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 marianae mellori Mathews Corvus marianae mellori Mathews, 1912a: 443 ( South Australia ). Now Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 . See Mathews, 1926: 390–402 ; Hartert, 1929a: 53 ; Mathews, 1930: 894–895 ; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 276– 277 ; Rowley, 1967 ; 1970: 50–53 ; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 611 ; and dos Anjos, 2009: 634 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 674602 , male, collected on Angas Plains , 35.21S , 139.00E ( USBGN , 1957), South Australia , Australia , on 31 December 1901 , by Edwin Ashby (no. 290). From the Mathews Collection (3724, not 5724) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that his type was from South Australia , gave inclusive wing measurements, 326–330 mm , without stating the sex, and noted that the feather bases were gray. He also gave his catalog number of the holotype as 5724, but this was a typographical error, the correct number being 3724. (The entry at no. 5724 is a specimen of Neochmia phaeton .) Hartert (1929a: 53) did not catch this error in Mathews’ catalog number. Rowley (1967) elevated this form to full species status and gave measurements of the holotype : wing 326 mm , bill 54 mm , tarsus 62 mm . Schodde and Mason (1999: 611) and dos Anjos (2009: 634) accepted species status for C. mellori . Corvus marianae halmaturinus is a synonym of mellori (see below) and was described on the same page. Rowley (1970: 50) served as first revisor when he chose mellori to have priority over halmaturinus . [A second specimen of mellori , AMNH 674489, cataloged by Mathews as no. 3723, ‘‘ Corvus coronoides ,’’ also a male, was collected on 30 December 1901 on Angas Plains. This specimen was identified in the AMNH catalog as Corvus bennetti but is a raven with gray feather bases. It was collected by Edwin Ashby and identified as Corvus coronoides by him. I measure the wing as 318 mm , bill 50 mm , tarsus, 57 mm , which fall within the measurements given by Rowley (1970: 51) for males of mellori from inland New South Wales and South Australia . This topotype is retained with the types .]