Corvus cyanopogon Wied

Corvus cyanopogon Wied, 1821: 137 (Ribeirâo da Cajaseira, Bahia).

Now Cyanocorax cyanopogon (Wied, 1821) . See Allen, 1889: 227; Hellmayr, 1934: 23; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 223; Dickinson, 2003: 506; and dos Anjos, 2009: 584.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 6773, juvenile female, ‘‘ Brazilien’ ’; AMNH 6774, male, ‘‘Brasilien, Provincia da Bahia,’’ Brazil. From the Maximilian Collection .

COMMENTS: In his original description, Wied noted that many specimens were shot, for the species was not shy. Allen (1889: 227) listed these two specimens as syntypes of C. cyanopogon . They were formerly mounted. There is also a syntype in RMNH (Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 64).

Hellmayr (1934: 23) identified the type locality as the Rio Cachoeira, one of the headwaters of the Rio Ilhéos, Bahia.