Corvus coronoides cecilae Mathews

Corvus coronoides cecilae Mathews, 1912a: 442 (North-West Australia).

Now Corvus orru cecilae Mathews, 1912 . See Hartert, 1929a 48–54; Mathews, 1927: 407– 412; 1930: 896; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 276; Rowley, 1970; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 606– 607; and dos Anjos, 2009: 633.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674568, male, collected at Napier Broome Bay, 14.02S, 126.37E (USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 30 July 1910, by G.F. Hill (no. 646). From the Mathews Collection (no. 6211) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range as ‘‘North-West Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Hill’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1927: pl. 596, opp. p. 407, text p. 408; see also pl. 597, opp. p. 412) where it is confirmed as the type of cecilae . Mathews’ measurements written on the reverse of Hill’s label read: wing 356 mm, bill 60, tarsus 66; Mathews (1927: 408) measurements of type: wing 355, bill 60, tarsus 70. (I measure wing 354, bill from base 60, tarsus 65).