Corvus marianae halmaturinus Mathews

Corvus marianae halmaturinus Mathews, 1912a: 443 (Kangaroo Island, 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, 1970: 50–53; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 611; and dos Anjos, 2009: 634.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674594, juvenile male, collected on Kangaroo Island, 35.50S, 137.06E (USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, on 20 October 1905. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3725) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the wing measurement of 291 mm. In his catalog, Mathews added that the specimen was from Middle River on Kangaroo Island. Hartert (1929a: 53) further added that the type was a juvenile male with the wing feathers not fully grown, collected by Edwin Ashby.

Rowley (1970: 50) acted as first revisor by choosing C. marianae mellori to have priority over C. marianae halmaturinus, described on the same page. Schodde and Mason (1999: 611) and dos Anjos (2009: 634) agreed.

[ANWC (CSIRO) presented a topotype to AMNH, now AMNH 814046 (ANWC no. 6022), immature female?, collected on Kangaroo Island, on 26 August 1966, by R. Coles, prepared by H. Dimpel. I measure the wing 295 mm, bill 44, tarsus 58. This topotype is retained with the types.]