Adriaan Joseph van Rossem

Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (born December 17, 1892 in Chicago , Illinois , † September 4, 1949 , in Los Angeles , California ) was an American ornithologist .

Live and act

His father Adriaan Cornelis van Rossem (1865–1895) married Josephine Williams (1873–) on November 11, 1891. From this marriage another son named Walter Johannes (1894-) was born in addition to Adriaan Joseph. The father was a respected man in the municipal and business circles of Rotterdam and the Dutch East Indies , who eventually moved to Chicago via London to do international business. The maternal grandfather Joseph Williams from Goderich was also a successful businessman who earned his living with wood, manufacturing goods and shipping across the Great Lakes . In August 1894 his father's health deteriorated so much that he first returned to Holland and Switzerland for treatment. Finally he died on February 6, 1895 in Leysin-sur-Aigle .

For this reason, the mother initially returned to Canada with her two young children . In September 1895 she finally moved to California and built a house in Pasadena that had a beautiful view of the Arroyo Secco. This is where the children grew up and attended public and private schools before Adriaan Joseph began studying at the Throop Polytechnic Institute . In 1918 he married Grace Burr Coolidge (1888-1972), from whom he divorced in 1934. The sons Donald Richard and Adriaan Peter (1922-) emerged from the marriage. In 1934 he married Florence S. Stevenson, who died in 1944. This was followed by another marriage to Dorothy Sanderson, who died in 1946.

Scientific work

Joseph Grinnell (1877–1939) awakened an interest in natural history in the young van Rossem in 1903. When van Rossem published an article on the sulfur tyrant ( Pitangus sulphuratus ) in El Salvador in 1914 , Grinnell described it as excellent in a letter to van Rossem. His first research trips outside the Pasadena area took him in April 1909 together with James Benjamin Dixon (1886–1978) to the Coronado Islands , in the winter of 1910/11 to the area around the Salton Sea and in spring 1911 together with Alfred Brazier Howell (1886 –1961) to the island of Santa Cruz . From these trips the decision arose to collect in El Salvador. Here he stayed from February 10th to August 20th in 1912. The trip marked the beginning of his lifelong interest in tropical avifauna. In the meantime van Rossem had built a good reputation as a taxidermist and field researcher. John Eugene Law (1877–1931) commissioned him to collect for him in the Chiricahua Mountains from October 15, 1914 to June 5, 1915 . This resulted in an extraordinary harvest, which initially ended up in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology , but was eventually transferred to Virginia by Laura Beatty Law Bailey. Since Law and van Rossem could not agree on the amount of the payment for his services, no publication appeared on this collection. The conflict with Law, which was waged in various forms, shaped van Rossem's dealings with other ornithologists from southern California.

From 1915 to 1917 he worked in the mining and real estate business in Sierra City , Sierra Nevada . During this time, his real passion - collecting - fell a little short, and yet he prepared around 300 bellows in that time. Together with Chester Converse Lamb (1882-1965) he worked in 1917 for the B. F Goodrich Company in a mobile office in road construction and as a supervisor. In April 1917, he and his brother were enlisted in the United States Army . This was followed by training in San Diego and Fort Lewis . In November he attended officers' school and completed his military service in Georgia . On June 5, 1918, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant and in November 1919 to lieutenant . He served as the commander of the machine gun company until May 1919, when he finally resigned as a reservist and returned to California.

During this time his association with Donald Ryder Dickey (1887-1932) began. Dickey followed his passion during this time and amassed a collection of 50,000 vertebrates. Van Rossem worked for 13 years as an assistant for the so-called Dickey Institute . The cooperation between the two was very fruitful and culminated in the award of the William Brewster Medal for their work The birds of El Salvador in 1939. The work actually came only from the pen of van Rossem, but he wanted his mentor Dickey the honor do not deny co-authorship.

This creative period also included publications on the plumage of the black tern ( Chlidonias niger ), a study on songbammers ( Melospiza melodia ) on the Santa Barbara Islands and the Coronado Islands , an investigation of the pygmy nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ) or critical comments on the Willow- yellow throat ( Geothlypis trichas ) in the southwest on the Pacific coast .

