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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Corvus marianae tasmanicus
Mathews
Corvus marianae tasmanicus
Mathews, 1912a: 443
(
Tasmania
)
.
Now
Corvus tasmanicus tasmanicus
Mathews, 1912
. See
Mathews, 1926: 390–402
;
Hartert, 1929a: 54
;
Mathews, 1930: 895
;
Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 277
;
Rowley, 1970
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 609–610
; and
dos Anjos, 2009: 634–635
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 674707
, unsexed [male], collected in
Tasmania
,
Australia
, in 1876, from the collection of Walter Chamberlain. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3719) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
and its bill measurement of
67 mm
. Besides the Chamberlain label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, it also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for
Mathews (1926
, pl. 590, opp. p. 390; text p. 391) where it is confirmed as the type of
tasmanicus
. On page 391, Mathews gave the following measurements: wing
362 mm
, bill
61 mm
, tarsus 72. Mathews’ measurements written on the reverse of Chamberlain’s label: wing 358, bill 67, tarsus 70. I measure wing 360, bill 66, tarsus 70.
Rowley (1970: 32
, 53–55) elevated
tasmanicus
to species level, and
Schodde and Mason (1999: 609–610)
and
dos Anjos (2009: 634–635)
agreed.