifrons melanogaster Swainson Petrochelidon swainsoni Sel. Type No. 58.9.27.1- Collection. B.M., Wing 103, Tail 47, o& Type of swainsoni Scl. June 1857. Locality Oxaca. Plumage abraded probably = 105 or more if freshe Forehead and throat dark like Mexican birds in general. . Ae Je Van Rossem 7 ey, ee Wein gait Phrygilus unicolor geospizopsis (Bonaparte) Passerculus geospizopsis Bonaparte TYFS Compt. Rend., 1853, 37, pe 92l. 7374b. Brussels. Wing 83, tail 57, exp. culmen 11.9, depth at base 6.8, tarsus 26.3, middle toe minus claw 14.7. "Colombia". Mounted bird in fair condition — plumage but slightly abraded; no sex indicated; plumage is that of juv. Central streaking on back 4.5 wide on interscapular region; 3 mm. on chest, rump & upper tail coverts gray; streaking obsolete. Brussels July 18, 1939. From DuBus collection. Probably came direct to us from Verreaux, as did another specimen from "N°~® Grenade", A, Je Van Rossem a ae Pheyicticus chrysopeplus « Coccothraustes chrysopeplus Vigors Type Noe S5ete2el9.19. Collection = Ball: Ving 112.0, tail 90.0, exp. culmen 27.4, width mand. 15.5, depth 20.7, tarsus 25.2, middle toe minus claw 21.0. Hugh Cumming. Locality "Mexico". Type C. chrysopeplus Vigors. - An adult male. Skin in poor condition, possibly at one time mounted. Plumage excessively abraded as though taken in late summer. Two tags — neither original. The first one is Nosetype. Brite Mis. Rec. 55.12.19 329 Phezcticus chrysopeplus, Vig. Loc. Mexico '— Ex. Coll. Zool. Soc. The second one is the red type tag reading on the face. Type Coccothraustes chrysopeplus Vigors Pelee L832 pe 4 “Coltecredtoye hush Cum#ingg in Mexico. Purchased. on the reverse is brit. Mus. Reg. 55.12.19.19. At the sale of the Zoological Society's Collection in 1855. A. J. Van Rossem Teo . ‘i PheYzopedius pleurostictus nisorius Sclater Thryothorus nisorius Sclater Type Proc. ‘Zool. (Soc. Lond.) 37,4 86950592) pl. 145. No. 4650. Collection - Berlin. Wing 68.0, tail 56.5, culmen 17.2 "mas". Tarsus 20.8, middle toe minus claw 14.7- Deppee Locality - Real Arriba [Puebla]? T. nisorius N. Mas. Real Arriba Deppe 4650 Mounted bird in fair condition, plumage slightly abraded. Typical of the race. Type examined August 26, 1933. A. J. Van Rossem K Phengopedius pleurostictus pleurostictus Sclater Thryothorus pleurostictus Sclater Type No number. Collection - Brit. Mus. Wing 56.5, tail 4560, culmen 15.6, No sex [9?] tarsus 19.7, middle toe minus claw14.0. Skinner. Locality -— Guatemala" = [Motagua Valley]. One tag only - on reverse Muse P. L.Sclater Type (Or Pelee Thryophilus plewrostictus Ibis, 1860, p.30 Guatemala Skinner. Skin in fair condition and slightly abraded plumage. Very sparsely barred on tertials and flanks. Examined Sept. 12. 1933. Remarks: The characters of the Motagua Valley race are small size (= lateralis) combined with white coloration below - ie very sparse barring. A. Je Van Rossem 7. as Philortyx fasciatus Gould Ortyx perrotiana Desmurs Type new - No. 22,576. “Wing 98.0, tail 60:0, culmen 11. 5, @, tarsus 27.5, middle toe minus claw 23.1, Perrot. Locality - Mexique. Mounted bird in good condition though soot stained. Not sexed but evidently a 2 of the year. On the bottom of the stand is written Eupsychortyx fasciatus (Gould). O perrotiana (DesMurs). Du Mexique, Acquis a M. Perrot. Prob. la type d' Ort. perrotiana. Desm. 12576. (C'est un nom manuscrit). "Type" examined by me at Paris, Aug. 2, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem Pipilo fuscus fuscus Swainson ‘Pipilo fusca Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Ving 91, tail 94, culmen 15.3, depth at base 9.0, tarsus 25.2, middle toe minus claw 17.5. Bullock Locality IE Mexico. In fresh fall plumage, probably a male by size in measurement. Typical Bullock skin. Tag [Pipilo fusca Sw. ] Bullk. Mexico Bruperad th Pally sy. o¥ Dd. Kuen, Ae Je Van Rossem aren: AA Pipilo macronyx macronyx Pipilo macronyx Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 98, tail 112, exp. culmen 16, depth at base 11.2, tarsus 32.5, middle toe minus claw 22.8, hind toe with claw 23.3, Bullock. Locality - See notes below. Not sexed - probably an adult male. The old tag reads [Pipilo macrényx Male? Mexico ] Attached is a folded sheet of paper presumably in Bullock's writing which says "JT have never seen this bird anywhere but between Mexico and St. Angel nor is it found within five leagues of the Capitol it is. extremely tame constantly in motion hides itself in thick bushes eye deep red and very small." Note: -— The other bird described by Swainson as the female is really another bird. Pipilo macronyx virescens of Hartlaub. July 2, 193s. Ae Je Van Rossem -Pipilo rutilus (Lichtenstein) Tanagra rutila Lichtenstein Type No. 6231. Collection - Berlin. Wing 87.0, tail 93-5, expe culmen 15.3, depth. 107, tarsus 28.7, middle toe minus claw. Locality - Oaxaca {ie-town of?] Pipilo rutilus Licht. Spec. Tanagra rutila Licht* Pipilo albicollis Sclat. mas. Oaxaca 6231 Deppe Mounted bird in fair condition, but terribly abraded (late summer) plumage. Ex. by me at Berlin August 25, 1933. A. J. Van Rossem Piranga flava hepatica Swainson Pyranga hepatica Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 101, tail 81.5, culmen 18.2, tarsus 22.2, middle toe minus claw 16.0, [Bullock]. Locality (Real del Monte, Hidalgo]. Old tag reads Genus PYRANGA P. hepatica Sw. Mexico. An adult male in perfect plumage,evidently taken in winter as there is no appreciable abrasion evident anywhere and even the feathers of the chest retain their faint gray dipping. ' A typical Bullock skin and the only such in the collection. It is without question the type. Remarks: This is exactly the form it has been presumed to be. It is not dextra Bangs yar now oreophasma Oberholser. I believe the type locality is wrong & should be Temascaltepec. Ae Je Van Rossem Plegadis falcinellus Ibis Ordii Bonaparte Type No. 1854-1202/14,161. Collection - Paris. Wing 285, tail 98.0, culmen 135, Sex?, tarsus 106.5, middle toe minus claw 66.0. Locality Etats Unis (Florida). Mounted bird in fair condition, on the bottom of the stand is des Etats unis (Florides), _ de la Collection donne por de P°© Charles Bonaparte on 1854 (Cat. No. 1202). Type d' Ibis Ordi, Ch. Bonap. American Ornithology VowemAwpis 25). giao This is the glossy ibis - not the white-faced species. Examined , by me August 3, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem Plegadis guaranna { sic] Tentalus chalcopterus Temminck TYPE PL. Cole 5,, Cobh Liv.., pl. dil. No number. Leiden. Wing 245, tail 97.5, culmen 120, tarsus 87.5, middle toe minus claw 59.2. "Chili". Cate lO. a Plegadis falcinellus guaranna ad Le New label Chili on stand on bottom of stand Ibis falcinellus Chalcopterus Temm. Type Catl. No. 26 Listed (No. 26) by Schlegel, Mus. P.B.,V, Ibis 1863,p.5. Agrees in detail with Temminck's plate 511, save that the feathers of the fore part of the crow are streaked mesially with light reddish brown. This same condition present, basally, over entire crown, though concealed by tips of dher feathers. Vihite of forehead 12 mm, wide in center, and white of chin extending back for 15 mm from point of gular Sace Plumage very rich and red, in very strong contrast to green wings & purplish-bronze back & scapulars. Other Chilian specimens here are equally white - faced and brightly colored. Examined at Leiden, July 7, 1939. Ae Je Van Rossem Polioptila bilineata bilineata (Bonaparte) Sylvia bilineata Bonaparte Type on No. 4052. Collection - Berlin. Wing 44.5, tail 40.0, culmen 11.8 [¢ ad], tarsus 15.5, middle toe minus claw 8.4. Hu&berlin. Locality Cartagena [ Colombia. Culicivora bilineata mase Bp. 1850 Cartagena 4052 v. Sock * (Hiberiamgss Mounted bird in fair condition, an adult male. Plumage slightly abraded. Black of head to nape, well down on sides of neck. Facial area & all of auriculars white - lares white with confluent - superciliary streak extending only 2-1/2 mn. from posterior corner of eye to above center of auriculars. Supericiliary streak separated from auriculars by a short black post—-ocular streak from posterior corer of eye, confluent with black of head. Outer tail feather white for 25 mm. on outer web - 22 on inners; second for 25 on outer web & 19 on inner; third for 11 mm on both webs & 4th with a white tip 3 mm. on both webs. All measured along the vane. Vane white where in contact with white areas. Tail graduated 9 mm. 7 of this being due to relative ‘shortness of outer pair. No. 4051. Collection — Berlin. Wing 43.5, tail 39.5, culmen 1i.1, [2], tarsus 15.0, middle toe minus claw 9.9. Huberlin. Locality - Cartagena [Colombia] tioned in the description. Head & tail pattern exactly as in the male. Examined at Berlin September 2, 1933. Mounted bird -— cotype probably though not men- : A. Je Van Rossem ian 7 > th i - ; / 1 | : = \ Be itl i = %, haw J Fa r4 debi Bin i , i” » + - ore ‘ 3 i ; ik \, ’ into we ed Messing 3S . 