Corvus corax hispanus Hartert and Kleinschmidt

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 : 133

Corvus corax hispanus Hartert and Kleinschmidt

Corvus corax hispanus Hartert and Kleinschmidt, 1901: 45 (Aguilas bei Murcia).

Now Corvus corax hispanus Hartert and Kleinschmidt, 1901 . See Hartert, 1903d: 5; Vaurie, 1954b: 22; 1959: 194–195; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 280–281; Madge and Burn, 1994: 179–181; Cramp et al., 1994: 206–223; Dickinson, 2003: 514–515; and dos Anjos, 2009: 638–639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674952 , adult male, collected at Aguilas , 37.25N, 01.35W (Times Atlas ), Spain, on 2 May 1898, from the Gray Collection. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert and Kleinschmidt designated as the type of hispanus the only male specimen collected on 2 May 1898 and noted that they had an additional three adults and one young. The paratypes, all from the Gray Collection, are: Aguilas, AMNH 674951 , male, 11 May 1899 ; AMNH 674953 , juvenile male, 29 May 1898 ; AMNH 674954 , female, 30 May 1899 ; AMNH 674955 , female, 2 May 1898 .

Following Vaurie (1954b: 22), most authors synonymized hispanus with nominate corax until Cramp et al. (1994: 206) again considered it valid. Subsequent authors have agreed with Cramp et al.