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Family CORVIDAE: Crows, Magpies, Jays 



Genus CORVUS Linnaeus 



Corvus leptonyx Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 105, "pi. xxix," 1848. 

 =Corvus corax leptonyx Peale. See Hartert, Vogel der palaarktischen 



Fauna 1 (1) : 6 (footnote 1), 1903. 

 15745. Adult female. Near Funchal, Madeira Island, Madeira Islands, 

 eastern Atlantic Ocean off Morocco. September 1838. U.S. Exploring 

 Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Material available to me in Washington does not permit me definitely to 

 allocate this name, of which the type was a mere straggler to Madeira. 

 Hartert {loc. cit.) has suggested that it may represent any one of three 

 subspecies more recently named: tingitanus Irby, 1874, canariensis Hartert 

 and Kleinschmidt, 1901, or hispanus Hartert and Kleinschmidt, 1901. 

 Corvus grebnitskii Stejneger 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 2 : 97, Apr. 10, 1884. 

 =Corvus corax kamtschaticus Dybowski. See Hartert and Steinbacher, 

 Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, Erganzungsband, p. 4, 1932. 



92759. Adult male. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 

 Bering Sea. December 12, 1882. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 

 Original number 1799. 



92760. Adult female. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 

 Bering Sea. December 25, 1882. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 

 Original number 1817. 



C[orvus]. corax principalis Ridgway 



Manual North American birds, p. 361, September 1887. 

 =Corvus corax principalis Ridgway. See Oberholser, Ohio Journ. Sci. 



18:214, 1918. 

 46057. Adult (sex not indicated). Saint Michael, on the southern shore 

 of Norton Sound, western Alaska. March 1, 1866. Collected by 

 Charles Pease. Original number 33. 

 70905. Adult male. Saint Michael, on the southern shore of Norton 

 Sound, western Alaska. December 29, 1874. Collected by Lucien 

 McS. Turner. Original number 93. 

 Ridgway based this race upon an unknown number of specimens from 

 "Northern North America, from Greenland to Alaska, south to British 

 Columbia, Canada, New Brunswick, etc." Since no particular example 

 was mentioned, all must be considered cotypes, and Ridgway's implication 

 that the type came from Saint Michael (Birds of North and Middle America 

 3: 261, 1904) amounts to no more than a restriction of type locality. Par- 

 enthetically, it may be noted that, still earlier, No. 101149, a male from Fort 

 Chimo, Ungava, had been set aside by Ridgway as the type! 