During the same period van Rossem carried out several research trips. So he visited southern California, Baja California , southern Nevada , Sonora and El Salvador . Together with Alden Holmes Miller (1906-1965) he visited Buena Vista Lake in California in 1922 . In 1925 he toured El Salvador again with Miller and Ruben Arthur Stirton (1901–1966). Here he taught the two young scientists hunting and preparation techniques.

In 1928 he was accepted at Occidental College in Los Angeles . He went through a three-year training in fine arts and improved his language skills. A course in zoology was also part of the training. In 1948 he received an honorary doctorate in science from the college.

After Dickey's death, his collection was temporarily housed in the California Institute of Technology and their future was uncertain. Financing was on shaky ground due to the difficult economic situation. The situation eased somewhat, as support came from Clinton Gilbert Abbott (1881-1946) from the San Diego Natural History Museum . Some projects were supported by Margrave Masauyi Hachisuka (1903-1953), who stayed for some time in southern California. Dicky's widow hardly supported van Rossem. At the endeavor of Loye Holmes Miller (1874–1970), a collaboration was established and the collection was transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1940 . The exhibits were placed in the Clark Library and van Rossem was given a position as university curator in charge of the Dickey collection. He later became a senior museum zoologist. Since 1946 he also worked as a lecturer in zoology, which gave him the opportunity to participate in further training for advanced students to a limited extent.

After his death in 1949, the valuable collection of around 60,000 exhibits was moved to a fireproof building on the university campus in Westwood . Here his successor Thomas Raymond Howell (1924–2004) took care of the collection.

Between 1930 and 1940 van Rossem's research focus shifted to northwest Mexico. This led to his second major work, A Distributional Survey of the Birds of Sonora, Mexico . The inspiration for this work goes back to the large collection of bird skins from Sonora, which Dickey had acquired in 1929 from John Thomas Wright . Between 1930 and 1932 van Rossem visited the municipality of Guaymas and the islands of Sonora near the coast. In 1937 a trip followed that took him all over this Mexican state. Even after the work was published, he was drawn to this area again and again until 1948. He was often accompanied by Loye Miller.

In an effort to revise the taxonomy of Mexican and Central American birds, he visited Europe, and in particular the Natural History Museum , in 1933 . In 1938 he returned to Europe to attend the 9th International Ornithological Congress in Rouen . From the first visit to Europe with further research at the Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology , the article Critical Notes on Middle American Birds emerged , which dealt with the classification of Central American birds and contained insightful analyzes of the collection of William Brewster . He also examined the collection of Marson Abbott Frazar (1860-1925), but it proved to be unreliable because the collector had prepared the bellows with unsuitable means and thus falsified the original color of the plumage. Among his weaker publications is Descriptions of twenty-one new races of Fringillidae and Icteridae from Mexico and Guatemala , for which he has also been heavily criticized. In 1939 he had the opportunity to travel to Europe again to pick up the Guggenheim scholarship . The trip was shortened by the outbreak of war, but nevertheless he insisted on visiting Paris, Brussels, Leiden and some cities in Germany as well as London.

Birds of the Charleston Mountains, Nevada and A Synopsis of the Savannah Sparrows of Northwestern Mexico are certainly among his most important writings from a time when his main focus was on his work on the avifauna of Sonora . Both deal with geographical and ecological aspects. In his last creative phase he dealt with the screech owls ( Megascops ) of Sonora, where he worked very closely with Loye Miller. His manuscript was abruptly interrupted by his death at an early stage and was therefore processed by Alden and Loye Miller in their article Geographic variation of the screech owls of the deserts of western north america .

Memberships

In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and was inducted into its governing body in 1946. In 1944 he served as President of the South Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club and served on the Board of Directors after that tenure. In 1937 he was elected a corresponding member of the Sociedad de Biología de México .

