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 cornix minos
Meinertzhagen
Corvus cornix minos
Meinertzhagen, 1920: 19
(
Candia
,
Crete
).
Now
Corvus corone sharpii
Oates, 1889
. See
Meinertzhagen, 1926: 109
;
Hartert, 1928: 189
;
Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 272
;
Madge and Burn, 1994: 159–161
;
Shirihai, 1996: 573–575
;
Dickinson, 2003: 513
;
Dickinson et al., 2004c: 95– 102
; and
dos Anjos, 2009: 630–631
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 675132
, adult male, collected in the
Candia District
,
2000 ft
,
Crete
,
Greece
, on 13
June
(not May) 1920, by Richard Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Meinertzhagen
based his description of
minos
on four males and one female from
Crete
and noted that the type, a male, collected at
Candia, Crete
, on 13.v.20, was in the Rothschild Collection. While the month of collection of the
holotype
was given as
May
by
Meinertzhagen
, on the original label the month is clearly given as ‘‘6.’’
In
addition to the
holotype
, three
paratypes
also came to
AMNH
with the
Rothschild Collection
:
Candia District
,
AMNH 675133
,
675134
, male and female,
29 June 1920
;
Halmyos
,
AMNH 675135
, male,
9 June 1920
, all collected by
Meinertzhagen.
See
C. c. judaeus
for discussion of nomenclature.