7 oaties Gtr 1 ae . | errs ny Polioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus) Culicivora mexicana Bonaparte Type No. 4046. Collection - Berlin. Wing 48.5, tail 49.5, culmen 9.9 "mas", tarsus 16.0, middle toe minus claw &.0. Deppe. Locality - Oaxaca. Mounted bird in fair condition, but with mandible missing. Wibhout doubt a female - probably in early winter and certainly a bird of the year. Polioptila caerulea obscura Ridgway 1883 mas Oaxaca 4046 V. Sack Deppe. Plus Stresemann's red type tag. Outer tail feathers white except wedge at base of inner webs; second pair white on inner webs for 24 mm. along vane and nearly to base on outer webs; third pair tipped with white for five mm. Tail graduated 8 mn; shafts Gees) of all tail feathers dusky. This bird is nothing but a young female (first fall or winter), Polioptila caerulea caerulea and is matched exactly with a specimen from South Carolina. Note that eastern caerulea has a more graduated tai] than the western N.A. races. Specimen examined Aug. 26, 1933. Ae J- Van Rossem ‘ « a ni li i ie EN lS re Polioptila Polioptila nigriceps anteocularis Hellmayr Types No. 18316. Collection - Berlin. Wing 49.0, tail 49.0, exp. culmen 12.2, [d ad.], tarsus 17.5, middle toe minus claw 9.2. Type - Locality Bogota [ Colombia] No. 18317. Collection - Berlin. Wing 48.5, tail A725, expe culmen 12.0, [@:ad.], tarsus 17.3, middle toe minus claw 8.7. Locality — Bogota { Colombia]. Mounted birds in fair condition. Plumage slightly abraded. Male with whole head black from nazal tufts back in a line below eye & evidently upper half of auriculars, a touch of white on anterior, lower corner of eyelid. Tail white on outer tail feathers 30 mm. on outer web, 21 on inner; second for 30 on outer.web 17 on inner; third 17 on both webs but comtinuing on outer as a narrow edging nearly to base; 4th with a small terminal spot (2 mm) on outer web only. Shafts whitish next to white areas. 9 with head pattern as in d though gray of crowngp gredy of head definitely darker than back. A dusky post-ocular area or rather an i11 defined streak, extending back to posterior edge of auriculars & including upper half of auriculars. Examined by me at Berlin Sept. 2, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem , atelvotrae’ | os . ae ‘ . Psilorhinus morgéo morio (Wagler) Pica morio Wagler Type (& cotype) No. 1527. Collection - Berlin. Wing 211.0, tail 225.0, culmen from nostril 30.3, depth at nostril L7-l, tarsus 54.3, middle toe minus claw 33.7. Deppe. L6écality Xalapa. C. torio N. Pica morio Wagler* Xalapa 1527 Graf ve Sack [é red type tag of Stresemam.} Deppe. Mounted bird in good condition. Plumage showing only very slight abrasion. This is the individual. from which Wagler's first and main description was taken. It is the only individual in the collection — with yellow bill and feet. It is not a young bird as stated by Ridgway (299 footnote) but fully adult and certainly a male by eens "Foemina (an potius avis junior?)" is, of course another species (mexicanus). It is 1524 Berlin & matches des. exactly. (Valle Real) The "mas juve" is an example of the pale, northern raceJ!! It is No. 1525. Collection - Berlin, Wing 207.0, tail 196, culmen from nostril 31.4, depth at nostril 17.4, tarsus 52.0, middle toe minus claw 31.4, Deppe. Locality - Valle Real. Bail) ‘and feet are black as in the original description above "types" examined by Berlin August 25, 1933. Ae JeVan Rossem a i { fu it ‘ eo ity eS . We ae oe 2 tM be: te rh ea i aa * iD i ee AGRE 20H | 9 " > W'S oh VE as on Lire ; lenges 0 Se M trae 4 ded ae whet Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata (Bonaparte) Cardinalis sinuata Bonaparte Type Noo 55012.19.54. Collection B.M. Wing 94.0, tail 101.0, exp. culmen 16.0, depth at base 14.0 tarsus 25.0, middle toe. minus claw 16.7. Locality nWe Mexico", Three tags -— none original - oldest 50120196 54 & on reverse Ne Mexico Type Cardinalis sinuatus No 3 next oldest No type. BELG. Mus. Reg. Dis leek GS oDee Pyrrhuloxia sinuata (Bp) W. Mexico. Pres. by Zool. Soc. red type tag with citation & the note Purchased at the sale of the Zoological Society. Skin, evidently once mounted, in poor condition with most of feathers of rump & upper tail coverts gone. Plumage fresh or only slightly abraded. This bird is the "Texas" race. It matches exactly a series of males from San Diego, Duval Co., ‘Texas save that it is slightly olive from age. It has nothing to do with Arizona race =— series here Yor comparison. ? aL Examined and compared at London Sept. 7, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem Pi aaa her “sary fice Scien s * h . cee 3 volt 0 sped. mi 4 5 yo. aoa ‘asec ‘soe ofhbin: Get? svetee Sos seal sah wv icisood: ve oho — Lieto lamer’ =) 0s Seki : ee eet ee LAC Leakek es. Sara SR adiiuriee Olio te.) wiv? odiktell’ +7, 2 weaet Di ddl OS 280965 es Y qd eotiod cya Breet aio bie ponies tac wt. ry “#.: es afou sie 3 HOifailoc Ml LY =it Be DOT mal gon’ Teotacioss ei “ier = lee ty. ig beeen ¥ aa? | gr0y fe? > Al one: 1 hat ing th seen “Id aeliteas Bb yietexd ae Pr sg « ons Fe etl), 259.3 Ppt 20.598 .eau avr .aqy on n aCe? ; : pes Jill - MTG LY hd Regs - ys , git = ~ #) best Ti So guir: 36 (0% eon? ry Mes Pe ou hdtv phage eferyase bate 4 mn Nae gael” Sei a4 eq? gieajanod gy autke.g Bienes Re welt of ose |. cae rls, hoki oe tus AIOSEMA, tin ob ot. Biagio aad, ih Rgds Os LS INS hie ae lilt) ana 9 re } Le mais Yr eH) «a? siesta eae ee ep ree ieee nae Fy Se Atta te Nie ma bteat loo Vibe wl LES eee f000 12. 4H 4S) aiamicy sla Lary: ie 2003 Ys 3iss a cae le fy i anew) te peery ou wha ak Mad aint : y Pi 1 + oul } 1 at } tf ra r te tyrone oe gh iui in 0 : fia Aes a % ‘eo ae way ‘ a ' 4 , ot 2 ba ’ S : i! ad j ? 4 é i q y! bs - : - ier dot ey ' ia \ 1 glib dl Vl aes 7 Pak i \ . Pa 2 " oe ’ i. ‘ J 4 BS iu Z > Dvr at, i .. 1 hic eh ‘ : Vi My aie nr a ie 65 i i 7s j [eno Pr § . A cca Va & P ran ted bp al in Sa iy OA a dna ‘ . y A ' ra) hae tA j 7 ¥ i 1) ar wat \ = 5 : > | - reas ul. | ir ie 2 = el RAL » ev edly —_— i r j 1) aa i a © 4 t air i ; I it b ty 2 Lay if ‘ TSG ae - ie 7 i i = - ey, { i = ~ , i, Pa : Ai ” . ri . en ee Tapera excellens (Sclater) Diplopterus excellens Sclater, P.Z.S. 1857, Pe 229. No. 89. 90276330" Collection BeM. Wing zy tail 170, culmen base 22.4, depth at nostril 8.8, tarsus 33.0, middle toe minus claw 27.0, Verreaux Locality - "Mexico". A post juvenile in complete first plumage save for half a dozen old, spotted, juvenal feathers in crest. Sex not indicated but probably a male. It is definitely of the Central American type of coloration and is identical with a series from Guatemala, Salvador and Nicaragua. June 28, 1938. Remarks. 5 from Tabasco (4) and Vera Cruz (1) are darker above and with margins more reddish (less clay buff); under tail coverts slightly darker; throat darker. ; A. Je. Van Rossem Thraupis abbas Lichtenstein Tanagra abbas Lichtenstein Types No. 5710. Collection - Berlin. Wing 99.0, tail 68.0, exp. culmen 12.9, depth 9.0, tarsus 20.5, middle toe minus claw 15.3. Deppe. Locality - Xalapa e T. Abbas N Mas -+ Stresemann's red type tag Xalapa 5710 Deppe No. 5711. Collection - Berlin. Wing 95.5, tail 71.0, exp. culmen 13.1, depth 9.0, tarsus 21.8, middle toe minus claw 15.7, Deppe. Locality | Xalapa. T. Abbas N. Fem. Xalapa 5711 Deppe. Mounted birds in good condition. Presumably correctly sexed. Plumage of d fresh, of 9 much abraded. Examined August 26, 1933. Remark s. These types have very little blue on chest as compared with southern birds. must recognize 2 races. Kh. des Van Rossen If constant Tiaris bicolor adoxa (Gosse) Spermophila adoxa Gosse TYPE ? 