Dedication names

Ludlow Griscom dedicated a subspecies of the brow motmot ( Eumomota superciliosa vanrossemi ) to him in 1929 , Robert Thomas Moore 1932 a subspecies of the brown apex motmot ( Momotus mexicanus vanrossemi ), Donald Ryder Dickey 1929 a subspecies of the Cayenneralle ( Aramides cajaneus vanrossemi ), Griffing Bancroft (1879 -1955) 1929 a subspecies of Tern ( Gelochelidon nilotica vanrossemi ), Allan Robert Phillips 1986 a subspecies of Cabaniszaunkönigs ( Cantorchilus modestus vanrossemi ) and 1991 a subspecies of Zitronenflankenvireos ( Vireo flavoviridis vanrossemi ), Pierce Brodkorb 1944, a subspecies of the white reins mosquito catcher ( Polioptila albiloris vanrossemi ).

First descriptions by Adriaan Joseph van Rossem

Van Rossem described numerous subspecies that were new to science. On some articles he worked with Dickey, Arthur Holmes Howell (1882-1940) and Hachisuka. Chronologically, the subspecies include:

• Coast mountain grouse ( Dendragapus fuliginosus howardi ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1923
• Rust-wood bunting ( Aimophila ruficeps obscura ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1923
• Brown back clarino (Myadestes occidentalis oberholseri) Dickey & van Rossem , 1925
• Ocher-bellied pipratyrann ( Mionectes oleagineus obscurus ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1925)
• Red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus nyaritensis ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1925
• Western gull ( Larus occidentalis wymani ) Dickey & Van Rossem , 1925
• Belt pigeon ( Patagioenas fasciata letonai ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1926)
• Blue-ringed pigeon ( Leptotila verreauxi bangsi ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1926
• American Warbler ( Basileuterus lachrymosus schistaceus ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1926)
• Red Egret ( Egretta rufescens dickeyi ) ( van Rossem , 1926)
• Red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus mailliardorum ) van Rossem , 1926
• Acacia wren ( Thryophilus pleurostictus lateralis ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1927)
• Acorn woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus lineatus ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1927)
• American Warbler ( Basileuterus lachrymosus schistaceus ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1926)
• Rust-backed hammer ( Aimophila rufescens pectoralis ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1927
• Golden Oriole ( Icterus pustulatus pustuloides ) Van Rossem , 1927
• Single-colored jay ( Aphelocoma unicolor griscomi ) van Rossem , 1928
• Larval Warbler ( Myioborus miniatus connectens ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1928
• Mexico nightjar ( Antrostomus arizonae vermiculatus ) ( Dickey & van Rossem , 1928)
• Red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus littoralis ) Howell & van Rossem , 1928
• Red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus mearnsi ) Howell & van Rossem , 1928
• Song quail ( Dactylortyx thoracicus salvadoranus ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1928
• White-breasted swift ( Aeronautes saxatalis nigrior ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1928
• Yellow-rumped Attila Tyrant ( Attila spadiceus salvadorensis ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1929
• Green-throated nymph ( Lampornis viridipallens nubivagus ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1929
• Rust-browed wren ( Troglodytes rufociliatus nannoides ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1929
• Ruby-Spotted Wood Warbler ( Leiothlypis ruficapilla ridgwayi ) ( van Rossem , 1929)
• Dwarf nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea melanotis ) van Rossem , 1929
• American bittern (Ixobrychus exilis pullus) van Rossem , 1930
