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It is, however, convenient to treat as cotypes of so large a bird only those 

 from the restricted type locality, and I therefore list none but Nos. 46057 

 and 70905, the only Saint Michael skins now to be found in the museum. 

 Corvus carnivorus, "Bar tram" Baird 



in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9 : xlii, 

 559 (in key), 560, 1858. 

 =Corvus corax sinuatus Wagler. See Oberholser, Ohio Journ. Sci. 



18:219, 1918. 

 5186. Adult male. Fort Randall, Gregory County, South Dakota (not 



Kansas). October 18, 1856. Collected by Ferdinand V. Hayden. 

 No. 5186 is but one of a series of 10 cotypes (see Baird's list, op. cit., 

 p. 562) . Ridgway (Birds of North and Middle America 3: 260, 1904) has 

 by implication restricted the type locality to "coast New Jersey," but since 

 Baird's name was really based upon material from west of the Mississippi 

 River, Oberholser's restriction to Fort Randall {loc. cit.) is clearly preferable. 

 No. 5186 was Baird's only skin from Fort Randall. 

 Corvus corax europhilus Oberholser 



Ohio Journ. Sci. 18 (6) : 215, April 1918. 

 =Corvus corax principalis Ridgway^ sinuatus Wagler. See Willett, Auk 



58:248, 1941. 

 260039. Adult male. Ardell, Cullman County, Alabama. April 4, 1915. 

 Collected by Luther J. Goldman. Original number 211. Received 

 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Corvus cryptoleucus Couch 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7 (2) : 66 (not earlier than Apr. 

 25), 1854. 

 4118. Adult female. Charco Escondido, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. 

 March 1853. Collected by Darius N. Couch. Original number 82. 

 C[orvus]. americanus hesperis Ridgway 



Manual of North American Birds, p. 362, September 1887. 

 =Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis Ridgway. See A.O.U. Checklist of 

 North American birds, ed. 4, p. 227, 1931. 



94976. Adult female. Fort Klamath, Klamath County, Oregon. March 

 26, 1883. Collected by Charles E. Bendire. Original number 453. 



94977. Adult male. Fort Klamath, Klamath County, Oregon. April 8, 

 1883. Collected by Charles E. Bendire. Original number 467. 



Ridgway based this race upon an unknown number of specimens from 

 "Western United States, north to Washington Territory (Puget Sound), 

 Idaho, Montana, etc., south to northern Mexico, east to Rocky Mountains." 

 Since no particular example was mentioned, all must be considered cotypes, 

 and Ridgway's implication that the type came from Fort Klamath (Birds of 

 North and Middle America 3: 272, 1904) amounts to no more than a restric- 



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