8146. Brussels. Wing 52, tail 41, exp. culmen 8.1, depth at base 6.8, tarsus 15.1, middle toe minus clawll.4 "9" Aug. 9, 1845. Jamaica (Grand Vale). Mounted bird in fair state of preservation, plumage rather worn and definitely juvenile plumage, primaries of left wing missing as though wing had been shot off at wrist joint. Once in the DuBus collection. Color definitely browner both above and on sides than in adults but otherwise there is nothing to dis- tinguish this from female bicolor. This is entered in Dubois catalogue as the type of adoxa. There was also another specimen in the DuBus collection bearing Gosses label "sp. adoxa?" but although the bird has been destroyed the old ticket is preserved and pasted to the register along with the ticket for 8146 which is by Gosse himself accord- ing to DuBus notation on the back. Umber belly Quit Spermophila adoxa. Since Gosse records having taken but one specimen this must be the type. However Hellmayr says the type in the BoM. J! Determine which. Brussels, July 18,1939. Gosse's measurements accord with my own. Considering the fact that his measurements for "bicolor" and Nadoxa" are almost identical it is difficult to understand why the name was misapplied to the smaller Olivacea. The name adoxa, of course, has many years priority over marchii Baird. A. Je Van Rossem a ‘ Tityra Tityra albitorques DuBus TYPE 7556. Brussels. Wing 105, tail 66, exp. culmen 20.8, depth at base9.7, tarsus 18.4, middle toe minus claw 14.2, width at nostrils 11.7. "Pérou" Mounted bird - plumage fairly fresh (very ‘slight abrasion) an adult male by plumage. Black subterminal tail band 22 mm. on central tail feathers along the shaft; white collar around hind-neck not abruptly defined against light gray of back; underparts pure white with no gray tinge anywhere. Brussels, July 19, 1939. Ae Je Van Rossem aa 7s va itd! ane gay i gis BEL Bria, patil aL a ena bat hash wh Hr ; AN wh if cf Ve nee tp hh Ge ta af Mh M ‘y ; 4 on # coe Waa wre i uel ) ; any Bir | pli we vy Hie gph igual bate be oaniton | a! HOLES yh Cle FER kam: 4 ha wea vita e — ae gare Sieg. band dive: stoute Does hie a ‘Base eae Wile Qo ete ey” ee ba te ‘Tree he. Yl ‘MU, REAL wth hat a lal wy Bo RW ee aoe: wa nse Ohiry, road oa eee ah adabih | _ ‘uae we Toxostoma curvirostre Pomatorhinus turdinus Temminck Pil, Col. (oun live, pi. 441 Purported Type. No number. Leiden. Wing lle, tail 112, culmen 29.0, tarsus 38.0, middle toe minus claw 25.5. Although bearing an old label, "Pomatorhinus turdinus/ P. grivelé Temm. pl. col. 441 / Inde" and the more recent inscription "Type", this specimen would appear to have no standing even as a cotype. Both plate and description call for an individual with all rectrices save the center pair tipped with white — the above specimen has only the outer four pairs so marked. There are other discrepancies. (Incidentally the artist got his numbers mixed for the plate has 7 rectrices on one side, five on the other) Ex. at Leiden July 7, 1939. Ae J.Van Rossem vem dion. bives ey aig 1 ketinah get my rset omneee ade of pashnry’ wap. nuda 4 | ” ‘ben: Sheet oibes 4 huis Ps sa o. ard? (Nektar atk Tele oe Bute Mine a allel Went: WC bm 4 ed urea a ; i eh Wis Nt etiiia wits wd ase Said pid mevyniinsed teuodet, ‘ev tiga Mk). Sakae), oO? iq, is mat ators = oY, Baars oo PAS bE CN erlY WOR ome Ore wey” meet Or TRY VaGhle OR BVA OS TAse if fitw ieeiob np ‘me fi wl Ls? Gao br ate , ee: Saeed: Gi, “Stes od omer eoulstiogp, toe. im eat Me Sith: att Qin il btoors wods OAY - Ssiom. i sien Sai yao eg oad? bodied os etieg oe 7 ee Baede ay ie te een foo Jk itn etd el Cadieb ont) = Veit im git joble mas mi wooladses T bul etelq . @ Oo ¥ wees... Vel ceabiel ta uxt Maseo8 eV, aA . iy ¥ ® 1 - - ® "4 bd a i * is 4 J ay 7 i t i ‘ah NG iP fu f a co h F } vit tae i a aD Toxostoma curvirostre curvirostre (Swainson) Orpheus curvirostris Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 114.0, tail 113.0, culmen 30.6, no sex, tarsus 34.7, middle toe minus claw 24.5, Bullock. Locality Mexico. Orpheus curvirostris SWe Old Swainson's gag. Bullk. Mexico. New Cambridge tag of the on reverse is Type Swainson collection. See J. E, Law 8.3. Skin in fairly well preserved condition but much distorted and flattened. No stuffing other than a small string of cotton. Plumage only slightly abraded, though browner through age. Tail tipped white on all rectrices except two central pairs. Examined at Cambridge Sept. 21, 1933. Ae JeVan Rossem Toxostoma curvirostre curvirostre (Swainson) Turdus deflexus Lichtenstein Types No. 3656. Collection - Berlin. Wing 109.0, tail 109.0, culmen broken, no sex, tarsus 33.3, middle toe minus claw 22.3. Deppe. Locality Temascaltepe: No. 3655. Collection - Berlin. Wing 110.0, tail 110.0, culmen 30.1, no sex, tarsus 33.0, middle toe minus claw 23.4. Deppe. Locality Chico. = 3556 = 3555 Te idefiess. N Pomatorhinus turdinus Tem. Selected by Stresemann as Temascaltepec Deppe the type ie ee bees S Ns but this bird better an Pomatorhinus fits Lichtensteins turdin, Temm. short description Chico Deppe 4S Outer 4 pairs of rectrices tipped with white for LOS. 5 and-2) nm. respectively. Ground color of underparts pale grayish white, almost pure white, no buffy tinge anywhere on underparts. Examined August 27, 1933. A. Je Van Rossem : resins eon? we tthe ir 13), sis al va Md, SOR LE) sie OES Ol gee CHEGh: cay peck PUL | ) tat i te: @Oe t y Vt is Se a a ee es | _** the ‘ il SOL _900b8 vite tee! 60” veh MB LS Mie, Ce ad odes cil year Rist at oe itt al hdd otbat » % Bisa Ps ay et O24 we ete Siders: S , ye Teun +@ ery a OF : aye da" — Me os ae oy A cx " f A! dhe Aihel BAY heer helen Lien ee poe A Later 2 oy gee bob | shee erany ey ; Be RY, Tae we Naas ae gignehi tts rn Vea “el “4 a hi, So mse Hey ihe Wht ane beta oi rant rascath panna . i rat J - Trogon caligatus sallaei Bonaparte Trogon sallaei Bonaparte Type No. 1856-1022 2750 Collection - Paris. Mus. Wing 124, tail 128, culmen 16.3" 9, tarsus 13.2, middie toe minus claw 13.3. Sallé. Locality Mexique. *Mounted bird in fair condition though badly soot stained and belly faded to creamy white. On the bottom of the stand is written - "Mexique M. Sallé, 1856, no.1022, 2750 [= new cat.*] 9 Trogon caligatus Gould T. Salloei Bp. Type.". Ex. by me at Paris on July 24, 1933. This name has priority over braccatus of Cab.& H. The male has disappeared but the description applies better to the gartered trogon than to any other species in the locality. Bonaparte describes of course a young (first winter) male. A. JeVan Rossem | | | | ae Trogon puella Trogon jalopensis Du Bus TYPE 3235. Brussels. Ving 137, tail 145, base culmen 18.0, depth at nostril 10.5, tarsus -, middle toe minus claw 13.7. Ghiesbr. 1838 |= Mirador] Jalapa, Vera CruZe Mounted bird in good condition save that the red of the ventral plumage has turned through age & exposure to nearly pure white. This specimen is definitely, the original of Du Bus' plate and matches in all particulars. 6657 There is the other (Tepitongo [Sept. 1838 or '39] coll. by Galiotti). Specimen mentioned by DuBus as examined by him. However ‘it has no claims as a cotype — even though so con- sidered by Dubois in the register and on the svand,. Brussels, July 13, 1939. Ae J.Van Rossem om he Te ee ee ee ATT et Sea he 4G ey o " : we r : 7 ° t eel . ; ay jv. ve = aye Ul glergn Sah ger? u 7 i isn : Ua ; 4 Po ad a: ; vr : : iy GO L “a as telp is gag’ ; . be > : : “y eer ike) ted ue a5 Upsileden oh g Wye dee! Wee a ate of £ ae: Me ay 4 . i? sh P 4 hm 7 oh @ > ara) le, mo a ee : Bee e i nt ] {= 5 Be 34 - By ° Te ¥ 2 ye ae rid aa = ake Aa? “ ay o ve ree : ig : @) y ae py m a et oir ae ede | surivith © CM aeale COG Y TO Leskt) oye Ce NEA “ roe Se 7 r ayy , oo vl gare. ot yer * : bese . ey DIS HAC atin, PR OTe hell see) A Be adi Pheri etn Pabdae F ok yuri eye Bat agenElg Catia pa? Le. oly iL RSET toad: AA Oe Sp Lat gy hy GE, LO a AL ee ea i ; nn a Dee een ees ee! bu a eo oR OA PEAY : al an 5 «ff ned = fy eh gem) Cel ye Vet wat 8eé. Sion Oo a ‘ Se et wig Prt USS RO CIM "OG | wee |. (ete) Ged pact enema fe taki? os ony hat 6 aly tebe le: Gy Cad el ae , | bie aortdyes oS) Gl atedeti yo borebta” lege tig =v : co ‘ook ny Ci hie. Pry i Turdus assimilis assimilis Cabanis Turdus assimilis Cabanis Type No. 3518. Collection - Berlin. Wing 123.0, tail 102.5, culmen 18.4, "mas", tarsus 29.5, middle toe minus claw 20.2. Deppe. Locality Real Arriba. Turdus assimilis* mas. Cab. 1850. Real Arriba 3518 Deppe S. Mounted bird in