• Multi-cheeked wren ( Pheugopedius felix sonorae ) ( van Rossem , 1930)
• Eichhorn devil ( Piaya cayana Extima ) van Rossem , 1930
• Crested quail ( Colinus cristatus panamensis ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1930
• California bunting ( Passerculus rostratus atratus ) van Rossem , 1930
• Black-throated sparrow ( Amphispiza bilineata cana ) van Rossem , 1930
• Black-throated sparrow ( Amphispiza bilineata tortugae ) van Rossem , 1930
• Mexican leek arassari ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus volcanius ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1930
• European red-throated warbler ( Sialia sialis meridionalis ) Dickey & van Rossem , 1930
• Red-headed Masked Tyrant ( Myiozetetes similis primulus ) van Rossem , 1930
• Red-billed pigeon ( Patagioenas flavirostris restricta ) ( van Rossem , 1930)
• Palmer mockingbird ( Toxostoma palmeri insularum ) van Rossem , 1930
• Willow- yellow throat ( Geothlypis trichas chryseola ) van Rossem , 1930
• Desert gold woodpecker ( Colaptes chrysoides tenebrosus ) van Rossem , 1930
• Andean treecreeper ( Certhia americana leucosticta ) van Rossem , 1931
• Gray saltator ( Saltator coerulescens brevicaudus ) van Rossem , 1931
• California mosquito catcher ( Polioptila californica pontilis ) van Rossem , 1931
• Junko ( Junco hyemalis mutabilis ) van Rossem , 1931
• Black-tailed mosquito catcher ( Polioptila melanura lucida ) van Rossem , 1931
• Fleckeneule ( Megascops Trichopsis mesamericanus ) ( van Rossem , 1932)
• Red Cardinal ( Cardinalis cardinalis townsendi ) ( van Rossem , 1932)
• Black-tailed mosquito catcher ( Polioptila melanura curtata ) van Rossem , 1932
• Rust-naped ground hammer ( Kieneria kieneri grisior ) van Rossem , 1933
• White- fronted vireo ( Vireo plumbeus montanus ) van Rossem , 1933
• Acacia wren ( Thryophilus pleurostictus oblitus ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Blue mosquito catcher ( Polioptila caerulea deppei ) van Rossem , 1934
• Blood tangar ( Piranga bidentata citrea ) van Rossem , 1934
• Brown jay ( Cyanocorax morio palliatus ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Brown-backed bunting ( Kieneria fusca perpallida ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Brown-backed hamster ( Kieneria fusca texana ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Spot basic bunting ( Pipilo maculatus griseipygius ) van Rossem 1934
• Five-striped bunting ( Amphispiza quinquestriata septentrionalis ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Yellow-breasted Moorhen ( Hapalocrex flaviventer woodi ) van Rossem , 1934
• Yellow-headed Corecracker ( Pheucticus chrysopeplus dilutus ) van Rossem , 1934
• Goldbelly Vireo ( Vireo hypochryseus nitidus ) van Rossem , 1934
• Green-blue raven ( Cyanocorax luxuosus centralis ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Green-blue raven ( Cyanocorax luxuosus maya ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Green-blue raven ( Cyanocorax luxuosus cozumelae ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Copper Trogon ( Trogon elegans canescens ) van Rossem , 1934
• Mexico nightjar ( Antrostomus arizonae setosus ) van Rossem , 1934
• Moon tour pigeon ( Claravis mondetoura inca ) van Rossem , 1934
• Moon tour pigeon ( Claravis mondetoura ochoterena ) van Rossem , 1934
• Rust-back hammer ( Aimophila ruficeps simulans ) van Rossem , 1934
• Red-headed front bird ( Psarocolius wagleri ridgwayi ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Ruby Tyrant ( Pyrocephalus rubinus flammeus ) van Rossem , 1934
• Narrow-billed cardinal ( Cardinalis sinuatus fulvescens ) ( van Rossem , 1934)
• Multicolored finch ( Passerina versicolor dickeyae ) van Rossem , 1934
• White- necked lazy bird ( Notharchus hyperrhynchus cryptoleucus ) van Rossem , 1934
• White- fronted vireo ( Vireo plumbeus pinicolus ) van Rossem , 1934
