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 text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 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.