good condition and fresh un- abraded plumage. Plumage, of course, reddened through post-mortem change and exposure to light. Color above very similar to fresh specimens of Turdus grayi grayi - 3 throat streaks dark brown and breast and flanks washed with buffy gray. Examined August 27, 1933 at Berlin. A. J.Van Rossem 4 i whew | nay Seem eal ie : hited Oy x Gu Mish iawn: + et kN. Wiehe a pibbie Ae i ie re . ‘ 1 ee qa pik. ETP When a», onus PRA hei GF EEicobd, wee! 96405 Waku nintie ond it chicane’ eaiven'y OED. wis «tet : ‘ — r ; A) an ; ve a ae oo Sock eid Se months tinge 4: ‘bee wiSrcoros boty of Wale Deen Cuawmiie potas Ta , RR, peecidys Aah Oe uA Ne PAs Lettie lao : aS ry dae GaMiiaey? Caevtof TALaao yiev. g¥ale 2aloo ita, Aes. Pek was Joonit ) ~ teen oe 1 ie ees d Cregeen ry aT bien SF LAGI oF EO YS a> PULEMBATA CATE ENSS Turdus gymnophthalmus Cabanis Co ~Typese No. 3501. Collection. Berlin - Wing 107.0, tail 83-5, culmen 18.0, "mas", tarsus 31.5, middle toe minus claw 19.5. Otto. Locality - Caracas. No. 3502. Collection - Berlin. Wing 117.0, tail 99.0, culmen 18.7, "mas", tarsus 31.5, middle toe minus claw 20.2, Delbriich. Locality - Cayenne. No. 3503. Collection - Berlin. Wing 110.0, tail 69.0, culmen 18.1, no sex, tarsus 31.7, middle toe minus claw ®.0. Locality - Laguaira (Venemela). urdus gymophthalms Cab. 1848 Laguaira 3503 Gr. von Sock Haeberlin S. 3503 "selected" by Stresemann as the type and so tagged. Mounted bird in good condition - plumage only slightly abraded. Examined by me on August 28, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem . ie . ‘ i ? u , } ; * i Ws nN ' ys . | ' ur ; wr Pla : i Tyrannus melancholicus satrapa (Cabanis & Heine) Laphyetes satrapa Cabanis & Heine No. 2329. Collection - Berlin. Wing 110.0, tail 90.0, exp. culmen 10.6, 22.5, width at nostrils, depth at nostril, 8.7 "fem", tarsus 20.8, middle toe minus claw14.2. Deppe. Bill from nostril, 19.0. Locality Xelapa [a female] No. 2330. Collection - Berlin. Wing 122.0, tail 102.0 expe culmen, 11.0, 21.4, width at nostrils, depth at nostrils, 8.8 "fem", tarsus 18.7, middle toe minus claw 13.4. Deppe. Bill. from nostril 17.0, Locality — Xalapa [an ad. d] No. 2331. Bollection - Berlin. Wing 110.0, tail 93.0, exp. culmen 11.4, 23.3, width at nostrils, depth at nostril 9.1 "mas", tarsus 21.3, middle toe minus claw 15.2, Deppe. Bill from nostril 18.8 Alvarado. | a female]. M. Satrapa N. Mas. [Fenm. ] Xalapa 2330 [29 & 31] Gr.v. Sack — Deppe. Mounted birds in fair condition, plumage only SLightly abraded. These are the three specimens which are the basis af Lichtenstein's MS. name of Tyrannus satrapa (see Nomencl. Aves. Mus. Beral. 1854, pe 16) and are therefore the types of satrapa since Cabanis and Heine based their haphyctes satrapa specifically on Lichtenstein's specimens and incihuded their own northern South American specimens under satrapa more or less provisionally. These are,conchii in color and large, heavy bill. The females are nearer chloronotus in wing & tail. The male is good conchii in all particulars. Mane aasem Specimens examined Aug. 29,1933. 3 Mw 4 _ sda} ‘Aited i ‘ , ‘ iy vs i f ak eA (im cries: Wt peat o j 7 i ) ® + i * uh , i : LI i i hoi é 4 t . i (e Lt A i 4 ( ‘ i ; } Ce | f mi Py i i} ri - 4 v \ y 4 ee Pr iV me viv 4 ‘on i A : 7 ma Loe 1 ] +e et a i ' ' ; by he j a ah a ; ra y f rh ; ; 7 oe * ’ ‘4 : d Ty sf eg y ! f ; ; : Pa F " i | rot { 5 | ‘ # 5 j { Fi y n f j ’ } £ i 5 | ‘ Mya i I bot = 1 i a series Sussman f } i i ‘ a f i i ; i : ' i, or] +e Bl Vy ’ ab in Ss = od ,! i j yas wate ; a ees in Ps ‘ sv » te. Ce 1 Fe in be ae es ow a . Air a i i 1 iy . ad ae i 5" OD, NE SP ARR WA Rat ‘ d : 1, an . "ie om a, OW, Ok a Oa BER te i a are oer wns Reh ole Vs Wud ys yr wee ae i Se Tyto alba furcata (Temminck) trix furcata Temminck TYPE No number. Leiden. Wing 330, tail 142, culmen from cere 24.0, tarsus —-, middle toe minus claw 40.3, "Cuba", Mounted bird in good state of preservation but poorly postured and for this reason tarsi cannot be measured properly. Plate (432) is much too uniformly yellow, - there being a good deal of gray and white in the mottled portions of the back & wings; tail from above creamy white with mottling in the form of broken bars across all rectrices but decreasing outwardly until only a bare t-.ace present on outer pair of rectrices.e Strix flammea americanna Cat. No. 5, fig. Ple col. 432 Voy. Péppig Cuba See also Schlegel, II, striges, p. 5, 1862, under "5". Ae J. Van Rossem Veniliornis oleaginus (Lichtenstein) Picus oleaginus Lichtenstein Types No. 10613. Collection - Berlin. Wing 104.5, tail 56.5, exp. culmen 23.8, [d ad.J, tarsus 18.5, middle toe minus claw 14.0. Deppe. Locality Popantla Vera Cruz]. No. 10614. Collection - Berlin. Wing 99.0, tail 5720, expe culmen 22.2, [2 ad], tarsus 18.5, middle toe minus claw12.8. Deppe.e Locality - Popantla [Vera Cruz]. No. 10615. Collection - Berlin. Wing 100.0, tail 52.0, exp. culmen 22.0, "mas. im." [92 ad], tarsus 18.5, middle toe minus claw 12.0. Deppe. Locality - Mexiko [ie-city of]. Mounted birds in fair condition - plumage relatively fresh. The outstanding feature is the whitish face, ear coverts and chin. Examined by me at Berlin September 2, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem ‘¢ oe neu? tase enasee nga i ay Rae ang ole uF oye patton eae: oH eee Ol. wert ay . ' ye bl pie i ‘i grea asl? peat = Mpieesoad Oh ods We sein wag alabiap = j @ “ bw a PW ‘ ” + OUND: B158V) ay asdo'y “agi Wit, hire» wehvoelion ~iAled i 4oY et ry" i a'® « fe T ry ¥ ee Shh 16 ; gfe - ‘ ep Sp LE she) wl Da Wy ae wl ¢ Ws Oe wkd WA eytite aos 2 Saale | ; «te Pri azey). Hae (Esc hi rf oE win i ie nt Cie nt: a war does Ln) papoat. ; om fig FT Re ob act Oued ‘antoo, «ae .Oehe: Wes, Chbe Chaka eos alphin .§ af aD tad ré a Q ae. f Ad ¥ To e| it Bae | Lipentie] bala wd ¥ LAGool an 7 Sat r~ magtintios wiat af abiid Botan . woaa ac SiaNSev sities sne eAT .daert vloviteled atilo. baa sitevos ta0 'esu't mate tw! pee ce eT TOE é MheteG Je pl Yo tents se wewwell seth H Vermivora superciliosa mexicana (Cabanis) Compsothlypis mexicana Cabanis Types No. 4443. Collection - Berlin. Wing 66.0, tail 49-0, culmen 11.1, "mas", tarsus 16.7, middle toe minus claw 9.7. Deppe. Locality - Real Arriba. ip Pach la] No. 4444- Collection - Berlin. Wing 59.0, tail 47.0, culmen 10.6, "fem.", tarsus 16.0, middle toe minus claw 9.8, Deppe. Locality - Real Arriba. Mounted birds in fair condition and in fresh (not later than late spring)plumage. They are in head and neck moult which probably places them as early spring. They are less brightly colored than three specimens from Guatemala = yellow paler & more restricted & breast patch nearly obsolete. Se mexicana N. Mas. Conirostrum superciliosum Harti. Real Arriba 4443 Deppe. other 2 tag ditto but 4444 “Examined by me August 26, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem + nN ibys wig 7 BAe whan 2 Wt RCE: arts 2 ay - . Par _ . ane 7 ite My a tia eet Boy “a were ibd ems et aren i ; ny i . ivy : cy y vb Ari ot oe ed i hey Wd setae | Sel Bd TI a A, GRE a ai ait uv eae) pe yh me a Deere tn i al li i ss th tt A sci ls a i AN a ll i tt a al i ta in nelle Vireo altiloquus altiloquus (Vieillot) Vireosylvia frenata DuBus TYPE 8213 Brussels Wing 78, tail 52, exp. culmen l4.