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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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
.]