Corvus sylvestris C.L. Brehm

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 : 133

Corvus sylvestris C.L. Brehm

Corvus sylvestris C.L. Brehm, 1831: 163 (Er bewohnt die Wälder, Ebenen oder die Vorhölzer gebirgiger Gegenden Deutschlands).

Now Corvus corax corax Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert and Kleinschmidt, 1901: 40; Hartert, 1918a: 7; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 280; Dickinson, 2003: 514–515; and dos Anjos, 2009: 638– 639.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 674868 , adult male, collected at Renthendorf , 50.48N, 11.58E ( USBGN, 1959), Germany, on 15 May 1817. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Hartert and Kleinschmidt (1901: 40) listed the specimen labeled sylvestris by Brehm and collected on 15 May 1817 at Rethendorf as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of sylvestris . It is number ‘‘1a’’ on their list and so annotated on the reverse of Brehm’s label. The following specimens labeled sylvestris by Brehm and listed and annotated by Hartert and Kleinschmidt (1901: 40) are in AMNH and may be considered paralectotypes: AMNH 674866 (no. 1c), juvenile male, Vallis Rodana on label, 10 May 1816 (not 28 May 1818); AMNH 674869 (no. 1b), juvenile female, Renthendorf, 10 May 1818; AMNH 674871 (no. 1d), juvenile female, Vallis Orlana on label, 28 May 1818; AMNH 674873 (no. 1f), nestling male, Vallis Rodana on label, 4 May 1818. AMNH 674872 and 674874 were exchanged to ZFMK, and one or both of them may be paralectotypes.