276 BULLETIJS- 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The greater part of Mexico; north to Sonora (Alamos; Camoa; 

 Altata) and Tamaulipas (Linares; Alta Mira), south to San Luis 

 Potosi (Valles) and Territory of Tepic (San Bias; Acaponeta; Navar- 

 rete) and Colinia (Manzanilla). 



[Corvus'] mexicanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 375 (based on Mexican Crow 

 Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, i, 396).— LatrajM, Index Orn., i, 1790, 164.— 

 Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 13, no. 6219. 



Corvus mexicanus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 1; Journ. fi'ir Orn., 

 1863,56 (reprint). — Schlegel, Bijdr. Dierk. Amsterd., ii, 1859, 11, pi. 1, 

 fig. 25; ]Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 25. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 37, fig. 11. — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., ii, 1874, 283 (Mazatlan; Colima; habits). — SALVixand Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 488.— Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 782 

 (Tampico, Tamaulipas). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896,630 

 (Alta M^ira, Tamaulipas).— Nelson, N. Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1898, 50 (Tres 

 Marias Islands; straggler). — Lantz, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 

 222 (Altata, Sinaloa). 



C\orvus'\ mexicanus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 233.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 363. 



Coj'one me.ricanffl Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 36. 



CORVUS PALMARUM Wiirttemberg. 

 PALM CROW. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Entirely black, strongly glossed with violet 

 on upper parts, the under parts faintly glossed with the same; edges 

 of alulee, primary coverts, and primaries glossed with violet-bluish; 

 bill, legs, and feet black; iris brown? 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 368. 5; wing, 260.5; tail, 149.5; exposed 

 culmen, 51; depth of bill at nostrils, 16; tarsus, 51.5; middle toe, 29.5. 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



Corvus palmarum Paul von Wurttemberg, Erste Reise Nordlich. Amerika, 1835, 



68, footnote (Cibao Mts., Santo Domingo). 

 Corvus solitarius Paul von WtJRTTEMBERG, Naumannia, ii, Zweites heft, 1852, 55 



(Loma de San .Juan, "Haiti," i. e., Santo Domingo?). — Bonaparte, Compt. 



Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 829. — Schlegel, Bijdr. Dierk. Amsterd., ii, 1859, pi. 1, 



fig. 17; Mus. Pays.-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 24 (Santo Domingo). — Cory, Birds 



Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 75 (Gantier, Haiti); Auk., iii, 1886, 229; Birds 

 • W. I., 1889, 116; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 14, 110, 131, 146 (Haiti; Santo 



Domingo).— Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Pub. 10, Orn. Ser. i, no. 1, 1896, 17 



(Maniel, Santo Domingo; notes). 

 \_Corvus'] solitarius Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 13, no. 6216 (Haiti). — Cory, List 



Birds West Ind., 1885, 14. 

 Microcorax solitarius Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 49 (Sauto Domingo). 

 Corvus jamaicensis (not of Gmelin) Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1857, 232 



(Santo Domingo).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1886, 94 (Santo 



Domingo) . 



CORVUS MINUTUS Gundlach. 

 LESSER CUBAN CROW. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Similar in coloration to C. ainericanus, but 

 very much smaller; first primary shorter than secondaries, nasal plumes 



