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 Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Corvus caurinus Baird Corvus caurinus Baird (in Baird et al.), 1858: 569 ( Washington Territory and northwestern Coast ). Now Corvus caurinus Baird, 1858 . See Hellmayr, 1934: 5 ; Deignan, 1961: 329 ; American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998: 450 ; Verbeek and Butler, 1999 ; Dickinson, 2003: 513 ; and dos Anjos, 2009: 626 . SYNTYPE : AMNH 42372 , Sex?, collected at Fort Steilacoom, near Tacoma, 47.16N , 122.30W (Times Atlas ), Pierce County, Washington , on 25 April 1856 , by George Suckley (no. 322). From the George N. Lawrence Collection (no. 428). COMMENTS: This specimen was presented to George N. Lawrence by the Smithsonian Institution and is one of the syntypes of C. caurinus named by Baird in Baird et al. (1858) . It was based on a type series of eight specimens, four of which are in USNM ; the disposition of the other four is listed by Deignan (1961: 329) . In addition to the original label, this syntype bears Lawrence’s label annotated ‘‘Presented by Smith’n Institution,’’ an AMNH label printed ‘‘Lawrence Collection,’’ and an AMNH type label marked ‘‘Cotype of Corvus caurinus .’’