Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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2014
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journal article
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Corvus cyanopogon
Wied
Corvus cyanopogon
Wied, 1821: 137
(Ribeirâo da Cajaseira,
Bahia
).
Now
Cyanocorax cyanopogon
(
Wied, 1821
)
. See
Allen, 1889: 227
;
Hellmayr, 1934: 23
;
Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 223
;
Dickinson, 2003: 506
; and
dos Anjos, 2009: 584
.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 6773
, juvenile female, ‘‘
Brazilien’
’;
AMNH 6774
, male, ‘‘Brasilien,
Provincia
da
Bahia
,’’
Brazil
.
From
the
Maximilian Collection
.
COMMENTS: In his original description, Wied noted that many specimens were shot, for the species was not shy.
Allen (1889: 227)
listed these two specimens as
syntypes
of
C. cyanopogon
. They were formerly mounted. There is also a
syntype
in RMNH (
Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 64
).
Hellmayr (1934: 23)
identified the
type
locality as the Rio Cachoeira, one of the headwaters of the Rio Ilhéos,
Bahia
.