Corvus cornix minos Meinertzhagen

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, 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, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 125-126

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.