Correction of Doubtful Records
Journal
Condor
Volume
5
Issue
5 (September-October)
Year
1903
Pages
135
Section
From Field and Study
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Correction of Doubful Records
Believing the suggestion made by Mr. Joseph Grinnell in THE CONDOR (Vol. IV, No. 1) that all errors in identification are best promptly corrected I have gone carefully over all my published writings and append the following list of doubtful records.
- Dendroica occidentalis -- Osprey, Vol. III, No. 4. Possibly D. nigrescens; no skin taken as the Guardian of Yosemite Valley prohibits the use of firearms.
- Oroscoptes montanus.
- Catherpes mexicanus conspersus -- Osprey, Vol. V, No. 1. Out of the 43 species recorded from Sur River the two above species are the only ones I find to have been admitted on insufficient evidence.
- Tachycineta thalassina -- Osprey, Vol. V, No. 8. Skins taken the following year (1902) proved this to be Tachycineta bicolor.
