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
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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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
.’’