-, depth at base 5.8, tarsus 19.1, middle toe minus claw 11.5. Ocafia, Colombia. Mounted bird in good cmdition, save that the extreme tip of the maxilla is missing and there are only two (outside) rectrices left to the right side of the tail. Not marked as to sex; apparently fully adult; by measurements a typical 9%. Although slightly faded, the coloration is that of the Jamaica race; sides of face and superciliary stripe with distinct buify suffusion; pileum brownish with lateral stripes obsolete. Brussels, July 28, 1939. Register gives this as the type 6213 Ocafia (Ne Grenade) - ach Linden Type du V. frenata, Dubus Extreme tip of maxilla missing. Ae J. Van Rossem Vireolanius melitophrys melitophrys Bonaparte Vireolanius melitophrys (Dubus?) TYPE No. 8212, Brussels. Wing 79, tail 70, exp. culmen 16.7, depth at base 7.7, tarsus 23.6, middle toe minus claw 13.5. Mounted bird in good condition. Evidently a 2, although not so marked. Plumage fresh = collected certainly not later than early winter. Differs from Ridgway's description of the 2 (p.225, pt. 3) as follows: hindneck between occiput and upper back distinctly paler than crown — almost ashy gray; back olive green, not grayish olive green; superciliary stripe dull orange yellow — not canary yellow; stripe on side of head blackish mouse gray with no shaft streaks of white; submalar streak broken and narrow (2 mm); chestnut breast band broken along sides, fading to pale olive brown & flanks. This is the only specimen of the species in the register, where entered as 6212, ‘iype, Mexique (7) Brussels, July 12, 1939. Plate 26 (no text) pictures this specimen dated 1850 Brit. lus. Copy Bonaparte cites pl. 26 as 1850 -however possibly never published. What is the date of plate 26 - Bonaparte's reference to this plate suggests Dubus as the authority. Dubois cites Dubus as authority. Ae Je Van Rossem i i ew a i ; 7 AS RE) ened Bh on: La OO, ' - : 7 a . : ; t y ‘ BRS oa: al eo OY heh oY) PN, wtlauneie 5250 oe pie Hiiish wot aloo kn Vette ota Ved Meee ea Meyed | eQats yj i 7 past to yo * ‘ieobig? tell liatos, foog Mio oer r agaae S Pi fyteles La esas Aru ‘ea ; s derdloneen: ome! had Me _ oie ehice sated wnlyd dar a (i ny ; ‘© pape i wy 7" th a ; - ae ; re aay Hh ag “4 ae yc teinyt ) 2 Olid i imioglSenb ayy eth sort eset Parts een; ot Pera tok reeees YW mwot ih ea7, a me TIA} te rs s~) 6 ote east fi hatte) Vicon re pie : 7 | wiai Eee ee ee i. (fs thaw or 3 pot! : te ee ha oe eee a, meres Sy LIes Cait 2a - Soy-eyoro: Likh vqcade. | 4 , Cibice Ot LOle, TAK, Ws Jaimeate Gaed to sbis nO. : Mavccai bea pote! Avetig te ovetin ve iw 36 enneads | rf i) es : é ane Cw oe” 3 mu e400 Jiniinante é , (O05, bs 7 ; 4 ; — ite dtean ied a eA sd \ ar evi Lt’ ade err : ; a 4 yp o> . ‘ A 7 ¥ ae } ¥ Seen res Ww? ike AeKL eC? wf LO OM wey) Vinay bad ae vi 7 ) Siig i- a _ é 7 ae me ‘ aa pein th ws o. Kt ; i i = — 7 : ; ; My ; att a et yl 4 Be Te abi es. ’ i en Z >, 2 base : m b-,, Ai , he ae * | age Fie he ne Suny, Gis fT, ORS dyer vi br ‘a i od Xie =i8 | ina > Che wa 4 ee | ae | BOT ES ¥ ea er a apis dceug..” bo Iu BHT WASEWTATLR 5% mais to-otes wldvwe Sarthe Pr Bho) eda Gd Be | Par ps oUyuwe Ase fq aide : | | porn utara $y ened euse Vireo pallens Salvin Types Vireo ochraceus Salvin No. 85.23.10. 108. Collection B. M., Spurius primary & wing 22.0, 56.0, tail 46.0, exp. culmen 12.2 do, tarsus 20. oe middle toe minus claw i Oy Salvin March Gi, 1863. Locality Realgjo, Nicaragua. No. 85.3-10.107. Collection B.M., Spurils primary & wing 21.7, 58.0, tail 47. 0, eXp. culmen 12. 35.0 tarsus 20.7, middle toe minus claw dae. Salvin, March 18, 1863. Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. The first of these birds is the olive-backed type the second the glive-green type with pale yellow underparts. Though both birds are cotypes the first listed fits the description better. If it ever be comes necessary to name one as the type then 108 is the one to designate. 3 No. &5.23.10.109. Collection B.M. Spurius primary & wing, 20.0, 56.0, tail 44.0, exp. culmen 11.6, 2, tarsus 19. ae middle toe minus claw 11.7, Salvin, January, 1863. Locality San Jose de Guat emala. ochraeeus With original tag, marked as type by Salvin. Noe Obe sel O. dl, Collection B.M., Spurius primary & wing 16.5, 53.0, tail 44.0, exp. culmen 11.7, 9 tarsus 19.7, middle toe minus claw 11.5. Salvin, April, 1862. Sakluk, Peten, Yucatan. with original tag, marked as type semiflavus by Salvin haere Ae J.eVan Rossem Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonaparte) Psarocolius perspicillatus Wagler Types No. 7434. Collection - Berlin. Wing 140.0, tail 98.0, exp. & base. culmen 22.7, 24.1, depth 13.0, tarsus 33.8, middle toe minus claw 24.0, Deppe. o adult. Locality - Mexico. [ City of] Male adult in slightly abraded plumage. Mounted bard in fair condition. No. 7435. Collection - Berlin. Wing 133.5, tail 91.5, exp. & base culmen 20.6, 22.7, depth 12.5, tarsus 33.4, middle toe minus claw 24.4. Deppe. g6 im. Locality— Mexico. Young male, mounted and in fair condition. Plumage abraded put not excessively so. Evidently taken in late winter or early spring. Label on each stand Agelaus [sic] longipes A mas. Sw. 1827 Mexiko. 7434 Gr. v. Sack. Deppe S. Second stand labeled exactly as above but mas.e im. Note: -— The third bird, which Wagler calls [p. 753]}" Agelaius longipes Swains" "AYis hornot". is a female, mounted & in fair condition No. 7436. Types examined by me Aug. 24,1933. Ae JeVan Rossem W io? : 4 P a ey : ’ ; m oe Fh ws : 2. et ee ul 7 an 1 i i ‘ é wifi ¢ L ] i it bw ft “ - & Awe hit ae | p few) ge ‘ne BY rt T ; . at a 4 — ; * ee eer = eT! Tne ore eT Se WAN GHOUrs: cas Xanthoura guatimalensis Bonaparte Type No number. Collection - Leiden. Wing 120.0, tail 146.0, exp. culmen 27.0, depth at nostrils 11.1, tarsus 38.5, middle toe minus claw 22.0, no sex, Locality— "Guatimala". Cyanocorax (written in above is "type wiatimetensiee yucas ad." Cate 4 9 Mr. v. Landsbergen dibe de > Mounted bird in good condition, plumage only very slightly abraded, This is some race of yucas, there is not sufficient material available here to determine which. Nazal tufts erect and highly developed, 12-1/2 mn. long. Back & upper tail coverts bluish green, the latter greenish blue. Forehead rather narrowly white (about 6 mm.) to a line with posterior comers of eyes. Under part, including under tail coverts en- tirely pure yellow with no tinge of green anywhere. Examined at Leiden Sept. 6, 1933. Remarks. See Sclater, Ibis, 1879, p.88 & Schlegel, Mus. Pays Bas. No. 32, livr. 9, 1867, 53. There are many specimens x Landsbergen in the Leiden Mus. ‘which were collected at Caracas, Venezuela. Cynreeoy roce ee pe Ae J.Van Rossem \ / a an ek “sh ; ; LF pe had ll > pa a 2 iin A ah a nh Xanthoura ypcas TYPE Xanthura yycas Var. Caeruleocephala Dubois Bull. Acad. Roy de Belg. go cer. WOWIIT, No. 9, STL 5 Pe 5255 Brussels. Wing llu, tail 127, exp. culmen 21.1, from nostril 16.5, depth at nostril 9.9, tarsus 36.0, middle toe minus claw 19.1, tail graduated 3005, Nazal tufts only 7 mm. long. Xanthura yucas Var. Caeruleocephala Dubois Type Hab. Venezuela, Trinidad Loc. Caracas (Venezuela) 5255 (no. written by Dubois) Mounted bird in good condition; bright yellow eyes; a one year old to judge from narrow rectrices; ventral plumage faded (post mortem) to creamy white on sides and to pale cream color on median under- parts; sex not indicated. Crown entirely blue - nazal tufts very short approach- ing Central Americm races in this respect; color of head and occiput changing on nape to glaucous green on back and rump; longer upper tail coverts distinctly more bluish terminaliy; outer webs of remiges only slightly bluer than back. Brussels, July 11, 1939. Right side bleached more ventrally and more bluish less greenish) dorsally! Given as the type in the old Yubois register. Obtained from an unknown (unstated) source. Ae Je Van Rossem Bact | | Tre "i j ' @ + . ¥ a ; ! t baw if 1 + PY = 4, ifn ty ™ L Pe 888 oe . s + . - rm < + | Xiphorhynchus flavigaster Dryocopus eburneirostris Lesson Type No. 1847-1808. Collection - Paris. Wing 107, tail 78, culmen 39.3, tarsus 23.0, middle toe minus claw 19.5. Locality Realejo, Nicaragua. Type of Dryocopus eburmeirostris Lesson. Mounted bird in fair condition but in badly abraded (late simmer) plumage. Sex not indicated. The bottom of the stand is crowded with writing, some of it illegible and some crossed out. However, there is the following. "Type de Dryocopus eburneisostris Less. Par M. Lesson de Real€jo. Cat. Gen. 1847-1808 type de la fig 52 de M. Desmurs J)", Examined by me at Paris Aug. 1, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem Xiphorhynchus flavigaster flavigaster Swainson Xiphorhynchus flavigaster Swainson Type No.number. Collection- Cambridge. Wing 110, tail 92. Base culmen #hostrils 47.0,%37.5. Depth -- tarsus 22.5, middle toe minus claw 18.5. locality - "Mexico." Adult in fresh fall plumage. Typical Bullock skin probably a female. Tag reads Xiphorhynchus s flavigaster Sw. Bullock Mexico TRis is typical - or rather supertypical-of the race now known as megarhynchus Nelson, both in color and in the extraordinary bill! July 4, 1938. Ae Je Van Rossem Zamelodia melanocephala melanocephala (Swainson) Fringilla epopoea Lichtenstein Type & Cotypes No. 6406. Collection - Berlin. Wing 105.0, tail 81.5, exp. culmen 18.7, depth 15.3, tarsus 24.1, middle toe minus claw 16.5, Deppe. Locality Xalapa. F. epopoea Ne Alrs Streseman's red type tag. Mas. Xalapa 6406. Greo°v. Sack Deppe. Mounted bird in good condition, plumage slightly abraded, hence taken in early spring or late winter. A fully adult male with head solidly black. Typical example of the large race. No. 6409. Collection — Berlin. 