Corvus coronoides cecilae Mathews

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 : 128

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).