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.