• Golden Warbler ( Setophaga petechia rhizophorae ) ( van Rossem , 1935)
• California root bammer ( Kieneria crissalis eremophilus ) ( van Rossem , 1935)
• Roadside Hawk ( Rupornis magnirostris petulans ) van Rossem , 1935
• Larval Warbler ( Myioborus miniatus hellmayri ) van Rossem , 1936
• Pacific Flycatcher ( Myiarchus nuttingi flavidior ) van Rossem , 1936
• Mountain quail ( Oreortyx pictus eremophilus ) van Rossem , 1937
• Gray-capped woodpecker ( Colaptes auricularis sonoriensis ) van Rossem & Hachisuka , 1937
• Ridgway pygmy owl ( Glaucidium ridgwayi cactorum ) van Rossem , 1937
• Black- headed Grebe ( Tachybaptus dominicus bangsi ) ( van Rossem & Hachisuka , 1937)
• White- naped entityra ( Tityra semifasciata hannumi ) van Rossem & Hachisuka , 1937
• Lemon flank vireo ( Vireo flavoviridis hypoleucos ) van Rossem & Hachisuka , 1937
• Azure finch ( Passerina caerulea deltarhyncha ) ( van Rossem , 1938)
• Spruce siskin ( Spinus pinus perplexus ) ( van Rossem , 1938)
• Spotted bunting ( Pipilo maculatus chiapensis ) van Rossem , 1938
• Grasammer ( Passerculus sandwichensis wetmorei ) van Rossem , 1938
• Goshawk ( Accipiter gentilis apache ) van Rossem , 1938
• Collar ground hammer ( Pipilo ocai brunnescens ) van Rossem , 1938
• Collared ground hammer ( Pipilo ocai guerrerensis ) van Rossem , 1938
• Rose throat ( Pachyramphus aglaiae gravis ) ( van Rossem , 1938)
• Black-headed trupial ( Icterus graduacauda dickeyae ) van Rossem , 1938
• Blackwing troupial ( Icterus chrysater mayensis ) van Rossem , 1938
• Black-headed trupial ( Icterus graduacauda nayaritensis ) van Rossem , 1938
• Black-eared bush tit ( Psaltriparus melanotis dimorphicus ) van Rossem & Hachisuka , 1938
• Striped bunting ( Oriturus superciliosus palliatus ) ( van Rossem , 1938)
• White-bellied wren ( Uropsila leucogastra australis ) ( van Rossem , 1938)
• Cinnamon-bellied Amazonia ( Amazilia rutila diluta ) van Rossem , 1938
• Aleutian aalk ( Ptychoramphus aleuticus australis ) van Rossem , 1939
• Corner-tailed cattle ( Accipiter striatus suttoni ) van Rossem , 1939
• Yellow-breasted warbler ( Icteria virens tropicalis ) van Rossem , 1939
• Lancet tree climber ( Lepidocolaptes souleyetii guerrerensis ) van Rossem , 1939
• Jewelery Waldsänger ( Oreothlypis superciliosa palliata ) ( van Rossem , 1939)
• Quail ( Callipepla californica canfieldae ) ( van Rossem , 1939)
• White- fronted vireo ( Vireo plumbeus repetens ) van Rossem , 1939
• Dwarf nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea flavinucha) van Rossem , 1939
• Sulfur Masked Tyrant ( Pitangus sulphuratus texanus ) van Rossem , 1940
• White-throated wood warbler ( Granatellus venustus melanotis ) van Rossem , 1940
• Winter night swallow ( Phalaenoptilus nuttallii adustus ) van Rossem , 1941
• Rock wren ( Salpinctes obsoletus costaricensis ) van Rossem , 1941
• Blue-cap organist ( Euphonia elegantissima rileyi ) ( van Rossem , 1942)
• Rust-backed hammer ( Aimophila rufescens antonensis ) van Rossem , 1942
• Rock wren ( Salpinctes obsoletus tenuirostris ) van Rossem , 1943
• Goldfinch ( spinus tristis jewetti ) ( van Rossem , 1943)
• Bullocktrupial ( Icterus bullockii parvus ) van Rossem , 1945
• Black-throated sparrow ( Amphispiza bilineata carmenae ) van Rossem , 1945
• Rust-backed hammer ( Aimophila ruficeps rupicola ) van Rossem , 1946
• Rotsteiß-Mockingbird ( Toxostoma crissale coloradense ) van Rossem , 1946
• Black-chin bush hammer ( Kieneria aberti dumeticola ) ( van Rossem , 1946)
• Rust-back hammer ( Aimophila ruficeps sanctorum ) van Rossem , 1947
• Beldingammer ( Passerculus guttatus magdalenae ) van Rossem , 1947
• Chinstrap ( Baeolophus wollweberi caliginosus ) van Rossem , 1947
• Chinstrap Tit ( Baeolophus wollweberi phillipsi ) van Rossem , 1947
• Hermit eagle ( Buteogallus solitarius sheffleri ) ( van Rossem , 1948)

