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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Corvus meeki
Rothschild
Corvus meeki
Rothschild, 1904: 21
(
Bougainville
Island).
Now
Corvus meeki
Rothschild, 1904
. See
Hartert, 1919: 125
;
Mayr, 1955: 37–38
;
Vaurie, 1958: 8– 10
;
Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 266
;
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 401
;
Dickinson, 2003: 513
;
Hadden, 2004: 232–233
; and
dos Anjos, 2009: 621–622
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 673987
, adult male, collected on
Bougainville
Island
,
North Solomons Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
2 May 1904
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. A.1719).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild gave Meek’s unique field number of the
holotype
and noted that he had a second male specimen. The
paratype
is
AMNH 673986
, adult male, collected on Bougainville on
6 May 1904
, by Meek (no. A.1748).
Rothschild and Hartert (1905: 268)
listed these two specimens in their report on Meek’s entire collection made in the
Solomon Islands
in 1904. Other specimens were collected later.
This population has been variously considered a full species, part of a superspecies, or as a subspecies of
Corvus woodfordi
. Most recent authors have considered it a full species.