94-0, tail 77.0, exp. culmen 16.7, depth 13.0, tarsus 22.2, middle toe minus claw 16.0. Deppe. Temascaltepek. Cotype probably. A typical adult male maculata, taken by state of plumage, in midwinter. No. 6407. Collection - Berlin. Wing 105.0, tail 7420, exp. culmen 18.6, depth 15.2, tarsus 24.0, middle toe minus claw 17.1. Deppe. Locality - Xalapa. : Ap Cotype probably-marked "mas juv.", but mz a female, probably first winter. Bill typical of large race. Stresemann has ‘selected 6406 as the type. Examined by me at Berlin on August 26, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem ; ‘ 7 ih it 2 f , ; ; r pars D rai iy i my eS ee ee he te tl ha ae arma y ‘a hes bs eres is aia ie Eas ploy ome De ny meres - : am 4 Prem vial ig a abe sees naan, & ast srs Be peataey @ i * c Atle af . wi: J Rice) | Meet Tees Sie iv tein —s 0 els OM ; mda pie Veen. 4 a ML eS OER | eae pay ¢ NG, a a _* on ae ee) at ys Sey agg an bite ; ee — - q | af ie. CRA = ug ‘ ; ft) L ; ; ; ; ; Panis 9. : a {i aadae 4 aa & . a 7 = a4 witha eee} 7 | ae, or pution. | ; ' — , ' wy - fn ‘a fewwins Ste. 15 Ala ‘ CoA. OO GST ~DShsiay | a “ oe M SURG aol salts ‘BYVG fe FUG 7 . ae 5s die | hn 5 : a hee hae, « ners cet % a ao s vhPe Sgt hil a Fath : “4 : dre y aie ca F 7 % _ j BA... - —_ + i my eat h Bd. a ; # “et wei one ae i “4 beudteas) WLS. eh - fan v4 v m gil a cage Pa t — _ } : MiSt,. it gives CRS; 16h MS @ 4b ole rice A hy Kae | Se Pas M os Shi ‘Jats. wel” nonin sod’ 9 > 4 « b wait? : i ; ‘ f ee Po - ed R ety 7 €. a? Be bles. PLL): nfm 0 AL L Ly oO ‘gal Le BOTs KEY Oo a : f 7 : a ee a eee Ae Green daw Ay hb + : a free ee 199 a. a = ‘ ee ee ae a. a : on), is ; ; : cali s Srmgetad i CAG ated SON 4M SOG bom “ut eeu Ve Ay) fe) a ‘ool 3 , ae | Digetds Yr ” Sud = Veale Par dgthas EPS, Perks ai: & 7 oh) ot a ew we 85O, see. 1.1.70 wale adrratd aot = hala iat, a. A, int bene . Wit, sat” Bay nae A, iOgUuvhg ero epee a gt. hey, Ere, aye ts a ry Ww tert. qicadiory lane ~ es" _ ee (sa Rens 1 Ay n 'e wd ‘Eni oo La ve ee ‘ = f No No Zamelodia melanocephala melanocephala (Swainson) [Fringilla xanthomaschalis Wagler Types] number. Collection - liinich. Wing 102, tail 80, culmen 16.6, depth at base 14.7, tarsus 21.0, middle toe minus claw 17.5. Keerl [ad. d] Locality "Mexico". Cotype number. Collection - litinich. Wing 103, tail 78, culmen 17.2, depth at base 15.0, tarsus --, middle toe minus claw --. Keerl [ad. d] Locality - "Mexico", Cotype Skins in fair condition remade from mounts:evidently. Examined by me at MUuncih on August 19, 1933. Ae J-Van Rossem Zamelodia melanocephala melanocephala (Swainson) Guiraca melanocephala Swainson Type No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 106.0, tail 82.0, culmen 18.2, depth 15.0, tarsus 24.3, middle toe minus claw 16.4. Bullock. Locality - Mexico. Original Bullock slip Found in the neighborhood of Temasealtepec. Feeds on Maise Eye brovn Old Swainson tag Guiraca melanocephala Bullock Mexico. New Cambridge tag of Swainson Coll. On reverse Type Guiraca melanocephala . Philos. Mag. nos. 1, 1827,p. 438. Kinnear’s handwriting. 12.3 Skin, well preserved but no stuffing in body and flattened. Plumage that of a winter or early spring bird. An adult male. Examined at Cambridge Sept. 21,1933. A. J.Van Rossem ¥ Zarhynchus wagleri wagleri (Gray) Cacicus wagleri Gray Type No. 43.6.13.16. Bollection - B.M. Wing 214.0, tail 130.0, width shield, exp. culmen, 19.1, 62.6, depth 26.2, tarsus 39.0, middle toe minus claw 28.1. Locality - Coban. One tag Brite Mus. Reg. 43.6.13610« Eucorystes wagleri Coban. This and a female also from Coban are the only two specimens antedating the date appearing at the end of the three pages 342-43-44 dealing with the Icterinae, namely October, 1844 (not "1847" as quoted in Ridgway). ‘furthermore in details of structure and in size and shape of bill this specimen is in excellent accord with the plate. Formerly a mounted bird it has been remade into a skin in excellent condition, and in fresh or only very slightly anabraded plumage. It is typical of the Guatemalan -ie- northern race. The southern race must be re-named. Examined at London Sept. 11, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem a! ~~ i Zonotrichia gambelii gambelii (Nuttal1) Spizella maxima Bonaparte TYPE 7329e Bruss. Wing 81, tail 77, exp. culmen 10.6, depth, gaping, tarsus 22.3, middle toe minus claw 15.1 "9" "Mexique",. Mounted bird in good ccndition; bird of the year in slightly worn (probably midwinter) plumage. The old "type" tag is posted on the register — “~-—# written so far as I can determine, by Bonaparte himself. Spizella maxima Bp. Notes ornith., Pag. 21 TYPE This is definitely gambeli - not leucophrys as usually cited. Brussels July 17, 1939. Ae Je Van Rossem ii th Lh i al Ramphocelus chrysopterus Boucard No number. Collection Boucard. Wing 80, tail 71, exp. culmen 15.7, tarsus 22.8, middle toe minus claw 16.2. Date 1891. Locality "Panama". ; Type of the "species" with tag reading as follows Ramphocelus chrysopterus n. sp. Boucard Panama. type of species H. Bird [ie - Hummingbird] p 1891. There is no yellow on. the wings anywhere? This is simply R. icterongtus with which.it agrees in size and all particulars save that the rump and back are orange yellow, deepening to orange on the upper tail coverts. All the orange & yellow feathers are snowy white at their bases. Type examined by me at Paris, July 27, 1933. Remarks: Griscom claims this is a hybrid flammigerus x icteronotus while Hellmayr, 1934, believes it to be a color phase or mutant of passerinii' Ae Je Van Rossem Salpinctes obsoletus obsoletus (Say) Troglodytes latisfasciatus Lichtenstein Type No. 4690. Collection - Berlin. Wing 68.0, tail 49.0, culmen 14.0, "fem", tarsus 20.7, middle toe minus claw 13.6. Deppe. Locality Mexico [ie-city of] T. obsoletus Say fem. T. latifasciatus N. antea Mexico 4690 Deppe. Mounted bird in fair condition - a juvenile. mach faded and reddened by exposure to light. The other type has disappeared. Examined by me August 26, 1933. This name, ofcourse supplants notius Ridgway. Ae J.Van Rossem Saltator atriceps atriceps (Lesson) m as le eet © Tanagra enatho Lichtenstein Types No. 6267. Collection - Berlin. Wing 122.5, tail 118.5, exp. culmen 23.2, depth 15.4, tarsus 29.5, middle toe minus claw 20.8. Deppe. Locality - Pepantla [Vera Cruz] | T. atriceps Lesson Mas. T. Stresemann's tag red. Papantla 6267 Deppe. Mounted bird in good condition. An adult in slightly abraded plumage. Face & auriculars gray with narrow blackish tips. Heavy jugal marks & throat band. Posterior part of throat patch next to the black band isbuffy brown. Examined at Berlin Aug. 26, 1933. _No. 6266. Collection:— Berlin. Wing 118, tail 116.5, exp, culmen 23.2, depth 14.9, tarsus 29.3, middle toe minus claw 21.0. Deppe. Locality Fepantla [Vera Cruz]. Same label save for number. Same remarks, including brown on throat next to black band. Cotypes - though Stresemann selects 6267 as the type. Ae Je Van Rossem Saltator coerulescens plumbeus Bonaparte Saltator plumbeus Bonaparte TYPE 7990 Brussels. Wing 99.5, tail 92, exp. culmen 21.0, depth at base 14.1, tarsus 27.0, middle toe minus claw 18.8, "9". Mounted bird in good condition; plumage fresh and showing little if any abrasion, no sex indicated, This is the Santa Marta race and the name as currently applied is correct. It came to the Brussels Museum from Verreaux Freres and bears their well known green ticket which reads as follows Saltator plumbeus Bp. Comp. av. 2: édit. (type de Bp) Sainte Marthe g It was originally in the Dupsus collection and probably was sent to him by Verreaux. Brussels, July 20, 1939. A, Je Van Rossen Saltator grandis grandis (Lichtenstein) Tanagra grandis Lichtenstein Types No. 6284. Collection - Berlin. Wing 99.0, tail 104.0, exp. culmen 18.2, depth 12.3, tarsus 26.0, middle toe minus claw 17.9.Deppe. Locality Xalapa. Saltator grandis Licht. sp. Tanagra muta Licht. ant. fem ad. Kaltapa 6284 Gr. von Sack Deppe. No. 6285. Collection - Berlin. Wing 100.0, tail 105.5, exp. culmen 20.3, depth 13.9, tarsus 29.4, middle toe minus claw19.0. Deppe. Locality Lagunas. Saltator grandis Licht. Sp. Tanagra grandis Licht. Saltator igterophrys Lafr. mas juv. Lagunas 6285 Deppe. Mounted birds in good condition, though 6284 is in abraded plumage. Both specimens show racialcolor characters - olive rump of adult, long superciliary Stripe, etc. Stresemamn selects the green juvenal as the type — but they are cotypes of course. Ae J. Van Rossem ii it cl a Sayornis nigricans nigricans Swainson Muscicapa atrata Lichtenstein Types No. 2409. Collection - Berlin. Wing 88.5, tail 80, culmen 13.3, "mas", tarsus 17.0, middle toe minus claw 10.7. Deppe.e Locality - Oaxaca. No. 2410. Collection - Berlin. Wing 91.0, tail 7520, culmen 14.0, "mas", tarsus 18.3, niddle toe minus claw Ti. 5. Deppe. Locality — Mexico. La4y] Mounted skins in good condition, 2409 of the 'nigricans" type with streaked under tail coverts. Plumage fresh and practically unabraded. 