Works (selection)

• Some Unrecorded Species From Los Coronados Islands, Mexico . In: The Condor . tape 11 , no. 6 , 1909, pp. 208 (English, online [PDF; 80 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• Winter Birds of the Salton Sea Region . In: The Condor . tape 13 , no. 4 , 1911, pp. 129–137 (English, online [PDF; 625 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• with Alfred Brazier Howell: Further Notes from Santa Cruz Island . In: The Condor . tape 13 , no. 6 , 1911, pp. 208–210 (English, online [PDF; 222 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• Notes on the Derby Flycatcher . In: The Condor . tape 16 , no. 1 , 1914, p. 11–13 (English, online [PDF; 250 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• A Study of Some Plumages of the Black Tern . In: The Condor . tape 25 , no. 6 , 1923, pp. 208–213 (English, online [PDF; 499 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• A Survey of the Song Sparrows of the Santa Barbara Islands . In: The Condor . tape 26 , no. 6 , 1924, pp. 217–220 (English, online [PDF; 285 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: A Revisionary Study of the Western Gull . In: The Condor . tape 27 , no. 4 , 1925, pp. 162–164 (English, online [PDF; 231 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• The Lower California Reddish Egret . In: The Condor . tape 28 , no. 5 , 1926, pp. 246 (English, online [PDF; 81 kB ; accessed on March 20, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: Two new pigeons from Salvador . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 39 , 1926, pp. 109–110 ( online [accessed April 11, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: Seven new birds from Salvador . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 40 , 1927, pp. 1-7 ( online [accessed March 24, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: A New Race of the White-Throated Swift From Central America . In: The Condor . tape 30 , no. 3 , 1928, pp. 193 (English, online [PDF; 96 kB ; accessed on April 12, 2015]).
• with Arthur Holmes Howell: A Study of the Red-Winged Blackbirds of Southeastern United States . In: The Auk . tape 45 , no. 2 , 1928, p. 155–163 (English, online [PDF; 379 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• The races of Sitta pygmaea Vigors . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 42 , 1929, pp. 175–177 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• A new name necessary for the Calaveras Warbler . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 42 , 1929, pp. 179 ( online [accessed March 24, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: The Races of Lampornis virldipallens (Bourcier and Mulsant) . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 42 , 1929, pp. 209–212 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: Adriaan Joseph van Rossem . In: The Ibis (=  12 ). tape 5 , no. 2 , 1929, p. 264-266 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1929.tb08759.x .
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: A New Bluebird From El Salvador . In: The Condor . tape 32 , no. 1 , 1930, p. 69–70 (English, online [PDF; 191 kB ; accessed on February 23, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: The Identity of Ortyx Leucopogon Lesson . In: The Condor . tape 32 , no. 1 , 1930, p. 72–73 (English, online [PDF; 188 kB ; accessed on April 8, 2015]).
• Critical Notes on Some Yellowthroats of the Pacific Southwest . In: The Condor . tape 32 , no. 6 , 1930, p. 297–300 (English, online [PDF; 237 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).
• A new race of gilded flicker from Sonora . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 6 , no. 5 , 1930, p. 171–172 ( online [accessed March 21, 2015]).
• New Sonora Races of Toxostoma and Pheugopedius . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 6 , no. 11 , 1930, p. 207-208 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• A new Least Bittern from Sonora . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 6 , no. 15 , 1930, p. 227-228 ( online [accessed March 25, 2015]).
• Descriptions of new birds from the Mountains of Southern Nevada . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 6 , no. 22 , 1931, p. 327-332 ( online [accessed March 20, 2015]).
• The Avifauna of Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico, with description of four new races . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 7 , no. 30 , 1932, pp. 119–150 ( online [accessed March 31, 2015]).
• Notes on some types of North American Birds . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 7 , no. 30 , 1934, pp. 347-362 ( online [accessed April 9, 2015]).
• Critical Notes on Middle American Birds . In: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . tape 77 , 1934, pp. 387-490 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• The Mangrove Warbler of North-Western Mexico . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 8 , no. 10 , 1935, pp. 67-68 ( online [accessed April 4, 2015]).
• Birds of the Charleston Mountains, Nevada . In: Pacific Coast Avifauna . tape 24 , 1936, pp. 1–16 (English, online [PDF; 4.7 MB ; accessed on March 19, 2015]).

