Corcorax melanoramphos subniger 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 : 60-61

Corcorax melanoramphos subniger Mathews

Corcorax melanoramphos subniger Mathews, 1912a: 446 (Victoria) .

Now Corcorax melanorhamphos melanorhamphos ( Vieillot, 1817) . See Hartert, 1929: 54; Mayr, 1962a: 160; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 616–617; Dickinson, 2003: 515; Rowley and Russell, 2009a: 284, and Schodde et al., 2013: 238– 244.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673752 , adult female, collected at Ringwood , 37.49S, 145.14E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, on 25 March 1910, by T.H. Tregellas (no. 54). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5060) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as Victoria. The following specimen is a paratype: Bendigo, AMNH 673755 (Mathews no. 1327), female, 30 March 1907, collected by Tregellas. AMNH 673753, female, Bayswater, 16 April 1907, collected by C.F. Cole, may also be a paratype, but I did not find it listed in Mathews’ catalog. Other specimens from Victoria were undated, collected after the description, or never in the Mathews Collection.

Schodde et al. (2013: 238–244) have submitted an application to the ICZN to conserve melanorhamphos as the correct spelling of this species name based on its prevailing usage. Until a decision is published by the Commission, this spelling is to be maintained (ICZN, 1999: 96, Art. 82.1)