2410 of the Q@quatica type, white much restricted and under tail coverts heavily clouded with dusky. Plumage much abraded - taken in late summer or early fall before the moult. Stresemann has arbitrarily labelled 2410 as the type, though they are undoubtedly cotypes. Examined August 28, 1933. Muscicapa atrata N. Mas. Oaxaca 2409 Deppe. Ae J.Van Rossem Sayonris nigricans nigricans (Swainson) Tyrannula nigricans Swainson (Cotypes) No number. Collection - Cambridge. Wing 85, tail 70, culmen 15, tarsus 16.8, middle toe minus claw 10.0. Bullock . Locality "Table land of Mexico". The above tagged Ragged summer plumage Tyrannula nigricans Sw. Bullk. Mexico. No number. Wing 86, tail 76, culmen 15, tarsus 16.2, middle toe minus claw 10. A typical Bullock skin, though not tagged as such. Fresh fall-plumage. Both birds have dusky -streaked under tail covertse Ae J.Van Rossem Setophaga picta guatemalas Subsp. a Setophaga guatemalae Sharpe TYPE 80.12.31.42. British Museum. Wing 68, tail 60, culmen 10.0, tarsus 17.0, middle toe minus claw 12.6, Bridges. Guatemala. There is no original tag - simply the Eyton tag (1960) with the British Museum number on the reverse. It is this specimen the tail of which is figured in vol. 10 in the original description and is automatically the type, even though none is named directly. Note that Sharpe says that the Sabin-Godman material confirms his diagnosis. An adult in perfect late fall plumage, the secondaries with no pale edging whatever, plumage very dark and rich, exactly like two specimens from Tactic and Santa Barbara in Vera Paz. Skin in good condition. British iiuseum Auge 17, 1939. The B. M. western Cordillera material is much more orange ventrally than the Vera Paz specimens. The type locality is undoubtedly Vera Paz but will have to be determined by investigation of Bridge's work. Ae J. Van Rossem Sicelis flaveola [Sicalis] aureipectus Bonaparte TYPE ?? 7370d Brussels. Wing 67, tail 44, exp. culmen 10.5, depth at base 7.9, tarsus 19.5, middle toe minus claw 13.0 "9". Colombia. Mounted bird in fair condition, but lacking most of under tail coverts; rather worn immature plumage with a few new yellow feathers appearing on crown, flanks and throat; maxilla pale brown, mandible distinctly paler. This is claimed as the type by Dubois, both in his hand written register and on the printed label. It was part of the DuBus collection and its very probable history is that it came to DuBus from Verreaux, for I find numbers close by, both before and following 7370d, which definitely did come from that source. On the other hand Hellmayr (p. 322) has personally examined another "type" from Verreaux at Turind/ What is most likely is that Verreaux, following the custom of the day, marked both birds as types. It is likely that two forms are involved here} Brussels, July 20, 1939. Comparison of Bonaparte's description with the present lived seems to match perfectly and to fit better than Hellmayr's bird. The underparts are white — not buffy white as Hellmayr's account reads. Ae Je Van Rossem Spinus notatus notatus (Du Bus) Carduelis notata Du Bus TYPE Ess. Orns, ple 37 and name [no text], 1851. 7375 Brussels. Wing 68.5, tail 42.5, culmen 11.4, 6.7, tarsus -, middle toe minus claw 9.8, "od" Carson & Villart "Mexique" [probably liirador]. 7375b. Brussels. Wing 65.0, tail 36.0, culmen 11.3, 7.2, tarsus 13.6, middle toe minus claw 9.9 "cu ‘[really a 9] '"Mexique". 7375b. Ving 64.5, tail 44.0, culmen 11.3, 6.2, tarsus 12.6, middle toe minus claw 9.3, ugu, "Vexique". 13757 Wane 71.0, tail 41.0, culmen 11.8, 7.3, tarsus, 13.7, middle toe minus claw 10.8, "d". "Mexique"™ Dubois has registered the first as the type, a cir- cumstance which would be fairly conclusive were it note for the fact that this specimen was not re— ceived at the mseum until 1855 four years after the species was described! It came from Carron & Villardt who sent many Mexican birds to the Brussels Museum in 1855 and subsequent years, all of which were seemingly collected at or near Mirador. The other three are of the Du Bus Collection and surely one of these would be the type. Only on examination of the plate (if such exists) can determine which. At any rate all four are typical of the race of south- eastern Mexico, to which the name is currently applied. Brussels, July 14, 1939. There is a published plate, - No. 37 in both the Tweedale and Zoological Society copies, dated "1851". There is no text but the plate is valid or of this date because properly named. 7375 b [designated as b’] is the speci- men figured. From whom obtained by Du Bus — or when - there is no indication. Most probably, however, Gallioti or Ghiesbrecht at Miradar in 1838 or 1837. Brit. ius. Auge 15, 1939. fey Vananoseen yi a, ’ eee =) Ree WAY 9c atta em ae rere "7 rey i * aud ie steibe eafonty i's a i ie a nd cated cont SAG ONG aka, og LEM yr ae Cte OW eae a aa , gh ace) Lh ots) Pee a SD er ee et 4 ; add aL XG ay — q\ A atieP th) . Wagal Gren ae My th, 2" a, ia f 4 ua ’ 7 = , { - i ; i ma voy Gabta.* SOIL (" wD hal OTM ad 10a ae ' ofa m6 ‘hed q » 2 ) = ay { 7sie ‘ ae eb © i oe -) a vate Aas y © LeSA TT se es , a ae * **? pti ete! a ow oan ha-e - 4 es vey 7) mist le mn tS oF oa | eo", seer MALS POU BOF GLO .OsSs SG" taper 2 cape DY 7 " , hepa) y —_ od 0 EGE gah Oh Sekt otf} “Depedely 4 wee mses uar-o |. % a2 & Binoy asitw eoaslangs povet Pale nat ata, peSd- JOhs aba &At 9%) ogo . Bees ts etne® erat eral Cis noc odd ga bovis. OY a ee wiervtsa so7)-6c~0 Sloe S hee se hosce; e Sr ay RAV Coe ae) PIR as te Sbis diy ™ tis eeTSey cleup eee ite 4 rate iis CUES ay jis Tot Wa te Detoetoo Yinciiese, otew flowEieS wag wh wit, to ots. eosdd die SUN AGG Mi et Secon okdahe "Le erm,’ : loduiccs. deyg Tk Merely etd 90: use ip. ‘9D at Sep feo) wie eet La Slat wa oh | anereua 2, PAs me etity Oo oonteslt rregepes i res i“ NAM, , beh ey agaist ‘a eet Hoo ahME ls pials badebioq’' ‘ask otient, pas a ty, Pet paige vie L tite LankyoLaos brs, ae ~iNa so "a behey a Fetes) hell aaah some ure | ie, ce am Sevedel wos} o WY: be one ts one od ‘i heute-peodiel wed we: es a Spinus pinus macropterus "Du Bus" (Bonaparte) Chrysomitris macropterus Se ee, Esquire Orn. plate 23, dated 1849. 7388e. Brussels. Ving 75, tail 46, exp. culmen 10.7, depth at base 6.8, tarsus 14.0, middle toe minus claw 11.0. Mexique. Mounted bird in good cmdition except that the right tarsus is missing and replaced by wire. Apparently fully adult. Sex not indicated. This bird is darker brovn above than "macropterus" of western and northwestern Mexico. Streaking below almost obsolete save on flanks and under tail coverts. Yellow on tail for slightly more than basal 3/5 laterally - 2/3 on next to middle pair of rectrices. This is the only Dubus specimen from Mexico in Brussels according to Dubois register. There is no in- dication of locality other than that above i.e. "Mexique", This individual has also been determined as the type by Meise and bears his tag to that effect. Brussels, July 12, 1939 No text — plate published 1849 - Brit. Mus. Copy London, Aug. ll, 1939. Hellmayr, 1938, p. 271 says pl. 23 never published - however perhaps the text was. Check on dates of authorship here!! Bonaparte's re- ference is to "pl.23" — of DuBus and this suggests DuBus as prior. However, see Ridg. remarks to Bonaparte reference p. 100-pt. 1l- Dates must be very close here. 12 - Hanson Laguna & San Pedro Martir in B.S. Coll. Grayer than macropterus - w ds 71-74. AV@vJis Van Rossem + . \ by yt ome T cer 77 hie ioe ; : a _ ; {os 48 rim ery P| ” me Ge fx Aves 4 © > ha - Poe a) ei ona ii Spinus psaltria psaltria Say Chrysomitris melanoxantha Lichtenstein Types No. 6530. Collection - Berlin. Wing 64.0, tail 42.0, exp. culmen 9.4, depth 8.2, tarsus 13.6, middle .. toe minus claw 9.9. Deppe. Locality - Oaxaca. No. 6531. Collection - Berlin. Wing 66.0, tail 45.0, exp. culmen 9.3, depth 7.7, tarsus 13.0, middle toe minus claw 9.6. Deppe. Locality - Mexico. No. 6532. Collection.