• A Review of the Races of the Mountain Quail . In: The Condor . tape 39 , no. 1 , 1937, p. 20–24 (English, online [PDF; 400 kB ; accessed on April 9, 2015]).
• together with Masauyi Hachisuka: The yellow-green vireo of northwestern Mexico . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 50 , 1937, pp. 159-160 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• together with Masauyi Hachisuka: A northern race of Tityra semifasciata . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 50 , 1937, pp. 197–198 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• together with Masauyi Hachisuka: A further report on birds from Sonora, Mexico, with descriptions of two new races . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 8 , no. 23 , 1937, pp. 323–334 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• with Donald Ryder Dickey: The birds of El Salvador . In: Publication Field Museum of Natural History (=  Zoological series ). tape 23 , no. 406 , 1938 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• A Mexican Race of the Goshawk (Accipter gentilis (Lineaus)) . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 51 , 1938, p. 99-100 ( online [accessed April 6, 2015]).
• with Masauyi Hachisuka: A new race of Cliff Swallow from Northwestern Mexico . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 9 , no. 2 , 1938, p. 5–6 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• Descriptions of twenty-one new races of Fringillidae and Icteridae from Mexico and Guatemala . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 58 , 1938, pp. 124-138 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• with Masauyi Hachisuka: A dimorphic subspecies from Northwestern Mexico . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 9 , no. 3 , 1938, pp. 7–8 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• Description of three new birds from Western Mexico . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 9 , no. 4 , 1938, pp. 9–12 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• A Colorado Desert Race of Summer Tanager . In: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History . tape 9 , no. 5 , 1938, pp. 13-14 ( online [accessed March 19, 2015]).
• Notes on some Mexican and Central American Wrens of the Genera Heleodytes, Troglodytes, and Nannocgilus; and four new races . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 59 , no. 416 , 1938, pp. 10-15 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Four new races of Sittidae and Certhiidae from Mexico . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 52 , 1939, pp. 3–6 ( online [accessed March 20, 2015]).
• An Overlooked Race of the California Quail . In: The Auk . tape 56 , no. 1 , 1939, p. 68–69 (English, online [PDF; 112 kB ; accessed on April 3, 2015]).
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• Three new races of birds from Central America . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 54 , 1941, pp. 171–174 ( online [accessed April 3, 2015]).
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Individual evidence

1. ^ Adriaan Cornelis van Rossem
2. ↑ Alden Holmes Miller, p. 20.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alden Holmes Miller, p. 24.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Alden Holmes Miller, p. 27.
5. ^ Alden Holmes Miller, p. 21.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alden Holmes Miller, p. 22.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Alden Holmes Miller, p. 23.
8. ↑ A Study of Some Plumages of the Black Tern (1923).
9. ^ A Survey of the Song Sparrows of the Santa Barbara Islands (1924).
10. ^ The races of Sitta pygmaea Vigors (1929).
11. ^ Critical Notes on Some Yellowthroats of the Pacific Southwest (1930).
12. ↑ Alden Holmes Miller, p. 25.
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Alden Holmes Miller, p. 26.
14. ^ Ludlow Griscom, p. 56.
15. ^ Robert Thomas Moore, p. 109.
16. ↑ Donald Ryder Dickey, p. 33.
17. ↑ Griffing Bancroft, Sr., S. 284th
18. ^ Allan Robert Phillips (1986), p. 163.
19. ^ Allan Robert Phillips (1991), p. 209.
20. ↑ Pierce Brodkorb, p. 312.

Remarks

1. ↑ Laura Beatty Law Bailey was the wife of John Eugene Law. After his death, she married Harold Harris Bailey (1878–1962), another ornithologist.