Corvus coronoides perplexus Mathews, 1912

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 : 131

Corvus coronoides perplexus Mathews

Corvus coronoides perplexus Mathews, 1912a: 442 (Perth, West Australia).

Now Corvus coronoides perplexus Mathews, 1912 . See Mathews, 1926: 390–402; Hartert, 1929a: 53; Mathews, 1930: 894–895; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 276–277; Rowley, 1970; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 612–613; and dos Anjos, 2009: 633–634.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674592 , sex unknown, Perth, 31.56S. 115.50E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3721) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave a range of wing measurements, 314–327, for perplexus in the original description. This subspecies was usually considered a synonym of C. c. coronoides until Schodde and Mason (1999: 613–614) recognized perplexus as the name applicable to the southwestern Australian population. This was followed by dos Anjos (2009: 633–634).

[The topotype sent to AMNH by ANWC (CSIRO) is now AMNH 814045 (ANWC no. 17053), female, collected in the Helena Valley, Perth, Western Australia, on 29 March 1970, by M.E. Griffiths.]