- Berlin. Wing 65.0, tail 43.0, exp. culmen 9.6, depth 7.6, tarsus 13.3, middle toe minus claw 9.5. Deppe.. Locality -— Mexico. Mounted irds in fair cmmdition, the first and last in badly abraded plumage. No. 6531 being in fresh (ie-probably late fall or early winter) plumage. Light mottling of green in nape & back of all. Stresemann has selected 6531 as the type. All are males. F. melanoxantha N. Mas Mexico 653. Gr. ve Sack Deppe. Stressmenn stlreved Thef/type is the only bird with 4 rectrices on each side marked with white - the others having 3. Examined at Berlin on August 25, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem Pe) 1 in a ek et v aM ae pe yh n i i is 4 a “ - Alt oF eee Wi ir. im \ ' a t " j / a a». : ee —— ere =A ig AD ate Spizella a trogularis atrogularis (Cabanis) Spinites atrogularis Cabanis Type No. 6141. Collection - Berlin, Wing 63.5, tail 65.0, exp. culmen 7.7, depth 5.8, tarsus 18.6, middle toe minus claw 12.0. Aschenborn. Locality - Mexico F. atrogularis n. Emberiza Shattucki Audub? Mexico 6141 Aschenborn. Mounted bird in fair condition, an adult male by plumage. Plumage abraded as though taken in late summer or early fall. Type examined by me at Berlin, Auge 25, ee The color is dark, like Pace Coast races z gre a: Wee? Ae J.Van Rossem en, Pe Te a oo. ee | eu Wap eel Th ay ene oe f shoal Lan ork A B55 Go me 4 | pe retanseere or Sid PeTO lO are Teme de diet trantesh inion Pasian are" Hy 14 a). s, 4 om eit ne Rae ait ONT Biteaky aint eit Boo sy & meh aie pa arene ‘ ay at ; >» Dos mn - ra -* 7 s a ; mils ry See i WoLa DO LLoy a shel Lia oni a ae oe , aon Al anet da Be Ay Pe S4sF adhs ge os saw “a . Veh BOL a e = 1, BOs “aTOVCGALGh. «Valea WHAD GUILIN 80) ri — ae wit ae be eo ¢ et ©& #34! 80". +] “hy? 2c Oe eeverarre.% Seyprvvena as! mth) Ba fh ; é alviianodaw A sii oe a ) aan Pe ayo -i% eine *ist mk 0° id Badmuelt! i peel Gh tain EBuOE 4a-itieid <8 alee. | sez eciantigg ed a ata 2s (9 YW eatin ma ext? «chee i YlrES eee Me md H ua0oS .dat axitu 3 tileo oft ° eel ek sauk 4 ay Sateen Se eonapestaamieanes’ Pye | ir Spizella passerina pinedtorum Salv. Spizella pinetorum Salvin Type No. 1885.12.14.949. Collection - B.M. Wing 68.0, tail 58.0, exp. culmen 9.6, depth 6.0, tarsus 17.2, middle toe minus claw 11.7, Salvin. Date March 1862. Locality - Pine ridge of Poctum Guat. Three labels, the oldest one Spizella pinetorum o On reverse Pine ridge of Poctun BeGoAs, tab. 27 March, 1862 824 The Salv. — Godman Museum label On reverse Mas. Spizella-pinetorum Salv. 6 Figd.B.C.A. Tab.27 1862. Pine ridge of Poctun, nS Fil Sen, SOL OR Guatemala. 0. Salvin 824. B. M. red type tag, Spizella pinetorum Salv. On reverse 1885.12.14.949 3 Salvin, p. 3.s. 1863, p. Salvin-Godman 189. collection. Loc. Pine ridges of Peten, ~ Guatemala. Skin in fair condition, showing well the racial characters of broadly black forehead, heavy black nuchal streaks and dark coloration throughout. Examined at London Sept. 9, 1933. A. Je Van Rossem * Spodiornis uniformis Haplospiza uniformis Scl. & Salv. Type No. 1885.12.14.687. Collection B.M. Wing 73.5, tail 46.0, exp. culmen 12.6, depth 8.0, tarsus 19.0, middle toe minus claw 14.6. DeOca Date 1872. Locality Jalapa, South Mexico. Three tags— oldest aS & G Mus. tag. Haplospiza uniformis on reverse Jalapa, Se Mexico. (typ.) BeC.A. Tab. 27 Le72 de Oca. Next a newer S. & G tag repeating the data on the face & reverse. Brit. Mus. No. 85.12.14.687, added. Third — red type tag with citation & transcription of data. Skin in’fair condition - an adult male in slightly abraded plumage. Examined at London - Sept. 9, 1933. Ae Je Van Rossem . = if . \ —— - i ial ie y , no id 1, iy - - < ! 7 ; pi is 7 oo aw © ky i i - oh ; ’ , Sporophila morelleti morelleti (Bonaparte) No. 18249 Cat. no. 85. Collection Paris’ Mus. Locality "In Ppéten, Amer. Centrale." This bird examined by me at Paris 7/27/1933. Mounted and in good condition. . On the bottom of the stand is written "Spermophila Moreletti Bp. In Péten, (Amer. centrale) par M. Morelet [sic] 1849 Cat. no. 85. | Spermophila moreleti [sic] Puch. (type) Type de la description du Pce. Ch. Bonaparte". Ae Je Van Rossem Sporophila torqueela Bp. Spermophila albitorquis Sharpe Type No. 85.2.10.121. Collection - B.M. Wing 57.0, tail 48.0, exp. culmen 9.1, depth 7.3, tarsus 14.8, middle toe minus claw12.8 od Locality — Mexico. Two tags - one EB Mus. :P. Le Scelater on reverse Mexico Warwick 625..bs08 Cat. G5 .2e10-121, Red type tag with citation and the note "Mexico purchased by Dr.P. L. Sclater from Warwick & by the Museum from Dr. Sclater inl8&5." Skin evidently never mounted plumage fresh. Plumage of lower back, upper tail covert & edging of wing strongly olivaceous. Collar should be described as "prokenly complete" on the hindneck. Examined by me at London September 7, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem the ma) of ain a) Bs) Sate _ . a , — ines Awl ated? bison Bbc iz) AR ah? MOPS colt oISt Oi S68. se ie eh Al ae bi etree ma Pie Sie. we «lt h-" = iA eet, af ain) WED Base are nh 7 2h~ 7 ~~ | i a KN ok RAS COND om 6 Os BDL o oelicnl's ~ - Te My Wes Cuc wineah oy ited 7 eo i Diets ch - aad * @00n of? Loe wiliae te-or Or gee ad hag | acd ped S iisbrand gest satel «twit x bee notuar’ i of ih ise® Seteles wtih Bert ieee anew)? Wy cteiy bs fama enya Yioaenlye fibste ? Se Grids Sarevor Chad qu .sised Gowel to epeny La? MousaAV LO Yaris gale 1 ied ate ae. hal Ptonel od- bluads satted a: 9 7 jz cnpeetioett out se a a pi 1 ,) FOMCuSGES Noha sh am “a poataoxd. . roeh ial cle: oA Sporophila torqueala Bonaparte Spermophila torqueala Bonaparte Type Sporophila ochropyga Cabanis Type & Cotypes No. 6481. Collection — Berlin. Wing 57.5, tail 50.0, exp. culmen 8.0, depth 7.5, tarsus 15.2, middle toe minus claw 11.6, Locality - Mexjico. F. torqueala Bp. N [this spec. type of both "species" ] Mas. Mexico 6481 Aschenborn Mounted bird in faircondition —- an adult male in slightly abraded plumage. Examined Auge 25, 1933. No. 6483. Collection - Berlin. Wing 55.5, tail 46.0, exp. culmen 8.3, depth 8.2, tarsus 15.3, middle toe minus claw 11.7. Deppe. Date - Gad. "Mexico". Cotype. No. 6484. Collection - Berlin. Wing 51.0, tail 45.0, expe culmen 9.0, tarsus 15.0, middle toe minus claw 11.0. Deppe. 2 ad. Locality — C Cuernavoca. Cotype. Properly speaking all three are cotypes of ochropyga. Examined by me at Berlin Aug. 25, 1933. Ae J. Van Rossem a & ah {Orage 6 a iy _ en NE i j 4 Stelgidopteryx ruficollis fulvipennis Sclater Stelgidopteryx fulvipennis Type (Sclater No. SL. Sede 99s Collection- BM. Wing 92.0, tail 44.0, [juv.] de Oca. Locality Jalapa [Vera Cruz]. One tag — Mus. P. L. Sclater ~ oon reverse Stelgidopteryx fulvipennis 842 5215.90 Type of Cotype fulvipennis sel. Pedeoe 1S59 Jalapa de Oca. 250 alot AsGalpe coy Skin in fair condition in new fresh juvenile plumage. Primary quills still partly sheathed showing it to be the resident form. There are several other - even younger - juveniles in the B.M. from Jalgpa, including a nestling. All these birds (including the type) have the sides more extensively colored, with consequent restriction of ventral white, as compared With U. S. serripennis. Type examined at London Sept. 11, 1933. A. J» Van Rossem Synallaxis erythrothorax erythrothorax Sclater Synallaxis erythrothorax Sclater Type No. 89.5.20-211. Collection - B.M. Wing 56.5, tail 62.0, worn to stub, culmen 14.3, no sex. tarsus 21.5, middle toe minus claw14.0. Parzudakdi. Date 1853. Locality -— Honduras. Two tags -— e Mus. P. L. Sclater Synallaxis erythrothorax OFla Of Cat 1853 89.5.20.211 Honduas Parzudakei second the Brit. Mus. Type tag. Skin in poor condition, body & wing wear average, but tail worn to stub. Plumage dirty, but racial characters perfectly apparent. 9/15/33. 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