Pica, MS

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2009, The type specimens of Corvidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrocitta vagabunda, Zootaxa 2149 (1), pp. 1-49 : 8

P. [Pica] Morio ̔ MS Lichtenstein’ Wagler, 1829 : col. 751

TL: Mexico; restricted to Jalapa [= Jalapa Enríquez; 19°34’N, 96°54’W], Veracruz ( Stresemann, 1954 a: 89).

Now Cyanocorax morio morio ( Wagler, 1829) . See Sharpe 1877: 139, Stresemann 1954 a: 89, Blake & Vaurie 1962: 227. Treated as monotypic in Madge & Burn 1999: 94. Dickinson 2003: 507 included the species in Cyanocorax .

LECTOTYPE: ZMB 1527. [No sex or age given]. Loc.: Xalapa [Jalapa, Veracruz]. Date : [not given; Stresemann 1954 a: 89 cited it from Lichtenstein MS as ̔ January 1825 ’]. Coll.: Graf von Sack & Deppe. [Ex, Mus, Meise MS].

PARALECTOTYPES: ZMB 1524. Female. Loc.: Valle Real. Date: [not given]. Coll.: Deppe. [Ex, Mus]. ZMB 1525 [specimen missing]. Male. Loc.: Valle Real. Date: [not given]. Coll.: Deppe. [Ex, A/R]. ZMB 1526 [specimen missing]. [No sex or age given]. Loc.: Alvarado [Veracruz]. Date: [not given; Stresemann 1954 a: 89 cited it from Lichtenstein MS as ̔ December 1824 ’]. Coll.: Deppe. [Ex, A/R].

COMMENTS: Stresemann (1954 a: 89) designated ZMB 1527 as lectotype. It is assumed that Stresemann, in 1954, still would have seen specimen ZMB 1526, now lost, as he referred to it in his publication. For an itinerary of Deppe’s travel see Stresemann (1954 a: 86–88).